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The Blue-stocking ClubTowards the close of the last century, there met at Mrs. Montague's a literary assembly, called "The Blue-Stocking Club," in consequence of one of the most admired of the members, Mr. Benjamin Stillingfleet, always wearing blue stockings. The appellation soon became general as a name for pedantic or ridiculous literary ladies. Hannah More wrote a volume in verse, entitled The Bas Bleu: or Conversation. It proceeds on the mistake of a foreigner, who, hearing of the Blue-Stocking Club, translated it literally Bas Bleu. Johnson styled this poem "a great performance." The following couplets have been quoted, and remembered, as terse and pointed:-- "In men this blunder still you find, All think their little set mankind." "Small habits well pursued betimes, May reach the dignity of crimes." * * * * * Next: Dr Johnson And Hannah More Previous: Families Of Literary Men
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