carwardine

Updated: May 5, 2025

I remember his quoting to me the following line out of Aeschylus, on the advantage of a master's presence in his own family. He seems to have taken delight in the instruction of youth; besides his own boy, he undertook to educate gratuitously two sons of his friend, Mr. Carwardine, and one of his neighbour Lord Egremont.

Henry Francis Cary - Lives of the English Poets: From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of: Johnson's Lives

Once, indeed, when a young man he made an excursion to Scotland; and, in the summer of 1790, passed three weeks at Paris with his friends, Carwardine and Romney, from whence, much to the scandal of the neighbourhood, he brought back a French governess for his son. Mrs.

Henry Francis Cary - Lives of the English Poets: From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of: Johnson's Lives