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Beecham and he were in the habit of using that word, whether appropriate or inappropriate. This was the explanation of the white necktie and the formal dress which had puzzled Ursula. Horace Northcote was not of Mr. Beecham's class.
The prince sat in the studio while the artist drew the Infant. Northcote was not a man to wear a better coat upon his back for all that his back was going to be turned upon royalty. He still wore the ragged, patched dressing-gown he always worked in.
Hallo! here's another old friend Northcote, by George! and what are you doing here I should like to know, a blazing young screamer of the Liberation Society, in a high and dry parson's rooms? This is as good as a play." "I suppose one is not required to stay at exactly the same point of opinion all one's life," said Northcote, with a half-smile.
Northcote, in quoting this letter, says that 'Sir Joshua's influence in the Academy was not always answerable to his desire. "Those who are of some importance everywhere else," he said, "find themselves nobody when they come to the Academy." Northcote's Reynolds, ii. 145. William Hunter, scarcely less famous as a physician than his youngest brother, John Hunter, as a surgeon.
Sir William clearly possessed the learning denied to his chief. Beyond apparently imposing upon Sir Stafford Northcote, Disraeli himself never made any vain pretensions to be devoted to pursuits for which he did not care a rap.
It is well set forth by the Rev. H. Northcote in his excellent book, Christianity and Sex Problems. There is something pathetic in the spectacle of those among us who are still only able to recognise the animal end of marriage, and who point to the example of the lower animals among whom the biological conditions are entirely different as worthy of our imitation.
But I've put a stop to that; and old May ain't a bad old fellow don't bother me with work more than I like, and none of your high mightiness, like that fellow. I'll tell you what, Northcote, you must come and see me. I haven't got a sitting-room of my own, which is a shame, but I have the use of their rooms as much as I like. The sisters go flying away like a flock of pigeons.
If the others have too much work, and I too little, my duty is clear, don't you think?" Northcote made no reply. Had he known what was about to be said to him, he might have stirred up his faculties to say something; but he had not an idea that Reginald would answer him like this, and it took him aback. He was too honest himself not to be worsted by such a speech.
When, after a defeat on the Budget of 1885, Gladstone determined to resign, it was thought by some that Sir Stafford Northcote, who had led the Opposition in the House of Commons with skill and dignity, would be called to succeed him. But the Queen knew better; and Lord Salisbury now became Prime Minister for the first time.
For in his day Romney was the admitted rival of Reynolds, whose pupil and biographer Northcote, an unwilling witness, admitting with reluctance anything to his preceptor's disadvantage, says, expressly: 'Certain it is that Sir Joshua was not much employed in portraits after Romney grew in fashion. Reynolds, it cannot be doubted, was jealous of Romney, and spoke of him always rather acridly as 'the man in Cavendish Square; just as Barry was at one time fond of designating Reynolds 'the man in Leicester Fields. 'There are two factions in art, said Lord Chancellor Thurlow; 'Romney and Reynolds divide the town; and I am of the Romney faction. In his own day, indeed, the recognition of the artist was remarkable.
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