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Dunning, being in very great business, was asked how he contrived to get through it all. He said, "I do one third of it, another third does itself, and the remaining third continues undone." Twiss's Eldon, i. 327. It is not easy to detect Johnson in anything that comes even near an inaccuracy. Let me quote, therefore, a passage from one of his letters which shews that when he wrote to Mrs.
"Nothing so easy," replied Taylor, "I cannot pay my share of the dinner bill: and that, Sir, I must beg of you to do." Twiss's Eldon, i 321. Pope mentions Ward in the Imitations of Horace, 2 Epistle, i. 180: 'He serv'd a 'prenticeship who sets up shop; Ward try'd on puppies, and the poor, his drop.
His portrait in the Bodleian shews that he was a very fat man. Prior's Malone, p. 415. Scott would not have thought any the worse of Blackstone for his bottle of port; both he and his brother, the Chancellor, took a great deal of it. 'Lord Eldon liked plain port; the stronger the better. Twiss's Eldon, iii. 486. Some one asked him whether Lord Stowell took much exercise.
Lord Eldon asked Pitt, not long before his death, what he thought of the honesty of mankind. 'His answer was, that he had a favourable opinion of mankind upon the whole, and that he believed that the majority was really actuated by fair meaning and intention. Twiss's Eldon, i. 499.
Not many years after, to wit, A.D. 1632, out cometh Dr. Twiss's Vindiciæ Gratiæ, a large volume, purposely writ against Arminius: and then, notwithstanding my former resolution, I must need be meddling again. The respect I bore to his person and great learning, and the acquaintance I had had with him in Oxford, drew me to the reading of that whole book.
Ellis, describing the division of the house on the second reading of the Reform Bill, given in Mr. Trevelyan's life of his uncle, the great historian says Horace Twiss's countenance at the liberal victory looked like that of a "damned soul." If, instead of a lost soul, he had said poor Horace looked like a lost seat, he would have been more accurate, if not as picturesque. Mr.
I shall suggest Ashley's taking Horace Twiss's place, and Lord Graham being First Commissioner. This will force him to come forward. Then Wortley might be Second Commissioner. Horace Twiss is a clever man, but rather vulgar. However, he is a lawyer and a very good speaker, and will do very well. January 7. I told the Chairs my views as to an alteration in the Supreme Court Bill.
'I put my hand into my pocket, meaning to give him his fee; but he stopped me, saying, "Are you the young gentleman who gained the prize for the essay at Oxford?" I said I was. "I will take no fee from you." I often consulted him; but he would never take a fee. Twiss's Eldon, i. 104. How much he had physicked himself is shewn by a letter of May 8.
There is something awful in these stories of presentiments that always impresses me deeply this warning shadow, projected by no perceptible object, falling darkly and chilly over one; this indistinct whisper of destiny, of which one hears the sound, without distinguishing the sense; this muffled tread of Fate approaching us! Did you read Horace Twiss's speech on the Reform Bill?
This most improvident expression uttered by a Crown lawyer formed the subject of comment and reproach in all the subsequent debates, in all publications of the times, and in everybody's conversation. Twiss's Eldon, iii. 97.
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