Complex sentence: The Ivy Lane Club was a literary and social club founded by Samuel Johnson in the 1740s, meeting in the King's Head, a beefsteak house in Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row, near St Paul's Cathedral, London.
Split into simpler sentences: The Ivy Lane Club was a literary and social club founded by Samuel Johnson in the 1740s. The club met in the King's Head, a beefsteak house in Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row, near St Paul's Cathedral, London.