Patronage
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1814. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... polite Englishman, turning to Count Altenberg, " made a fine example of him-* self by dashing at our Shakspeare ?" " Undoubtedly, Voltaire showed he did not understand Shakspeare, and, therefore, ...
MoreThis historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1814. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... polite Englishman, turning to Count Altenberg, " made a fine example of him-* self by dashing at our Shakspeare ?" " Undoubtedly, Voltaire showed he did not understand Shakspeare, and, therefore, did not do him justice," replied Count Altenberg. " Even Voltaire had some tinge of national prejudice, as well as other men. It was reserved for women, to set us in this instance, as in many others, an example at once of superior candor, and superior talent." English Clay pulled up his boots, and with a look of cool contempt, said, " I see you are a lady's man, Mon-^ sieur." Count Altenberg replied, " that if a Jady's man means an admirer of the fair sex, he was proud to feel that he deserved that compliment;" and with much! warmth he pronounced such a panegyric upon that sex, without whom, " le com*' mencement de la vie est sans secours, le wwlieu sans plaisir, et la fin ians consolation,'* that even Lady Anne Arlington raised her head from the hand on which it reclined, and every female eye turned upon him with approbation. " Oh! what a lover he will make, it ever he is in love," cried lady Frances Arlington, who never scrupled saying any thing that came into her head. -- a I beg pardon, 1 believe I have said something very shocking. Georgiana, my dear, I protest I was not thinking of. . . . . . But what a disturbance I have made amongst all your faces, ladies -- and gentlemen" repeated her Ladyship, looking archly at the Count, whose face at this moment glowed manifestly--"and all because gentlemen and ladies don't mind their grammar and their tenses. -- Now don't you recollect --I call upon Mrs. Falconer, who really has some presence pf. . . . countenance, -- I call upon Mrs. Falconer, to. witness that 1 said if -- And, pray comprehend me, M. le Comte, else I must ...
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