Active Blogs | Popular Blogs | Recent Blogs I awoke one morning in that condition when Ilouboutin soldes was engaged to spend the day at Streathara with Mr. and Mrs. Piozzi, to meet Miss Farren (afterwards Lady Derby); and it was only by the application of laudanum to my wounds that I was enabled to keep my engage¬ment. Nothing could exceed the elegance and re¬finement of Miss Farren's appearance and manners. People have taken the trouble tolouboutin soldes write my Life more than once; and strange assertions they have made both about myself and my works. In one biographical account it is stated that I submitted The Pleasures of Memory in manuscript to the cri¬tical revision of Richard Sharp : now, when that poem was first published, I had not yet formed an acquaintance with Sharp (who was introduced tolouboutin soldes me by the oldest of my friends, Maltby). The beautiful lines, " Pleasures of Memory!¡ªoh, su¬premely blest," &c., which I have inserted in a note on Part Second, were composed by a Mr. Soame,f who died in India in 1803, at which time he was a lieutenant in the dragoons. I believe that he de¬stroyed himself. I had heard that the lines were in a certain newspaper, and went to Peel's Coffeehouse to see that paper: there I first read them, and there I transcribed them. louboutin soldes On the publication of The Pleasures of Memory, I sent a copy to Mason, who never acknowledged it. I learned, however, from Gilpin, and to my great satisfaction, that Mason, in a letter to him, had spoken well of it;¡ªhe pronounced it to be very different in style from the poetry of the day. During my whole life I have borne in mind the speech louboutin soldesof a woman to Philip of Macedon; " I appeal from Philip drunk to Philip sober/'
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