| Walter Wilson - 1830 - 558 pages
...by the rearing of this structure, to sport his venom upon the Whigs. " The Kit-Cat Club," says he, " is now grown famous and notorious all over the kingdom...by a noble babe of grace ; and over, or under the foundation-stone, is a plate of silver, on which is graven 'Kit-Cat ' on the one side, and 'Little... | |
| Walter Wilson - 1830 - 558 pages
...by the rearing of this structure, to sport his venom upon the Whigs. " The Kit-Cat Club," says he, " is now grown famous and notorious all over the kingdom...by a noble babe of grace ; and over, or under the foundation-stone, is a plate of silver, on which is graven 'Kit-Cat' on the one side, and 'Little Whig'... | |
| William Chadwick - Biography - 1859 - 482 pages
...much offended at this theatre being a Whig theatre — the production of " the Kit-cat Club, which is now grown famous and notorious all over the kingdom...a temple for their Dagon, the new playhouse in the Hay Market. The foundation was laid with great solemnity by a noble babe of grace. And over or under... | |
| William Chadwick - Biography - 1859 - 504 pages
...over the kingdom , and they have built a temple for their Dagon, the new playhouse in the Hay Market. The foundation was laid with great solemnity by a noble babe of grace. And over or under the foundation-stone is a plate of silver, on which is eugraven Kit-cat on the one side, and little Whig... | |
| Alexander Meyrick Broadley - Crown jewels - 1912 - 208 pages
...beauty, then the celebrated toast, and pride of that party." A satirical Tory wrote : " The Kit Cat Club is now grown famous, and notorious all over the...the new playhouse in the Haymarket, the foundation of which was laid with great solemnity by a noble babe of grace. . . . There was so much zeal showed,... | |
| David Womersley, Paddy Bullard, Abigail Williams - History - 2005 - 388 pages
...Lane. The Tory journalist Charles Leslie describes the new venture in his Rehearsal: The KIT-CAT Clubb is now grown Famous and Notorious, all over the Kingdom....for their Dagon, the new PlayHouse in the Hay-Market . . . :i8 Both the creation of a Whig playhouse and the scale of patronage available to individual... | |
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