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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 14: first weeks in London.—June and July, 1838.—Age, 27. (search)
terally lined with ships, their black hulls in gloomy array, and their masts in lengthening forests. We were landed at London Bridge, and my eve<*> liament; here Poole takes his cheese and salad, and tells stories which would do well in Paul Pry, and redeem the degenerate numbers of Little Peddlington. I have also been nominatedThe recipe is given in Timbs's Club Life of London, Vol. I. pp. 263, 264. the author, you will remember, of that redoubtable punch commemorated in the Quarterly. Poole, John Poole, 1786-1872; author of farces, of which Paul Pry, published in 1825, is the most famous. He died poor and neglected. of Paul Pry memory, sits very qJohn Poole, 1786-1872; author of farces, of which Paul Pry, published in 1825, is the most famous. He died poor and neglected. of Paul Pry memory, sits very quietly, eating moderately and using few but choice words; I have heard him say some very clever things. Forster, of the Examiner, formerly dined there often. Talfourd is a night-bird; he does not appear till midnight or thereabouts. Then a quantity of barristers congregate here, so that I am always sure to find somebody with wh