Sir George Hewitt

  • Posted by mgr on November 18th, 2007 filed in HISTORISCHES
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In the brief introduction prefixed to the “Life,” some of those individuals who approached closest to perfection of old times are mentioned. One of those was Sir George Hewitt, on whom Etheridge, the comic writer, sketched his Sir Fopling Flutter. This beau found a place in poetry as well as in prose,

“Had it not better been than thus to roam,
To stay, and tie the cravat-string at home?
To strut, look big, strike pantaloon, and swear
With Hewitt—D——me, There’s no action here?”

Source: BLACKWOOD’S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE. No CCCXLIV. JUNE, 1844. VOL. LV.

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