Mary Delany [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
… spent some time with Jonathan Swift at his friend and biographer’s, Patrick Delany. At the time, following Hesther Johnson (Stella)’s death, the Dean of Saint Patrick’s Cathedral was often surrounded by Frances Kelly, John Boyle, fifth … also admitted, Lord Lyttleton, William Pulteney – Elizabeth Montagu’s closest companions – Edmund Burke, David Garrick, Samuel Johnson , Samuel Pepys , Horace Walpole , in precise, unbroken semi-circles opposite the fireside, to paraphrase Edward Burney ’s …
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