Papers of the Manchester Literary Club, Vol. 45 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Papers of the Manchester Literary Club, Vol. 45 The Manchester Literary Club´s unbroken history of fifty-six years is a tribute to Manchester´s love of letters, and testimony that successive generations have prized a rich inheritance. The Club, in addition to its solid work, has maintained the tradition of comradeship and cheerfulness. Its model was Johnsonian, and has been closely adhered to both in spirit and in the details of its Monday night proceedings. The many facts that can be adduced in proof of this, combined with the record of what the Club has accomplished, may serve to remind us that Alexander Smith, in his delightful and penetrating essay on Men of Letters, devoted considerable attention to the influence of Club life upon book-lovers and writers. He said: "The race is gregarious; they are visible to us in clumps like primroses; they are brought into neighbourhood, and flash light on each other like gems in a diadem." In proof of this he instanced the geniuses in the dawn of the English drama, such as Greene, Nash, and Marlowe; then the immortal Mermaid company; the famous Lake School; the Symposium of which Burns was the centre; and the Charles Lamb Wednesday parties - with "the hush of a whist table in one corner, the host stuttering puns as he deals the cards,... and what talk there is of Hogarth´s prints, of Izaak Walton, of the old dramatists, of Sir Thomas Browne´s ´Urn Burial,´ with Elia´s quaint humour breaking through every interstice, and flowering in every fissure and cranny of the conversation." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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