The life and eccentricities of the late dr. MonseyJ.D. Dewick for T. Hughes, 1804 - 108 стор. |
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Сторінка 1 - Thorpe, a village in the county of Norfolk, of which his father was rector. The maiden name of his mother was SUCKLING : her grandmother was an elder sister of Sir ROBERT WALPOLE, and this child was named after his godfather, the first Lord WALPOLE.
Сторінка 31 - July, he chose the fire-place of his sitting room for his treasury, and placed bank notes and cash to a considerable amount in that unusual situation, in one corner, under the cinders and shavings. On his return, after a month's absence, he found his old woman (as he always called his housekeeper) preparing to treat a friend or two with a cup of tea ; and, by way of showing respect to her guests...
Сторінка 28 - How happens it," said Sir Robert, in his social hour, " that nobody will beat me at billiards, or contradict me, but Dr. Monsey?" — " They get places," said the doctor :
Сторінка 104 - ... infirmity clouded his faculties ; garrulous old age came on, and languor, pain, and petulance, succeeded to that gaiety and wit which had very often set the table in a roar, and to those sallies of ironical sarcasm, which no " power of face" could resist. He had far exceeded the age of man ; the accomplishment of his century was near at hand ; and he declared, in the querulous voice of decrepitude, that he had out-lived his pleasures and his friends. The world was...
Сторінка vi - I will assure you that they are both very pleasant and very convenient. But I must tell you one circumstance: you are the fifth man that has had the reversion of the place, and I have buried them all. And what is more," continued he, looking very scientifically at him, "there is something in your face, that tells me I shall bury you too.
Сторінка 86 - I possibly could to reach this gentleman before his resignation; and found very little difficulty m persuading him to intercede in my favour. In short, his endeavours, joined to my own, secured the lectureship, and I was unanimously chosen. The electors, however, expressed a desire that I would quit my place of residence, which was at a distance, and live in the parish. To this request I consented ; and immediately fixed myself in a decent family, where I lodged and boarded for fifty pounds a year;...
Сторінка 82 - My father," said he, after some preliminary conversation, " was a shoemaker of tolerable business in London ; a very honest man, and very much given to reading godly books, whenever he could steal a moment from the lap-stone and the last. As I was the only child, he took great delight in me, and used frequently to say, that he hoped in time to see me archbishop of Canterbury, and no such great matters neither; for as to my parentage, I was as good as many a one that had worn a mitre ; and he would...
Сторінка 47 - Monsey used to relate that the first of his ancestors, of any note, was a baker and dealer in hops, a trade which enabled him with some difficulty to support a large family.
Сторінка 79 - Heaven's sake hold, David," said Hogarth; "remain as you are for a few minutes." — Garrick did so while Hogarth sketched the outlines, which were afterwards finished from their mutual recollection, and this drawing was the original of all the portraits we have at present of the admired author of Tom Jones; but Garrick and Hogarth did not always agree so well.
Сторінка 82 - So scanty an allowance would by no means defray the enormous expense of university education ; and my father, whose pride would not let me appear meaner than my companions, very readily agreed to pay me forty pounds out of the yearly profits of his trade, and to debar...