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Fox, Burke, Talleyrand, Grattan, Walter Scott, and many other great ones have sat there and held converse on divers matters with the banker-poet. For more than half a century the wits and the wise men honored that unpretending mansion with their presence.
Her broad Spanish hat suited her well, shading as it did cheeks slightly flushed by exercise, and shining tresses of that color which with us is nameless, and which across the Channel they call blond cendré. Her hand was strikingly perfect, even in its gauntlet. It might have been modeled from that famous marble fragment of which the banker-poet was so proud, and which Canova kissed so often.
He was a frequent guest at the well-known breakfasts of the great banker-poet of 'The Pleasures of Memory' and of 'Italy, and listened or added his own contributions to the exuberant riches of the hour, when such visitors as Talfourd, Dickens, Moore, and Landor were the talkers."
On one occasion, "Rogers, talking of Washington Irving's 'Columbus, said, 'in his airy, significant way, as Moore called it, 'It's rather long. Cooper turned round on him and said sharply, 'That's a short criticism." This banker-poet could be severe on his English friends too, as it appears "Lady Holland was always lamenting that she had nothing to do.
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