… him as Adam and Eve welcomed the angel in Milton’s paradise; except that we fed him far better and gave far more elegant parties.’ (Voltaire to Thieriot, 3 November 1737, D1383) Voltaire’s sociable inclinations were given fresh life when he …
… 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 …