 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 876 pages
...was his rather too eager and obsequious humble servant, f Dick Steele, the editor of the • " Button had been a servant In the Countess of Warwick's family,...Street, about two doors from Covent Garden. Here it was tliat the wits of that time used to assemble. It is snid that when Addison had suffered any vexation... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 914 pages
...was his rather too eager and obsequious humble servant.f Dick Steelc, the editor of the • " Button had been a servant in the Countess of Warwick's family, who, under Ihe patronage of Addison, kept a coffee-house on the soulh side of Russell Street, about two doors... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer - Games - 1889 - 358 pages
...him : — "He studied all morning, then dined at a tavern, and went afterwards to Button's. Button had been a servant in the Countess of Warwick's family,...the wits of that time used to assemble. It is said, when Addison had suffered any vexation from the Countess, he withdrew the company from Button's house.... | |
 | C. J. Barrett - Barn Elms (London, England) - 1889 - 324 pages
...breakfasted. He studied all the morning ; then dined at a tavern, and went afterwards to Button's. "Button had been a servant in the Countess of Warwick's family,...Addison, kept a coffee-house on the south side of Russel Street, about two doors from Covent Garden. Here it was that the wits of that time used to assemble.... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele - 1889 - 416 pages
...Button's coffee-house, Johnson, in his Life of Acldison, writes as follows: "Button had been a servr.nt m the Countess of Warwick's family, who, under the patronage of Addison, kept a coffee- house on the south side of Russell Street, about two doors from Covent Garden. Here it was... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Literary landmarks - 1890 - 240 pages
..."that Addison studied all the morning, then dined at a tavern, and went afterwards to Button's." Button had been a servant in the Countess of Warwick's family,...doors from Covent Garden. Here it was that the wits of the time used to assemble. We are told that when Addison had suffered any vexation from the Countess... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1890 - 474 pages
...wits of that * Spence. — JOHNSON.3 f Ibid* 1 Spence, ed. Singer, p. 151. 2 Vid. supr. vol. ip 424. time used to assemble. It is said, that when Addison...the countess, he withdrew the company from Button's house.1 1 The following list of the portraits of Addison is abridged from Mr. Scharf s Catalogue given... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1891 - 474 pages
...royal house. His palace was "Button's," opposite " Will's." * A quiet opposition, a silent as1 "Button had been a servant in the Countess of Warwick's family,...under the patronage of Addison, kept a coffee-house on sertion of empire, distinguished this great man. Addison's ministers were Budgell, Tickell, Phillips,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1891 - 498 pages
...was " Button's," opposite " Will's." l A quiet opposition, a silent as1 "Button had been a sen-ant in the Countess of Warwick's family, who, under the patronage of Addison, kept a coffee-house on sertion of empire, distinguished this great man. Addison's ministers were Budgell, Tickell, Phillips,... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - London (England) - 1891 - 594 pages
...been given to it as a joke. Button's Coffee-House, so called after Daniel Button, who kept it, stood on the south side of Russell Street, " about two doors from Covent Garden," over against " Tom's." It was established in 1713, when Cato had confirmed the reputation of Addison,... | |
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It is said when Addison had suffered any vexation from the countess, he withdrew the company from Button's house. From the coffee-house he went again to a tavern, where he often sat late, and drank too much wine. 
