Conversationalists

Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)

French novelist, critic and essayist (1871–1922)

English writer and lexicographer (1709–1784)

Genevan-French author (1766-1817)

English American author and journalist (1949–2011)

American writer (1925–2012)

American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist (1893-1967)

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Scottish lawyer, diarist and author (1740–1795)

English satirical novelist, diarist, playwright (1752-1840)

English wit, writer, Anglican cleric (1771-1845)

English essayist and poet, 1862–1925 (1862–1925)

Irish physician, writer and politician (1878-1957)

British poet; (1763-1855)

Scottish-born Australian philosopher (1893–1962)

English academic

Swiss writer (1745-1832)