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Hace 5 días · No. 3.—Topham Beauclerk, a brilliant talker and a collector of books, lived at this house from 1772 until 1776. He owes his fame mainly to the fact that he was a friend of Dr. Johnson and a prominent figure in Boswell's Life.
Hace 4 días · Topham Beauclerk quipped that he 'could not conceive a more humiliating situation than to be clapped on the back by Tom Davies', and Johnson, who knew that the book seller had abandoned the stage partly from fear of Charles Churchill's criticism, tempered his fondness for Davies with some contempt: perhaps he also had an inkling that ...
Hace 4 días · He had been an inmate of it for the last seven years of his life. In the same street lived Topham Beauclerk, the wit, politician, and friend of Johnson, of whom it is recorded by Boswell that as he stood one day here gazing on the river below, he lamented in one breath the loss of both.
Hace 4 días · Through Warton Johnson became acquainted with the two Trinity undergraduates, Topham Beauclerk (commoner 1757) and Bennet Langton (commoner 1758), who also figure in Boswell's Life of Dr. Johnson. Among the scholars are John Gilbert (1713), Archbishop of York, and Richard Mant (1795), Bishop of Down, Connor, and Dromore, historian ...
Hace 5 días · Tom Holland and Francesca Amewudah-Rivers are tremulously intense lovers in Jamie Lloyd’s stark, dark take on Shakespeare’s tragedy
Hace 3 días · Siege of Namur. William III (William Henry; Dutch: Willem Hendrik; 4 November 1650 – 8 March 1702), [b] also widely known as William of Orange, was the sovereign Prince of Orange from birth, Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel in the Dutch Republic from the 1670s, and King of England, Ireland, and Scotland from ...
Hace 3 días · Mid Surrey (in 1868) East Surrey is a constituency [n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Claire Coutinho, a Conservative serving as Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero. [2] [3] The seat covers an affluent area in the English county of Surrey . Since its creation in 1918, East Surrey has ...
