The Maclise portrait-gallery of "illustrious literary characters", with memoirs biographical, critical, bibliographical and anecdotal, illustrative of the literature of the former half of the present (14761245781)

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington, in the Maclise Portrait-Gallery

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Title: The Maclise portrait-gallery of "illustrious literary characters", with memoirs biographical, critical, bibliographical & anecdotal, illustrative of the literature of the former half of the present century

Year: 1883 (1880s)

Authors: Maclise, Daniel, 1806-1870 Bates, William, d. 1884

Subjects: Authors Authors, English Journalists

Publisher: London : Chatto and Windus

Contributing Library: The Centre for 19th Century French Studies - University of Toronto

Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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, chiefly, perhaps, from their not having followedup in their later years the impression produced by their earlier writings ;and he seems to have slipped out of the world, almost without notice, inthe year 1849. ^^ that same year was re-issued by Bentley a sort of novel,entitled Martin Toutrond; or the Adventures of a Erenchnian in London.To this work, which appears to me but the rinsings of a testa which didnot retain the merest suspicion of the Falernian with which it may haveh^^n semel imbuta,\h^ publisher prefixed a statement to the effect thathe was permitted by the family of Mr. Morier to announce that it wasthe production of that distinguished novelist, and moreover that it wasoriginally written in French, but never published, and was translated bythe author himself into English.

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COUNTESS OF BLESSINGTON. 159 XXXIV.—COUNTESS OF BLESSINGTON. Lady Blessington ! cried the glad usher aloud, As she swam through the doorway, like moon from a cloud ; I know not which most her face beamd with,—fine creature ! Enjoyment, or judgment, or wit, or good nature. Perhaps you have known what it is to feel longings To pat silken shoulders at routs, and such throngings ;— Well, think what it is at a vision like that ! A Grace after dinner ! A Venus grown fat ! Some elderly gentleman riskd an objection ; But this only made us all swear her perfection. His arms the host threw round the liberal bodice, And kissd her, exactly as god might do goddess. • It is Leigh Hunt who thus introduces the brilliant Countess, the■most gorgeous Lady Blessington,—to use the^ liquorish epithet whichthe Brummagem Doctor, Parr of Hatton, bestowed upon her ; and asshe thus swims before us, in his graphic lines, as queen regnant of thebrilliant coterie of Gore House, we sadly contrast her wi

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