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It is dedicated to King Charles II. and besides 233 thoughts in it, there are some small pieces of poetry. Midnight and Daily thoughts in verse and prose, Lond. 1694, with commendatory verses before it, by H. Briket. He died 1693, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. Sir ROBERT HOWARD.
And none but Sampson dares to lift a hond Against the curst corruption of the lond. Now, lad, I'm off to my printer with this. They are working night and day just now: there will be two hundred copies printed in half an hour." "And me, doctor," said Julia. "Am poor I to have no hand in it? How cruel of you? Oh pray, pray, pray let me help a little."
The plate bore this comprehensive inscription: G. DE BOURSY-WILLIAMS, M.D., F.R.C.S. Lond. And, scanning the inscription for perhaps the thousandth time, the grim, tender mouth under the ragged black moustache took a satirical twist at the corners, for nobody knew better than Owen Saxham, called of men in Gueldersdorp the "Dop Doctor," what a brazen lie it proclaimed.
"When he was in Paris," Hazlitt writes, "and went to Galignani's, he sat down in an outer room to look at some book he wanted to see; none of the clerks had the least suspicion who he was. When it was found out, the place was in a commotion." From Mr. Alexander Ireland's excellent Selections from Hazlitt's writings, 8vo, Lond. 1889, p. 482.
The Wild Gallant, a Comedy, acted at the theatre-royal, and printed in 4to, Lond. 1699. The Indian Emperor; or the Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards, acted with great applause, and written in verse. An Evening's Love; or the Mock Astrologer, a Comedy, acted at the theatre-royal, and printed in 4to. 1671.
Fortunately the tower and crown were untouched, and the interior, which was injured in a less degree, has, through the liberality and good taste of the late William Chambers, been restored to its original stateliness. See Ethwald, Plays on the Passions, vol. ii., Lond. 1802.
This very early friend of Scott's was thought by Captain Hall to have been the prototype of Diana Vernon "that safest of secret keepers." See Schloss Hainfeld, 8vo, Lond. 1836. The property of Gattonside had been purchased in 1824 by George Bainbridge of Liverpool, a keen angler, author of The Fly Fisher's Guide, 8vo, Liverpool, 1816. Lady Anna Maria Elliot, see ante, p. 133.
Jacobus Oglethorpe, e C.C.C. 16. Theoph. f. Sti. Jacobi, Lond. Equ. Aur. filius natu minor." That is, "In Trinity Term, July 9, 1704, James Oglethorpe, aged 16, youngest son of Theophilus Oglethorpe, of St.
Lond. Mag. July, 1741, p. 360. I am well acquainted with the medal described by Mr.
He died on Christmas-day 1849, aged fifty-eight. See Burgon's Memoirs, 8vo, Lond. 1859. Audubon says in his Journal of the same date: "Captain Hall led me to a seat immediately opposite to Sir Walter Scott, the President, where I had a perfect view of the great man, and studied Nature from Nature's noblest work."
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