… certain philosophical and political issues. Riccoboni was a voracious reader of Samuel Richardson , Edward Young, Joseph Addison , and Alexander Pope . In Paris, she also rubbed shoulders with figures such as Richard Burke, David Hume , Adam …
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… his own Piazza Coffee House in 1754. Famed literary regulars in the Covent Garden coffeehouses ranged from Joseph Addison to Samuel Johnson . The midnight revels in Tom’s Coffee House were depicted in a satirical print of around 1735, …