A book of memories of great men and women of the age, from personal acquaintance (1877)
Hall, S. C. (Samuel Carter), 1800-1889, St. John, Cynthia Morgan, 1852-1919. fmo, Wordsworth Collection · London, Virtue · leaf 182
is described as a man of iron energies, and certainly must have had an » The portrait that heads this Memory is from a drawing made by Mr. Eddis for the coUeotion of Mr. Magrath,long the respected secretary of the Athenaeum Club. M 2 164 MEMORIES. iron constitution, for his was a life of perpetual… … THE BUUIAL-PLACE OF TIIEODOHE HOOK. voice had lost its roundness and force, his form its buoyancy, his intellect itsstrength. Alas! how changed from him,That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim! Yet his wit was ready still; he continued to sparkle humour even when exhaustednature failed, and…
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