Crossword-Solution: DENNISES 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

George's personal friends accompany him--men like Kennedy, or General Hardisty, or some well-known man from the Eastern Shore--one of the Dennises, or Joyneses, or Irvings--the pleasure was intensified, the incident being of great professional advantage.

His list of forefathers ascended so high that they were lost in the barbarous ages of Galwegian independence, so that his genealogical tree, besides the Christian and crusading names of Godfreys, and Gilberts, and Dennises, and Rolands without end, bore heathen fruit of yet darker ages--Arths, and Knarths, and Donagilds, and Hanlons.

For] [Footnote 2: wonderfully natural] [Footnote 3: genuine] [Footnote 4: goodnatured Reader] [Footnote 5: what a Genius the Author was Master of] [Footnote 6: Humanity] [Footnote 7: that] [Footnote 8: Addison had incurred much ridicule from the bad taste of the time by his papers upon Chevy Chase, though he had gone some way to meet it by endeavouring to satisfy the Dennises of 'that polite age,' with authorities from Virgil.

There's a double chuck at a double chin, And of course there's a double pleasure therein, If the parties were brought to telling: And however our Dennises take offence, A double meaning shows double sense; And if proverbs tell truth, A double tooth Is Wisdom's adopted dwelling! CCLXVIII.

Corneille's objections he would attribute to jealousy--at his pieces when burlesqued at the Italian theatre[B] he would smile outwardly, though sick at heart; but his son informs us, that a stroke of raillery from his witty friend Chapelle, whose pleasantry hardly sheathed its bitterness, sunk more deeply into his heart than the burlesques at the Italian theatre, the protest of Corneille, and the iteration of the two Dennises.