Letter to The Chronicle (1762) [ Concepts ]
… to the chaste & delicate ear of the Q—n? It may be said that a place nearest the Royal House will be assign’d to the Virtue Club, in which the unhallow’d sounds of the beef stake club will be silenced & expire. That would indeed be well, … warm piety, or some Peer of austere chastity may think it necessary to repeat & report what has been said, or sung. When Virtue, & Vice, & Virtuosoship have got an establishment in this situation can it be refused to the independent gentlemen … form the Society in Albermarle Street? Arthurs, which is the great Parent of all these Noble societies, & from whom the virtues & accomplishments of each are derived must certainly have a large area assign’d to it. There with Turrets on its …
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