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The rough notes kept by Lady Morgan of her social adventures are not usually of much interest or importance, as she had little faculty or inclination for Boswellising, but the following entry is worth quoting: 'Lady Cork said to me this morning when I called Miss a nice person, "Don't say nice, child, 'tis a bad word." Once I said to Dr. Johnson, "Sir, that is a very nice person."
Thanks to his Boswellising powers, 'Namby-Pamby Willis, as he was called by his numerous enemies, has left an admirably vivid picture of the literary society of London in the 'thirties, a picture that steadily increases in value as the period at which it was painted recedes into the past. Willis came of a family that had contrived, not unsuccessfully, to combine religion with journalism.
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