...is the Taller himself who tells us that "- Will's" is very much changed from what it used to be — "Where you used to see songs, epigrams, and satires in the hands of every one you met, you have now only a pack of cards." About the same time we find complaints that the English...

...promised under the article of Will's Coffee-house. The place, however, changed after Dryden's time : " you used to see songs, epigrams, and satires in the...learned now dispute only about the truth of the game." " In old times, we used to sit upon a play here, after it was acted, but now the entertainment's turned...

...promised under the article of Will's Coffee-house. The place, however, changed after Dryden's time : " you used to see songs, epigrams, and satires in the...learned now dispute only about the truth of the game." " In old times, we used to sit upon a play here, after it was acted, but now the entertainment's turned...

...early Totlers, the house is thus described : This place [Will's] is very much altered since Mr. Dryden frequented it ; where you used to see songs, epigrams, and satires in the hands of «very man you met, you have now only a pack of cards ; and instead of the cavils upon the turn of...

...very much altered since Mr. Dryden frequented it : where you used to see songs, epigrams, and satyrs, in the hands of every man you met, you have now only...learned now dispute only about the truth of the game." And in No. 1C : " We used to sit here in old times in judgment over a game of chess, but the entertainment...

...of the Tatler it is said of Will's coffee-house, " This place is very much altered since Mr. Dryden frequented it. Where you used to see songs, epigrams, and satires, in the hands of every one you met, you have now only a pack of cards." Into these places of public resort the lowest sharpers...

...he complains, " since Mr. Dryden frequented it ; where you us'd to see Songs, Epigrams, and Satyrs in the Hands of every Man you met, you have now only...Learned now dispute only about the Truth of the Game." Still, the most famous men of the time traced their steps to that corner of Bow Street. Dryden had...

...in No. 1 of the " Tatler " (April 12, 1709), says: "This place is very much altered since Mr. Dryden frequented it ; where you used to see songs, epigrams,...learned now dispute only about the truth of the game." Child's. Child's Coffee-house, in St. Paul's Church Yard, was much frequented by the clergy, as well...

...James's Coffee-house.'" The same writer complains that " the place is very much altered since Mr. Dryden frequented it ; where you used to see songs, epigrams...learned now dispute only about the truth of the game." Hence probably the truth of such a couplet as this : — " Rail on, ye triflers, who to ' Will's '...

...of songs, epigrams, and satires, in the hands of the visitors there was a pack of cards ; instead of cavils about the turn of the expression, the elegance of the style, and the like, the learned had disputes only about the game. It was in 1710 — the year in which the first number of the " Spectator...