Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-01-22
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And here enters Pepys. Chatty. gossppy, not
over delicate aud rather selfish old Pepys-tne
Paul PRIV of his ace. And yet what would we DO
without thee quaint. old chronlcler! W nat noie
aud corner that thou ddst not poke thy curious
nose into from the Castlenaines bondoir TO the
bear garden in Southwark What unwritteh
history would there be but for thy diary so en-
ter in the name Of grace. Win not overly
bold step he joins the chief group. and there Is a
recoenion Dryden and he were at Cambridge
together aud there is Mr.. Hole, OF his own
college. The discourse is witty and pleasant
P"pv, thinks, and it is good to come liihtf.-
But il is growing ln,e, and he cannot farry Tor he
has TO fetch home his wife. They are now re-
viewing Don Sebastian. all AFFECTIONS to when
the author in his chair parties like one skliiioi III
fence, but notes down, nevertheless, Tor some
future preface and now there appears the spec
taior and the worthy Knight, Sir Roger de Gov.
erly. Addison and the country gentIeInhn' shnI
themselves out of Dryden's box ond become OF
the group.
Bot a shadow falls on the chair empty by the
fire side corner Of the :. Great wits Cohee
House" DRYDEN is no more. A change has
come over the spirit Of the seem. Where you
saw songs and epigrams and satres in the hands
and instead IF the cavis about the turn OF the
expression, the elegance Of the iyleand the like.
the learned now only dispute alb Mt the truth OF
the game" wins is of the past. and :" But
tons" on the opposite side or South side OF Russell
street. is # the present Cato is a triumph and
Addison rules with Pope. "Buttons' Is kept by
one Daniel Buttons, who has been servant IN
the family of the Countess OF Warwick, 10 which
lady ns we know Addison is married Dryden
is dead and the wits and gallants follow ADDISON
his successor. to buttons.
Here let US enter. too, as at Wills OF n worn
out century. Addison, and Steele. and Pope
with Budge Phillips, Carey, Davenant, Gay
Coley Cibber and the rest here meet to dine,
and here to remain sometimes far into the night.
Pope keeps them company for about year. but
il i. found too much for him, it hurts his health,
and he quits it,. 'Tis the pace TINT kill. There
is slight shadow the fortunes of Buttons
now and then this is when Addison and the
Countess have little domestic difference Every
man has some m aanness in his composltions--
Addison wthdraws tho company from Putton's
Mt slch times, but the Spectator and his wife kiss
and make it up, and all goes we'll at Button's
again. Having gazed on the lions within, now
let MS look on the lion without. What mouth.
Not so capacious as that far famed one at We
nice, into which was poured of old the secret in
formation of the dread Council If Three. Here
let into the front of Buttons is the hons head,
with open. ruvenous avs, which shall receive
the papers md correspondence for The Guar
dian" The lions head (lS56.) after hard usage
and many masters, now graces Nohuin Abbey.
Leave we the wits, and cross again tn Bow
street. but few PAGES off. Here lived Edmund
Waller, where he wrote the panegync upon
Cromwell, Grnng Gibbons, the father of Coliey
Clhhcr, Wycherly, the dramatlst. Here Cherries
II visited hm-Dr. johnson. Henry Fielding,
the author of Tom Jones. Hero where the poo
lice Office now stands he resided. and from hence
Tom Jones was given to the world. Moving up
from Russell street, on the wight or East side,
we come to The Cock Celebrated as the house
from which Sedlev, and Buckhurst, and others
outraged ,lccoucy by public exhibition Of their
nudity, The former preaching basphemy from an
omen window to the crowd below. Here snpped
SIR John Coventry on the ight, on which he
was wayluid on his way to home, and his nose
slit to the bone for rejecting on the King. a mo
ton had been made IL the House of Commons to
lay II tax on play houses. The Canst said in OPP
ositiun. "The players were the Kings servants
and part of his pl"asures.' Sir John asked
''Wbether did the Kings pleasure lie, among tho
men or the women that acted!" recollectng the
visits of the King to Moll Davisin Suffolk street
lIaymarket, in which Sir John lived and others.
lie was waynid. and after fighting bravely, was
oisarmed, anl his nose cut To the bone. as the
Kings mark. Over against the Cock, in Bow
SlTttt' hNeu w ycheflp, When ne WAS ~
the ountess of Drogheda. who was terribly
jealous OF him that if he were at any time re-
calling with his friends at the Cock, she would
compel him to leave the windows open,that the
lady might see there was no woman in company
ar she would be in downrg ht rasng condition.
Ia the same lodgings, when he seventy
five years old he married 10 woman who
had loved not wise J, and who promised to be-
come mother. He died ia a few days after, and
his object WAS not attained-tha burdenng the
state descending to his ncphcw-for the second
Mrs. Wycherly had no child.
Crossing Bow street, by Convent Garden Thea
ter,we come to Rose street. About 1850 il is des-
cribrd las Indifferent we-buiit and inhabited"
Now. from end to end Ii may be said to be slew
at Inquty and wretchedBess; narrow and poorly
lighted, bat wide and light enough for the scum
that infe,t its dens. Here, in 1879. DRYDEN was
wnyl, by rutians hired by the notorious Will
mot Earl of Rochester and dangerously wound.
ed. reward Of fifty pounds and a pardon to
principal or accessory were Offered by the King.
Int the perpetrators never discovered al.
though it is now known who was the chief william
The oifense was an Essay on Satire" written
by Lord Mulgrave in which Dryden is said to
have assisted. We can conceive DRYDEN retiring
early from wills" as was his Gu .tom and wal.
king quietly home to Long Acre by Rose street
I'ut Dryden lives, notwithstanding the brutal
attack. and SO does Wilmot, Earl of Rochester.
IN another way. In this street died Samuel But
Ter in 1850; in miserable garnet. poor. neglected
starved. So iickered out the spent brightness of
1ludihras.
stop we by this ruin for minute and we have
nearly made our circuit. never having once been
beyond the cast Of "A ston. from whence we set
cat on our walk from Richardson's Hotel. We
are by the ruins Of Covent Garden Theatre. the
second built on the same SITE The first bo,a