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The Athenaeum, in the course of a laudatory review, observed that 'Lady Morgan had lived through the love, admiration, and malignity of three generations of men, and was, in short, a literary Ninon, who seemed as brisk and captivating in the year 1859 as when George was Prince, and the author of "Kate Kearney" divided the laureateship of society and song with Tom Moore.
Breakfast over, she accompanied the young man to the platform, bought him the Graphic, the Athenaeum, and a paper-cutter, and stood on the step conversing till the whistle sounded. Then she put her head into the carriage. 'BLACK FACE AND SHINING EYE! she whispered, and instantly leaped down upon the platform, with a thrill of gay and musical laughter.
There is little doubt Burton had gipsy blood in his veins; there was something Oriental in his temperament, and even in his skin. One summer's day I found him reading the paper in the Athenaeum. He was dressed in a complete suit of white white trousers, a white linen coat, and a very shabby old white hat. People would have stared at him anywhere.
Ticknor is busy learning Spanish and collecting Spanish books, and here he lays the groundwork for that special literary distinction for which he is now so widely known. Adapted from the Athenaeum and Quarterly Review. Fitz-Greene Halleck died at a ripe old age in 1867. On the evening of February 2d, 1869, Bryant delivered an address on the life and writings of Halleck.
The son of an editor of The Times, he was, for a short time owner of The Athenaeum, and also a curate under Hare. Since Carlyle's "extraordinary elegy, apology, eulogium" is itself a classic, particular interest attaches itself to Sterling's generous estimate of the man destined to make him immortal. Poems, chiefly Lyrical. By ALFRED TENNYSON. Wilson, 12 mo. 1830.
Before the Duke of York's column, and between the "Athenaeum" and "United Service" Clubs, I have seen more than once, on the esplanade, a preacher holding forth to a little congregation of badauds and street-boys, whom he entertains with a discourse on the crimes of a rapacious aristocracy, or warns of the imminent peril of their own souls.
The Athenaeum was particularly attentive, but I was unable to avail myself of the privileges it laid freely open before me during my stay in London. Other clubs I looked in upon were: the Reform Club, where I had the pleasure of dining at a large party given by the very distinguished Dr.
Are they not obliged to yield to the general want of the age, in spite of the resistance of the old women on the committees? I, for my part, do not despair to see a bishop lolling out of the "Athenaeum" with a cheroot in his mouth, or, at any rate, a pipe stuck in his shovel-hat.
Goschen's bureau, analyzes at the Athenaeum the gossip which he has acquired at Brooks's, and by dinner-time is able, if only he is willing, to tell you what Spain intends and what America; the present relations between the Curia and the Secret Societies; how long Lord Salisbury will combine the Premiership with the Foreign Office; and the latest theory about the side of Whitehall on which Charles I. was beheaded.
The 'Guardian' spoke of 'Dodo' as 'unusually clever and interesting'; the 'Spectator' called it 'a delightfully witty sketch of society; the 'Speaker' said the dialogue was 'a perpetual feast of epigram and paradox'; the 'Athenaeum' spoke of the author as 'a writer of quite exceptional ability'; the 'Academy' praised his 'amazing cleverness; the 'World' said the book was 'brilliantly written'; and half-a-dozen papers declared there was 'not a dull page in the book.
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