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The works of Northcote and Harlowe contain traces of the teaching of their preceptors little more than do the productions of their contemporaries, and they certainly bequeathed no distinct traditions of style to their successors.
He died in his 77th year, in 1831, without apparently having carried out his intention of editing Foote. A process in English copyhold law. Hazlitt said of Northcote, that talking with him was like conversing with the dead: "You see a little old man, pale and fragile, with eyes gleaming like the lights hung in tombs.
If it had but been possible, no doubt saying prayers for the world, even with no better than the old men of the College to say amen, had something more beautiful in it than tours of agitation for the Liberation Society; but Northcote knew that for him it was not possible, any more than was the tonsure of Reginald's predecessor, who had said mass when first those pinnacles were reared towards heaven.
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.
Northcote said to himself that this was untrue, and brought up a hundred very good reasons why he should have employed such an example, but the reproof stung him to the quick, for to be ungentlemanly was the reproach of all others most calculated to go to his heart. But nobody knew how Mr. May went home in his Inverness cape, breathing fire and flame, nor of the execution he did thereupon. Mr.
Hazlitt mentions that he was more sensible of obligation to Northcote, who had never done him anything he could call a service, than to his whole circle of ostentatious friends; for he thought a good companion emphatically the greatest benefactor. I know there are people in the world who cannot feel grateful unless the favour has been done them at the cost of pain and difficulty.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence, who was a patron of the stage or the people on it, or some of them brought the boy to Northcote, to be represented in a 'Vandyke costume retiring from the altar of Shakespeare, rather an unmeaning ceremonial. But the picture was a great success, and the engraving of it published and dedicated to the duke.
In The Conversations of Northcote, p. 88, it is stated that 'Foster first became popular from the Lord Chancellor Hardwicke stopping in the porch of his chapel in the Old Jewry out of a shower of rain: and thinking he might as well hear what was going on he went in, and was so well pleased that he sent all the great folks to hear him, and he was run after as much as Irving has been in our time. Dr.
The idea of carrying off a few lines of a poem in one's pocket for one's collection " "Now that's what I call speaking up," said Mrs. Tozer, the first time she had opened her lips, "that's just what I like. Mr. Northcote has a deal more sense than the like of you. He knows what's what.
I suppose girls don't mind when a man goes on, whether he's stupid or not. I never heard Mr. Northcote say much that was interesting either; but he looks clever, and that is always something." "So Mr. Northcote is Ursula's one," said Mrs. Hurst, laughing. "You are a perfect jewel, Janey, and I don't know how I should ever find out anything that's going on, but for you.
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