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new one , you know ; over the water ; in old England . But Bentham , Bentkam . . let me see . . I have looked over many
a man s books in my day . some warm men , some rather clammy . . and Bentham , Bentham . My memory may fail me in these matters now I have
laid aside business . As we are alone , Stivers , I can tell you that a pen across the ear is a great help to genius I . " am , &c .
MR STIVERS TO LADY C . I can judge perhaps as well as most people ; but I wont commit myself , as Mr Pitt said . " And faith ! " said a gentleman where master dined , " I believe this is the only bad thing he did not commit . " Master
looked grave , and begged leave to differ from the honourable gentleman who spoke last . Master is now gone to see a friend at Leghorn , as the sea , he says ,
always puts him in mind of Margate and Ramsgate . Beside , added he , whenever I have the sea before my eyes , I have before them a part of the British dominions . I never
saw a gentleman pull down his ruffle with greater satisfaction than master did when he said this . In his absence , for he
left me here to improve myself , I stroll about the gallery to see the company . And now perhaps , my Lady , you begin to understand the first line of
my letter . About the pictures ; I have eyes like another man . . better , I have heard somebody say , better and roguisher . But that ' s all one . The first time
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I went to the gallery was witll my master , who desired me tec note what people said . Hce had three other manuensissesjl as he called them . Now , myy
soul ! the sight of stuff thea ladies and gentlemen did talk about these pictures ! As foir the statues , it is well for themi that they are not in London-The Society for the Suppression of Vice would be at Venus ,, first and foremost . She looks ;
modest , but stands as starknaked ( saving your presence ) as ever she was born . So do some lads ; one bolt-upright , two others down ; to represent lads and marbles , when one
stoops to filch and the other is upon him for fair play . The misses looked here and looked there , and would fain have found the marble : but they did not titter as they would have done in England . None of the statues are finished : the
eyes were left for cleverer hands to put , or perhaps for the purchaser to make his own bargain , and choose his own colour , at the glass-warehouse . Among the pictures I was most
taken by a pretty girl they call Sibyl : I think it should be Savil ; for I know a girl of that name not unlike her ; and she certainly is English . She looks exactly as a young lady , who is going to write a loveletter , and is considering what she shall say , not having been very long in love , nor
overmuch , but in good kissing case for the present . While I was examining the points of Miss Savil , an old gentleman of our country fixed Ibis eyes upon an
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High and Low Life in Italy . 18 V
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 1, 1837, page 183, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1835/page/37/
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