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Indeed, in the course of time we discovered he did not even know that ships had names 'like Christian people'; and when, one day, from the top of the Talfourd Hill, he beheld the sea lying open to his view, his eyes roamed afar, lost in an air of wild surprise, as though he had never seen such a sight before. And probably he had not.
'Oh, dear Lightfoot, what a blessing it is to have a boy's heart! it is as great a blessing in carrying one through this world, as to have a child's spirit will in fitting us for the next. On account of this boyish-heartedness, he is compared by Justice Talfourd to Charles Lamb himself: 'In a certain primness of style, bounding in the rich humour which overflowed it, they were nearly akin; both alike reverenced childhood, and both had preserved its best attributes unspotted from the world. In the fifty-fifth year of his age, he characterised himself as a man
Lamb had known Scott as editor of The Champion in 1814, but, according to Talfourd, it was Hazlitt who introduced Lamb to the London Magazine.
Talfourd relates an amusing instance of the universal charity of the kindly Dyer. Lamb once suddenly asked him what he thought of the murderer Williams, a wretch who had destroyed two families in Ratcliff Highway, and then cheated the gallows by committing suicide.
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'Oh, I say, Le Breton, he began in his good-humoured way, 'what's this that Lynmouth's been telling me about the pigeon-shooting? He says you won't let him go out with Gerald Talfourd. 'Yes, Ernest answered; 'he wanted to miss his morning's work, and I told him I couldn't allow him to do so. 'But I said he might if he liked, Le Breton. Young Talfourd has called for him to go pigeon-shooting.
Character of Coleridge, by Professor Wilson, Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, Dr. Dibdin, Mr. Justice Coleridge, Rev. Archdeacon Hare, Quarterly Review, Rev. C. V. Le Grice Mr. Coleridge's letter to Mr. Cottle on his return from Malta, 1807 Rev. J. Foster's letter concerning Coleridge Mr. Coleridge's singular escape from Italy letter on the Trinity views of Unitarianism character of Sir H. Davy
Gerald Talfourd has called for me in his dog-cart, and wants me to go out with him now immediately. 'Not to-day, Lynmouth, Ernest answered quietly. 'You were out twice last week, you know, and you hardly ever get your full hours for work at all since we came to London. 'Oh, but look here, you know, Mr. Le Breton; I really MUST go to-day, because Talfourd has made an appointment for me.
But her memory was dethroned from its pedestal when the gorgeous Alboni became known to the European public. Thomas Noon Talfourd applied to a well-known actress of half a century since the expression that she had "corn, wine, and oil" in her looks. A similar characterization would well apply both to the appearance and voice of Mlle.
He was a frequent guest at the well-known breakfasts of the great banker-poet of 'The Pleasures of Memory' and of 'Italy, and listened or added his own contributions to the exuberant riches of the hour, when such visitors as Talfourd, Dickens, Moore, and Landor were the talkers."
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