THE TOWN;

ITS

MEMORABLE CHARACTERS AND EVENTS.

BY

LEIGH HUNT.

ST. PAUL'S TO ST. JAMES'S.

WITH FORTY-FIVE ILLUSTRATIONS.

VOLUME THE SECOND.

LONDON:

SMITH, ELDER, AND CO., 65. CORNHILL.

CONTENTS

OF

THE SECOND VOLUME.

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CHAPTER VI.

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- The Three Dukes

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Great Queen Street. Former fashionable Houses there.. Lewis

and Miss Pope, the Comedians. Martin Folkes. Sir Godfrey

Kneller and his Vanity. Dr. Radcliffe. Lord Herbert of

Cherbury. Nuisance of Whetstone Park.

and the Beadle. Rogues and Vagabonds in the Time of

Charles II. Former Theatres in Vere Street and Portugal

Street. First Appearance of Actresses.- Infamous Deception of

one of them by the Earl of Oxford, - Appearance of an avowed

Impostor on the Stage. Anecdotes of the Wits and fine Ladies

of the Time of Charles, connected with the Theatre in this Quarter.

– Kynaston, Betterton, Nokes, Mrs. Barry, Mrs. Mountford, and

other Performers. Rich. Joe Miller.

Mrs. Chapone.

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Carey Street and

Clare Market. History, and Specimens, of

Orator Henley. Duke Street and Little Wild Street. Anec-

dotes of Dr. Franklin's Residence in those Streets while a Journey-

man Printer

DRURY LANE, AND THE TWO THEATRES IN DRURY LANE AND

Its Antiquity, different Eras, and Rebuildings. The principal

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Theatre of Dryden, Wycherly, Farquhar, Steele, Garrick, and

Sheridan. Old Drury in the time of Charles II. A Visit to

Pepys and his Theatrical Gossip, with Notes. — Hart and

Mohun. Goodman. - Nell Gwynn.

· Dramatic Taste of that

it.

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Age. Booth. - Artificial Tragedy. — Wilks and Cibber.

Bullock and Penkethman. A Colonel enamoured of Cibber's

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Mrs. Oldfield. Her singular Position in Society. -

Not the Flavia of the Tatler. Pope's Account of her last Words

probably not true. Declamatory Acting. Lively Account of

Garrick and Quin by Mr. Cumberland.

Costume. King. — Mrs. Pritchard. -

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- Improvement of Stage

Mrs. Clive. Mrs. Wof-

Barry. Contradictory Characters

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of him by Davies and Churchill.

Pantomime. English Taste in Music.

Actors and Actresses in Social Rank.

Audience. - Dr. Johnson at the Theatre.

Critic. His Rosciad.

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and Mr. Suett.

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His Picture of Mossop.

Early Recollections of a Play-goer

CHAPTER VIII.

Mrs. Jordan

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Bow Street once the Bond Street of London. Fashions at that

Time. Infamous Frolic of Sir Charles Sedley and others.

Wycherly and the Countess of Drogheda. - Tonson the Book-

seller. Fielding. Russell Street. Dryden beaten by hired

Ruffians in Rose Street. His Presidency at Will's Coffee-House.

- Character of that Place. — Addison and Button's Coffee-House.

Boswell's Intro-

- Pope, Philips, and Garth. Armstrong.

duction to Johnson. The Hummums.

Covent Garden. The Church. Car, Earl of Somerset.

Butler, Southern, Eastcourt, Sir Robert Strange. Macklin.

Curious Dialogue with him when past a Century. Dr. Walcot.

Covent Garden Market. Story of Lord Sandwich, Hackman,

and Miss Ray. Henrietta Street. - Mrs. Clive. - James Street.

- Partridge, the Almanack Maker.

Street. Arne and his Father.