52 examples of dunton in sentences

John Dunton in his Life says, that Mr. William Bradshaw received from Dr. Midgeley forty shillings a sheet for writing part of the Turkish Spy; but I do not find that he any where mentions Sault as engaged in that work.

Criticism: C.E. Russell's Thomas Chatterton (Moffatt, Yard & Company); Essays, by Watts-Dunton, in Ward's English Poets; by Masson, in Essays Biographical and Critical.

His last thirty years were spent with his friend, the critic and poet, Theodore Watts-Dunton, at Putney on the Thames, a few miles southwest of London.

[Footnote 77: This, as well as many other passages in this work, has been appropriated by John Dunton, the celebrated bookseller, as his own.

See his character of Mr. Samuel Hool, in Dunton's Life and Errors, 8vo, 1705, p. 337.]

I very much hope you will give us an account of Dunton, &c.

This would be John Dunton (1659-1733), the bookseller, and author of The Athenian Gazette, Dunton's Whipping-Post, and scores of pamphlets and satires.

This would be John Dunton (1659-1733), the bookseller, and author of The Athenian Gazette, Dunton's Whipping-Post, and scores of pamphlets and satires.

Under Charles II, Sir Roger L'Estrange issued his Observator (1681), which was a weekly review, not a chronicle; and John Dunton's The Athenian Mercury (1690), is best described as a sort of early "Notes and Queries."

To begin with, experts in anagrams will not fail to notice that the names ALGERNON SWINBURNE and W. ROBERTSON NICOLL contain practically the same number of lettersabsolutely the same if SWINBURNE is spelt without an "e"and that the forenames of both end in "-on," as does also the concluding syllable of WATTS-DUNTON.

He took the place there and then; on his way back to London he stopped at Dunton Green and closed with an eligible couple that had answered his advertisements, and that same evening he succeeded in isolating a sufficient quantity of Herakleophorbia I. to more than justify these engagements.

He was doing nothing at Dunton Green except a little tailoring.

He was the sort of man, as a retired seafaring person living in one of Mr. W.W. Jacobs' cottages at Dunton Green told me, with a guarded significance of manner not uncommon in those parts, who would "get washed up anyhow," and as regards the devouring element was "fit to put a fire out."

Dunton, Mr. Theodore Watts-, 14, 15. Earnshaw, Catherine, 169, 173, 208-229. character of, 212-216, 227.

The land of forgotten men; with front, by W. Herbert Dunton.

showing breeds of fish by S. C. Dunton.

DUNTON, S. C. Tropical fishes for a private aquarium.

by S. C. Dunton.

I refer to John Dunton, whose Life and Errors in the edition in two volumes edited by J.B. Nichols, and published in 1818, is a common book enough in the second-hand shops, and one which may be safely recommended to everyone, except, indeed, to the unfortunate man or woman who is not an adept in the art, craft, or mystery of skipping.

The real John Dunton has not the boundless spirits of the fictitious John Buncle; but in their religious fervour, their passion for flirtation, their tireless egotism, and their love of character-sketching, they greatly resemble one another.

It is this last characteristic that imparts real value to Dunton's book, and makes it, despite its verbiage and tortuosity, throb with human interest.

Most of the 135 booksellers were good men, according to Dunton, but not all. '

There are nearly eleven hundred brief character-sketches in Dunton's book, of all sorts and kinds, but with a preference for bookish people, divines, both of the Establishment and out of it, printers and authors.

See Charles Kelly Warner, Charles, 113 Watts, George Frederick, R.A., 53, 58 et sqq., 164 Watts-Dunton, T., 118 Webster, Benjamin, 165, 230, 334 Wenman, 300 "Werner," 270-1 Whistler, J.M., 129, 134-5, 199, 306 White, Stanford, 283 Wigan, Alfred, 76, 79, 211-2 Mrs., 76 et sqq., 176 Wilde, Oscar, 118, 134-5, 198-9, 275 Williams, Harcourt, 337, 340 Wills, W.G., 150, 152, 336 Wilton, Miss Marie.

WATTS, THEODORE, critic, born at St. Ives, bosom friend of Swinburne, who pronounces him "the first critic of our timeperhaps the largest-minded and surest-sighted of any age"; his influence is great, and it has been exercised chiefly through contributions to the periodicals of the day; has assumed the surname of Dunton after his mother; b. 1836.

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