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"It is surprising," said the Englishman, "how ignorant we English in general are of Ireland: to be sure we do not now, as in the times of Bacon and Spenser, believe that wild Irishmen have wings; nor do we all of us give credit, to Mr. Twiss's assertion, that if you look at an Irish lady, she answers, 'port if you please." Scotchman.
The supplemental volume is also rich in natural history, and extends to an account of the manufactures, political institutions, &c. of Portugal. Twiss's Travels through Portugal and Spain, 1772-73. 4to. Literary, antiquarian, and descriptive of manners, customs, and national characters. Dalrymple's Travels through Spain and Portugal, 1774. Dublin, 1777. 12mo.
When I lived alone, I always dined on a Sunday with company, in the evening, if not at dinner, at St. I like to see new faces as a study, and since my return from Norway, or rather since I have accepted of invitations, I have dined every third Sunday at Twiss's, nay, oftener, for they sent for me when they had any extraordinary company.
There was no moving him for some time. At last he was carried to bed, and he has been dreaming about himself and the pavement." Twiss's Eldon, i. 130. Boswell wrote to Temple in 1789: 'I hesitate as to going the Spring Northern Circuit, which costs £50, and obliges me to be in rough, unpleasant company four weeks. Letters of Boswell, p. 274. See ante, ii. 191, note 2.
To think that a person from the North of Scotland should travel through some of the finest countries in Europe, and find fault with everything he meets nothing to please him! And therefore, methinks, the Tour to the Hebrides is more excusable, and also perhaps Mr. Twiss's Tour in Ireland. Dr.
The only member of my aunt Twiss's family of whom I remember at this time little or nothing was the eldest son, Horace, who in subsequent years was one of the most intimate and familiar friends of my father and mother, and who became well known as a clever and successful public man, and a brilliant and agreeable member of the London society of his day.
My Euphrasia was, I am sure, a pitiful picture of an antique heroine, in spite of Macdonald's enthusiasm for the "attitude" in the last scene, and my cousin Horace Twiss's comical verdict of approbation, that it was all good, but especially the scene where "you tip it the tyrant." JAMES STREET, BUCKINGHAM GATE, January 17, 1830.
The King said the confidence and humour of the man made him forget at the moment his impudence. Twiss's Eldon, ii. 356. Lord George Gordon and his followers, during these outrages, wore blue ribbands in their hats. Johnson added: 'All danger here is apparently over; but a little agitation still continues.
In the debate on Fox's India Bill on Dec. 3, 1783, Lee 'asked what was the consideration of a charter, a skin of parchment with a waxed seal at the corner, compared to the happiness of thirty millions of subjects, and the preservation of a mighty empire. Parl. Hist. xxiv. 49. See Twiss's Eldon, i. 106-9, and 131, for anecdotes of Lee; and ante, ii. 48, note 1.
He answered, "You may not;" leaving her Majesty to decide whether, as knot and not were in sound alike, she was, or was not, at liberty to do so. Twiss's Eldon, ii. 355. See Boswell's Hebrides, Aug. 23. See post, p. 248.
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