Reminiscences of Henry Angelo: With Memoirs of His Late Father and Friends, Including Numerous Original Anecdotes and Curious Traits of the Most Celebrated Characters that Have Flourished During the Past Eighty Years, Volume 1H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830 |
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Page 170 - I now understood how likely his manner was, under any violent excitement, to give rise to the idea that he was deranged in his intellects, and became convinced of the truth of the sentiment in the lines — Great wit to madness sure is near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Page 41 - Salmagundi/ dedicated to Mr. Wyatt. Several of these I have often heard him most humorously sing, particularly those of " the renowned History and rare Achievements of John Wilkes." The chorus ran thus : — " John Wilkes he was for Middlesex, They chose him knight of the shire ; And he made a fool of Alderman Bull, And call'd Parson Home a liar.
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Page 173 - Whilst my father was in attendance at Buckingham House, where he had the honour to give lessons to his present Majesty, and his late Royal Highness the Duke of York, then Bishop of Osnaburgh, Gainsborough was busily engaged in painting separate portraits of the royal children. He used to tell my father, he was all but raving mad with ecstacy in beholding such a constellation of youthful beauty. Indeed, he used sometimes to rattle away in so hyperbolical a strain upon the subject of his art, that...