| 1844 - 814 páginas
...been an old friend, had called to enquire for his health. " The next time Mr Selwyn calls," said he, " show him up; if I am alive, I shall be delighted to see him ; and, if I am dead, he will be delighted to see me." Walpole says, after telling a story of one Arthur Moore, " I told thislhe other... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 440 páginas
...intimacy with him, had called to inquire after his health. " The next time Mr. Selwyn calls," he said, " show him up : — if I am alive I shall be delighted...to see him, and if I am dead he will be glad to see me." And yet this was the same individual who delighted in the first words, and in the sunny looks... | |
| 1843 - 574 páginas
...intimacy with him, had called to enquire after his health. " The next time Mr. Selwyn calls," he said, " show him up : — if I am alive I shall be delighted...to see him, and if I am dead he will be glad to see me." There are but very few features or passages in Selwyn's own life that can be regarded as worthy... | |
| 1844 - 702 páginas
...jokes levelled at him for this peculiarity. The best is the first Lord Holland's, who was dying. ' The next time Mr Selwyn calls, show ' him up. If I...see him; and if ' I am dead, he will be glad to see me.' Lord Holland was not the only statesman of the period who could joke under such circumstances.... | |
| LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMANS - 1844 - 652 páginas
...jokes levelled at him for this peculiarity. The best is the first Lord Holland's, who was dying. ' The next time Mr Selwyn calls, show " him up. If I...see him; and if ' I am dead, he will be glad to see me.' Lord Holland was not the only statesman of the period who could joke under such circumstances.... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1844 - 676 páginas
...being told that Selwyn had come to inquire after his health, he said, " The next time that gentleman calls, show him up. If I am alive, I shall be delighted to see him ; and if I am dead, he will be delighted to see me !" The execution of the rebel lords in 1745 afforded him a rare treat, and he witnessed... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - 1844 - 414 páginas
...Glancing at it for a moment, he observed with a mournful pleasantry : " If Mr. Selwyn calls again, shew him up : if I am alive I shall be delighted to see him ; and if I am dead he would like to see me." Lady Holland survived her husband only twenty-three days; and only five months... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1850 - 608 páginas
...Lord Holland, fully comprehending his feeling, is said to have remarked, 'If Mr. Sehvvn calls again, show him up; if I am alive I shall be delighted to see him, and if I am dead he would like to see me.' Walter Scott thus speaks of this 'brave old house,' as Wai pole terms it : —... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1850 - 612 páginas
...Lord Holland, fully comprehending his feeling, is said to have remarked, '" If Mr. Selwyn calls again, show him up; if I am alive I shall be delighted to see him, and if I am dead he would like to see me.' Walter Scott thus speaks of this ' brave old house,' as Wai pole terms it :... | |
| Peter Cunningham - 1851 - 382 páginas
...dying lord, fully comprehending his feeling, is said to have remarked, " If Mr. Selwyn calls again, show him up ; if I am alive I shall be delighted to see him, and if I am dead he would like to see me." The lato Lord Holland called on Lord Lansdowne a little before his death, and... | |
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