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We talked a good deal together, and I confided to her my annoyance at the prospect of being called up to answer a toast; but she did not pity me at all, though she felt, much alarm about her husband, Captain , who was in the same predicament. Seriously, it is the most awful part of my official duty, this necessity of making dinner-speeches at the Mayor's, and other public or semi-public tables.
We talked a good deal together, and I confided to her my annoyance at the prospect of being called up to answer a toast; but she did not pity me at all, though she felt, much alarm about her husband, Captain , who was in the same predicament. Seriously, it is the most awful part of my official duty, this necessity of making dinner-speeches at the Mayor's, and other public or semi-public tables.
To all this must be added his literary works, first of all those on art, which are landmarks and authorities of the first order for the Renaissance of Form, especially in architecture; then his Latin prose writings novels and other works of which some have been taken for productions of antiquity; his elegies, eclogues, and humorous dinner-speeches.
The courts-martial that so often succeeded general actions, had taught them that there were all degrees of spirit, as well as all degrees of a want of spirit; and they knew too much, to be the dupes of flourishes of the pen, or of vapid declamation at dinner-speeches, and in the House of Commons.
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