 | Stephen Jones - Biography - 1799 - 456 pages
...recommend him to the public notice for a benefit play, tells us, tîiat he remembered king Charles II. leaning on Tom D'Urfey's shoulder more than once, and humming over a song with !nm.- — Yet at last, to speak in his own words, " after having written more odes than llorare, and... | |
 | Eccentric biography - 1801 - 352 pages
...very humorous account of Mr. D'urfey, tells us that he remembered ting Charles the second leaning upon Tom D'urfey's shoulder more than once, and humming over a song with him. Yet at last, to make use of his own language, — "After having written more odes than Horace, and... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - Dramatists, English - 1812 - 472 pages
...recommend him to the public notice for a benefit play, tells us, that he remembered King Charles II. leaning on Tom D'Urfey's shoulder more than once, and humming over a song with him. He was certainly a very diverting companion, and a cheerful, lionest, good-natured man ; so that he... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1813 - 560 pages
...recommend him to the public notice fora benefitplay, tells us, that he remembered king Charles II. leaning on Tom D'Urfey's shoulder more than once, and humming over a song with him. , He used frequently to reside with the earl of Dorset at Knole ; where a picture of him, painted by... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1813 - 562 pages
...recommend him to the public notice for a benefitplay, tells us, that he remembered king Charles II. leaning on Tom D'Urfey's shoulder more than once, and humming over a song with him. He used frequently to reside with the earl of Dorset at Knole ; where a picture of him, painted by... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1816 - 924 pages
...recommend him to public notice for a benefit play. In this he tells us, that he remembered King Charles II. leaning on Tom D'Urfey's shoulder more than once, and humming over a song with him. He used frequently to reside with the Earl of Dorset at Knole; where a picture of him, painted by Stealth,... | |
 | John Genest - Theater - 1832 - 676 pages
...of the Guardian, and recommends him to the public notice, observing that he remembered King Charles leaning on Tom D'Urfey's shoulder more than once, and humming over a song with him — and that many an honest Gentleman had gotten a reputation in the country by pretending to have... | |
 | Music - 1834 - 358 pages
...with Tom D'Urfoy.' The writer of No. 67 in The Guardian, states, that he ' remembered king Charles II. leaning on Tom D'Urfey's shoulder more than once, and humming over a song with him.' He was a tory of the most decided kind, and ^frequently diverted queen Anne, in the latter part of... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 578 pages
...humourous account of D'Urfey, with a view to recommend him to the public notice for a benefit play, says, " I myself remember King Charles the Second leaning...more than once, and humming over a song with him." Even King William had him one night to sing to him, and Queen Anne gave him fifty guineas for singing... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1837 - 578 pages
...humourous account of D'Urfey, with a view to recommend him to the public notice foe a benefit play, says, " I myself remember King Charles the Second leaning...more than once, and humming over a song with him." Even King William had him one night to sing to him, and Queen Anne gave him fifty guineas for singing... | |
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D'Urfey, with a view to recommend him to the public notice for a benefitplay, tells us, that he remembered king Charles II. leaning on Tom D'Urfey's shoulder more than once, and humming over a song with him. 
