LUCAN, Pharsalia.
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CLUBS AND SOCIAL MEETINGS.
Desire of Country Gentlemen for Town Associations--Book Clubs--Too
much of literary Character expected from them--Literary Conversation
prevented; by Feasting, by Cards--Good, notwithstanding, results--
Card Club with Eagerness resorted to--Players--Umpires at the Whist
Table--Petulances of Temper there discovered--Free and Easy Club;
not perfectly easy or free--Freedom, how interrupted--The superior
Member--Termination of the Evening--Drinking and Smoking Clubs--The
Midnight Conversation of the delaying Members--Society of the poorer
Inhabitants; its Use; gives Pride and Consequence to the humble
Character--Pleasant Habitations of the frugal Poor--Sailor returning
to his Family--Freemasons' Club--The Mystery--What its Origin--Its
professed Advantages--Griggs and Gregorians--A kind of Masons--
Reflections on these various Societies.
YOU say you envy in your calm retreat
Our social Meetings;--'tis with joy we meet.
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