Note 4 — Chapter VII · CLUB LIFE AT THE “CHEESE”
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“The supper was elegant. Johnson had directed that a magnificent hot apple-pie should make part of it, and this he would have stuck with bay leaves, because, forsooth, Mrs. Lennox had written verses, and, further, he had prepared for her a crown of bays with which, but not till he had invoked the Muses by some ceremonies of his own invention, he encircled her brows.”
The first literary child whose birth was here celebrated was a dreary novel called The Female Quixote, or the Adventures of Arabella.