. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. s isti cervicibus ungues ; Non nisi dilecta pascitur iste fera. Mr. P. Cunningham traces the movements of thisformidable head from Buttons to the Shake-speare Tavern, under Covent Garden Piazza, andthence to Richardsons Hotel, in the same place, Malone tells us that most of the criticisms j from which it was removed to \\oburn Abbey,which Dryden condescended to notice were made being bought by the Duke of Bedford,at his favourite haunt, ^^? ills Coffee-house. The origin and purpose of the lions head above There were
. Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. s isti cervicibus ungues ; Non nisi dilecta pascitur iste fera. Mr. P. Cunningham traces the movements of thisformidable head from Buttons to the Shake-speare Tavern, under Covent Garden Piazza, andthence to Richardsons Hotel, in the same place, Malone tells us that most of the criticisms j from which it was removed to \\oburn Abbey,which Dryden condescended to notice were made being bought by the Duke of Bedford,at his favourite haunt, ^^? ills Coffee-house. The origin and purpose of the lions head above There were other personages, too, whoused to repair to Wills to meettheir friends. Thus, for instance, inPepys Diary, under date October 2,1660, we find the following entry:—At Wills I met Mr. Spicer, andwith him to the abbey to see them atvespers. On the opposite side of RussellStreet to Wills was ButtonsCoffee-house, so called after the manwho established it, in 1712—oneDaniel Button, who had been a servantto Joseph Addison, or rather to hiswife, the Countesii of ^^arwick. If. THE LIONS HEAD ATBlfTTONS, named is thus related in the Guardianof July 9, 1713 : I have, I know nothow, been drawn into tattle of myself,more major urn almost the length of awhole Guardian. I shall therefore fillup the remaining part of it with whatstill relates to my own person and mycorrespondents. Now I would havethem all know that on the 20th instantit is my intention to erect a lions head,in imitation of those I have describedin Venice, through which all the privatecommonwealth is said to pass. Thishead is to open a most wide and \ora- cious mouth, which shall take in suchsecond, it was only second to Wills in its literary ! letters and papers as are conveyed to me by myreputation, which dated from the appearance of correspondents, it being my resolution to have aAddisons Cato, and maintained it till his death, in \ to all such matters as come to my1719. It was here thatAddison used to
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