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Coleridge behaved with the utmost complaisance and temper, but relaxed not from his exertions. "Zounds! I was never so bethumped with words." Morritt's impatience; must have cost him an extra sixpence worth of snuff. We went to Lady Davy's in the evening, where there was a fashionable party. April 23. Dined at Lady Davy's with Lord and Lady Lansdowne, and several other fashionable folks.
Waverley, chap. vi. It owes a little to Smollett's Introduction to Humphry Clinker, but as usual improves the loan greatly. Inasmuch as he himself was secretary to the Commission which did away with it. Taken from the name of his friend Morritt's place on the Greta. In the opening introduction to the collected edition of the novels, Scott has given a very full account of the genesis of Waverley.
It was the Corporation of Leeds that by a subscription of £80,000 brought in the anti-Catholic candidate. I remember their subscribing a similar sum to bring in Morritt, if he would have stood. Saw in Morritt's possession an original miniature of Milton by Cooper a valuable thing indeed. The pedigree seemed authentic.
It hangs on my mind, and perhaps on Morritt's. When we returned we took a short drive as far as Barnard Castle; and the business of eating and drinking took up the remainder of the evening, excepting a dip into the Greta Walk. Lady Francis Leveson Gower was the eldest daughter of Charles Greville. Mr. Lockhart writes: "Among other songs Mrs. Arkwright delighted Sir Walter with her own set of
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