English Wits

A. J. A. SYMONS admiration amusing artist asked audience Boswell Bute called character Charles Lamb charm Coleridge critic D. B. WYNDHAM LEWIS delightful dinner Dunciad EDITOR enemies England English Essay eyes famous father feeling genius give honour Hook Hook's House humour ideas Johnson joke King knew Labouchere Lady Lamb Lamb's later laugh letters literary lived London look Lord Lord Byron Mary Mary Russell Mitford mind Mitford nature never North Briton once Oscar Wilde Oxford perhaps person play political poor Pope Pope's reader replied Saki Saki's satire Shakespeare Shaw Shaw's Sheridan Sherry Smith speech spirit story Sydney Smith talk tell theatre Theodore Theodore Hook thing thought Three Mile Cross tion to-day told took truth Voltaire Whigs Whistler Wilde's Wilkes Wilkes's witty woman word writing wrote young