text:  In reverse of Gray's learned mouse eating its way through the folios of an ancient library--and to whom "A river or a sea was but a dish of tea And a kingdom bread and butter " to George Selwyn the world and all that it inhabits were concentrated in Charles Fox William Pitt Richard Brinsley Sheridan and the circle of men of pleasantry loose lives and vivacious temperaments who with whatever diminishing lustre revolved round them