… ‘by inch of candle’ 2 in 1662 London, Samuel Pepys recorded the rumpus caused by the novel method of auction: ‘After dinner, we met and went to see sold the Weymouth Successe and Fellowship Hulkes where pleasant to see how backward …
… became an emblem of gentility, sobriety, fellowship and sociable relations to such an extent that, as attested by the dinner register of the Royal Society’s dining club, a gentleman who wished to be accepted as an Honorary Member of the …
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… and Henry Fuseli as well as Joseph Priestley and William Godwin but there is no certainty about how many of Johnson’s dinner parties Blake attended. 10 Blake benefited from the Johnson circle; he met, for example, Thomas Holcroft who …