Hints for the table: or, the economy of good living / [Anon].

  • John Timbs
Date:
1838
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Credit: Hints for the table: or, the economy of good living / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    never forget the clay he, and Rogers, and Moore, ancl I passed together; when he talked, and we listened, without one yawn, from six to one in the morning.” One night, Sheridan was found in the street by a watch- man, bereft of that “ divine particle of air,” called reason ; and fuddled, and bewildered, and almost insensible. He, the watchman, ashed, “Who are you, sir?”—no answer. “ What’s your name ?”—A hiccup. “ What’s your name?” —Answer, in a slow, deliberate, and impassive tone, “ Wil- berforce! ” Byron notes: “ Is not that Sherry all over ?— and, to my mind, excellent. Poor fellow'! his very dregs are better than the first sprightly runnings of others.” Ozias Linley, Sheridan’s brother-in-law, one day received a card to dine with the Archbishop of Canterbury, at Lambeth. Careless into what hole or corner he threw his invitations, he soon lost sight of the card, and forgot it altogether. A year revolved, when, on wiping the dust from some papers he had stuck in the chimney-glass, the bishop’s invitation for a certain day in the month, (he did not think of the year one instant,) stared him full in the face; and taking it for granted that it was a recent one, he dressed himself on the appointed day, and proceeded to the palace. But his diocesan was not in London, a circum- stance of which, though a matter of some notoriety to the clergy of the diocese, he was quite unconscious; and he returned home dinnerless. Mr. Canning’s fund of animal spirits, and the extreme excitability of his temperament, were such as invariably to hurry him, nolentem volentem, into the full rush and flush of conviviality. At the latter period of his life, when his health began to break, he would sit down with an evident determination to be abstinent, eat sparingly of the simplest soup, take no sauce with his fish, and mix water in his wine; but, as the repartee began to sparkle, and the anec- dote to circulate, his assumed caution was insensibly re- laxed, he gradually gave way to temptation, and commonly ended by eating of every thing, and taking wine with every body—the very beau-idhd of an amphitryon.—Quarter/}/ Review.
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