...shall send, if not his plate, his cooks, And, know, I've bought the best champagne from Brooks. From liberal Brooks, whose speculative skill Is hasty credit,...vulgar trade, Exults to trust, and blushes to be paid. " On that auspicious night, supremely graced With chosen guests, the pride of liberal taste ; Not in...

...shall send, if not his plate, his cooks, And, know, I've bought the best champagne from Brooks. From liberal Brooks, whose speculative skill Is hasty credit,...vulgar trade, Exults to trust, and blushes to be paid. " On that auspicious night, supremely graced With chosen guests, the pride of liberal taste ; Not in...

...reckoning if he does not sup at the Young Club. " No member to hold a faro bank." From liberal Brookes, whose speculative skill Is hasty credit and a distant...bill ; Who, nursed in clubs, disdains a vulgar trade, Kxiiits to trust, and blushes to be paid. Both clubs, although more or less instituted for the purpose...

...whist." Under such circumstances it is, perhaps, not surprising that, after some eight years, Brooks " Who nursed in clubs, disdains a vulgar trade, Exults to trust, and blushes to be paid," retired from the Mastership of the Club and died in poverty, 1782.* * There is a tradition that, in...

...individual. He is described by Tickell, in a copy of verses addressed to Sheridan, as " Liberal Brookes, whose speculative skill Is hasty credit and a distant...trade, Exults to trust, and blushes to be paid.'" It may be added that, as a consequence of the above-mentioned diffidence, Brooks died a poor man in...

...Brooks. The present house was built on the site of the old one in 1778, and not long afterwards Brooks, " Who, nursed in clubs, disdains a vulgar trade, Exults to trust, and blushes to be paid," retired from the management, and, not unnaturally, died poor. The Managers of Brooks's have courteously...

...but he was always ready to lend money to the losers, who were not always honest enough to repay him. Liberal Brooks, whose speculative skill Is hasty credit...vulgar trade, Exults to trust, and blushes to be paid. — (TICKELL.) He threatened over and over again to resign from the club because he could not get back...

...but he was always ready to lend money to the losers, who were not always honest enough to repay him. Liberal Brooks, whose speculative skill Is hasty credit...a vulgar trade, Exults to trust, and blushes to be paid.—(TICKELL.) He threatened over and over again to resign from the club because he could not get...

...possible. But the reverend doctor is inex* Brookes was equally accommodating : — " From liberal Brookes, whose speculative skill Is hasty credit and a distant...vulgar trade, Exults to trust, and blushes to be paid." Verses, iYom the Hon. Charles James Foi,j>artridgeRhootinffy to the Hon. John Townshcnd, cruising ?...

...Mr. Timbs calls a copy of verses addressed to Sheridan) : — From liberal Brookes, whose speculative Is hasty credit and a distant bill, Who, nursed in...vulgar trade, Exults to trust, and blushes to be paid. The Whigs should raise a monument to his memory ; for much of their coherency, reputation, and influence...