Toasting-glasses of the Kit-Cat Club, 1703 (3)

Addison, Joseph
William Hogarth, The Kit Kat Club, Lotherton Hall, Leeds Museums and Galleries
William Hogarth, The Kit Kat Club, Lotherton Hall, Leeds Museums and Galleries

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Written on the Toasting-Glasses of the Kit-Kat Club

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Toasting
Poetry

On The Lady Manchester

While haughty Gallia's dames, that pread
O'er their pale cheeks, an artful red,
Beheld this beauteous stranger there
In native charms, divinely fair;
Confusion in their looks they show'd;
And with unborrow'd blushes glow'd.

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Taken from Joseph Addison, The Poetical Works of Joseph Addison. With the Life of the Author. Cooke's edition. Embellished with superb engravings. Printed for C. Cooke, No. 17, Paternoster-Row: and sold by all the booksellers in Great-Britain and Ireland (London), 1796, p. 146. Full text by ECCO. Translated by Denis Diderot in L'Enclyclopédie, tome 16, p. 383 ("Toilette"). See full volume from Bibliothèque Mazarine.