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THE TOWN;
ITS
MEMORABLE CHARACTERS AND EVENTS.
BY
LEIGH HUNT.
ST. PAUL'S TO ST. JAMES'S.
WITH FORTY-FIVE ILLUSTRATION S.
VOLUME THE SECOND.
PUBL
LONDON:
SMITH, ELDER, AND CO., 65. CORNHILL.
1848.
5.0.3
CONTENTS
OF
THE SECOND VOLUME.
-
CHAPTER VI.
Martin Folkes.
Great Queen Street. Former fashionable Houses there. - Lewis
and Miss Pope, the Comedians.
Sir Godfrey
Kneller and his Vanity. Dr. Radcliffe. Lord Herbert of
Cherbury. - Nuisance of Whetstone Park. The Three Dukes
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.
Carey Street and
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
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CHAPTER VII.
DRURY LANE, AND THE TWO THEATRES IN DRURY LANE AND
COVENT GARDEN.
Craven House.
Donne and his Vision. - Lord Craven and the
Queen of Bohemia. — Nell Gwynn. - Drury Lane Theatre.-
Its Antiquity, different Eras, and Rebuildings.
Theatre of Dryden, Wycherly, Farquhar, Steele, Garrick, and
Sheridan. Old Drury in the time of Charles II. - A Visit to
it. Pepys and his Theatrical Gossip, with Notes. Hart and
Mohun. Goodman. Nell Gwynn.
Dramatic Taste of that
Wilks and Cibber.
- A Colonel enamoured of Cibber's
Her singular Position in Society. -
Age. Booth. Artificial Tragedy.
Bullock and Penkethman.
Wig. Mrs. Oldfield.
Not the Flavia of the Tatler.
probably not true.
Pope's Account of her last Words
Declamatory Acting. Lively Account of
Improvement of Stage
King. Mrs. Pritchard.—Mrs. Clive.
Contradictory Characters
Macklin. Woodward.
of him by Davies and Churchill.
Audience. . Dr. Johnson at the Theatre. Churchill a great Pit
Critic. His Rosciad. His Picture of Mossop.·
and Mr. Suett. - 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.
-Pope, Philips, and Garth. Armstrong. - Boswell's Intro-
Ghost Story there. -
Covent Garden. The Church. Car, Earl of Somerset.
Butler, Southern, Eastcourt, Sir Robert Strange.
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. The Four Indian Kings. -
and its Mug-Houses. Prior's Resort there.
- Long Acre
- Newport Street.