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She lived long after the death of the man of genius who adored her, lived well into the nineteenth century, and "Hazlitt saw her, an old lady, but beautiful still, in Northcote's painting-room, who told the eager critic how proud she was always that Goldsmith had admired her." Goldsmith was a companionable being and loved all company that was not vicious and depraved.
I do not mean to say, though it certainly would be to the credit of these Discourses if I could say it with truth, that he contributed even a single sentiment to them; but he qualified my mind to think justly. Northcote's Reynolds, ii. 282. See ante, i. 245. The error in grammar is no doubt Boswell's. The remaining six volumes came out, not in 1780, but in 1781. See post, 1781.
Northcote's guidance, and much of our knowledge of them was gained through him. Mr. This question of the number of the dead in the catacombs opens the way to many other curious questions.
Johnson, but seems to have taken an unaccountable dislike to Mrs. Thrale, to whom he never speaks.... He is a shrewd, sensible, keen, and very clever man. Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, ii. 172, 174. He, Burke, and Malone were Sir Joshua's executors. Northcote's Reynolds, ii. 293. Boswell should have shown, for he must have known it, that Johnson was Mrs. Thrale's guest at Brighton.
Burke, speaking of Bacon's Essays, said he thought them the best of his works. Dr. Johnson was of opinion that their excellence and their value consisted in being the observations of a strong mind operating upon life; and in consequence you find there what you seldom find in other books. Northcote's Reynolds, ii. 281. Mr.
Two or three years later Sir William married the Bishop's daughter. Life of Sir W Jones, pp.240, 279. No. 2. See vol. i p. 378. Northcote, according to Hazlitt, said of this character with some truth, that 'it was like one of Kneller's portraits it would do for anybody. Northcote's Conversations, p.86. See post, p.98. London Chronicle, May 2, 1769.
'Reynolds used to say that "the pupil in art who looks for the Sunday with pleasure as an idle day will never make a painter." Northcote's Reynolds, i. 119. 'Dr. Johnson, said Lord Eldon, 'sent me a message on his death-bed, to request that I would attend public worship every Sunday. Twiss's Eldon, i. 168.
Northcote's pictures to the new church at Pimlico, built by Mr. Hakewill, and to the chapel built by Mr. Cockerell, in the upper part of Regent-street. A very valuable musical manuscript, by Guillaume de Machault, who was valet de chambre to Phillippe-le-Bel, in 1307, has been discovered in the royal library at Paris.
Copperhead, Janey thought he was almost as lonely as she was. He had lighted his cigar, and was strolling up and down, interrupting both of the other pairs occasionally, breaking into the midst of Northcote's astronomical lecture abruptly, and stopping Phoebe herself in the middle of a sentence.
Drink and expensive living, dancing and singing upstairs and downstairs, and the jollifications culminated in a servants' ball given at the Shoreham Gardens. All the Woodview servants, excepting Mrs. Latch, were there; likewise all the servants from Mr. Northcote's, and those from Sir George Preston's two leading county families.
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