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Updated: May 29, 2025
We are very sensible of our incapacity to speak, or even think of this writer with prosaic phlegm; we cannot however avoid pronouncing, that, in our humble opinion, Mr. Hayley has now outdone all his former outdoings, and greatly repaid us for the absence we so dearly mourned. We are sensible that it is unbecoming the character of a critic to lay himself out in general and vague declamation.
Famous as they have ever been for dancing, they seem now, in Cibber's words, "to outdo their usual outdoings." In former times, an extraordinary degree of curiosity was excited by any female who excelled in this pleasing accomplishment.
His sons would still be in good circumstances, if they were not his sons; but he had so totally spoiled the two eldest, that they would think themselves bigots if they were to have common sense. Gaming, for the last month, has exceeded its own outdoings, though the town is very empty. It will be quite so to-morrow, for Newmarket begins, or rather the youth adjourn thither.
On laying down the instrument, he approached the place where the friends were sitting, with an exultation in his eyes that was inferior only to modesty in the power to captivate. "Certainly, Mr. Delafield," cried Maria Osgood, "you have outdone your own outdoings."
It is always hovering near him, and, like one of the harpies, is sure to pounce down before the end of the feast, and spoil the banquet, and disgust the guests. The present publication is by far the worst of all his performances, avowed or imputed. Literary merit it has none; but in arrogance, presumption, and absurdity, it far outdoes all his former outdoings.
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