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Anecdotes Of The Late Hugh Kelly.
fcmiself so little of their advice , that except their barely hearing he was cn ^ io-ed that way , he scarcely ever mentioned the subject . Towards the dose of the comedy , however , he ventured to communicate it to BickTStaffe , who praised it before his face in the highest strains ot panegyric ; but no sooner turned down the author ' s stair-case , than he abus-d it to a common friend in the grossest terms , and » talked of of comedwhen his hest feather that
his arrogance in thinking y , hig was of paragraph or Newspaper Essay writing . " . . Goldsmith kept back and was silent , but , as it afterwards appeared , from the same princip le of envy . When asked about Kelly s writing a . comedy , he said , " He knew nothing at all about it—he had heard there was a man of that name about , town , who wrote in Newspapers , but ofhis talents for comedy , or even the work he was engaged m , he
could not judge . " . _ ,..,... This would be a great drawback on the character of Goldsmith , if it arose from a general principle ; . but nothing could be further from the truth—he was kind , beneficent , and good-natured in the extreme , to all but those whom he thoug ht his competitors in literary fame ; but this was so deeply rooted in his nature , that nothing could cure it . Poverty had no terrors for him—but the applauses paid a brother poet
" made him poor indeed . " ; .,, ... During this rising storm Kelly went on with his work , till he finished it about the beginning of September 17 68 , and immediately carried it to Garrick . Garrick was so much p leased with it on the perusal , that he sent him a note , expressive of his hig hest approbation , and among other words , we remember , used this expression : « There are howeversuggested
thoughts in it worthy of an angel . " He , , some -di-vh . alterations , mostly relative to stage ej } eSt , and this was all the part Garrick had in his comedy . We mention this circumstance so minutely , as it was said at the time , that Garrick principally assistedhim in the ' writing ; but this was entirely the voice of envy—a voice , we a-e < orry to say , that is not unusually heard on the first capital works of Authors or Artists , as it is then most likely to be fatal to their rising reputation . [ lo be continued . J
Anecdote Of Mareschal De Turenne.
ANECDOTE OF MARESCHAL DE TURENNE .
""ft TT THEN the Mareschal was but ten years old , and his governor mis-. VV sing him > liad sought up and down every where for him , he _ at Ienoth found him asleep on a cannon , which he seemed to embrace with hislittle arms as far as they could reach . And when he asked him , why he chose such a couch to lie on ? He made answer , " that he designed to have < d » pt there all nig ht , to convince his father that he was hardy enough to undergo the fatigues of war ; thoug h the old Duke had often persuaded him to the contrary . " . -
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Anecdotes Of The Late Hugh Kelly.
fcmiself so little of their advice , that except their barely hearing he was cn ^ io-ed that way , he scarcely ever mentioned the subject . Towards the dose of the comedy , however , he ventured to communicate it to BickTStaffe , who praised it before his face in the highest strains ot panegyric ; but no sooner turned down the author ' s stair-case , than he abus-d it to a common friend in the grossest terms , and » talked of of comedwhen his hest feather that
his arrogance in thinking y , hig was of paragraph or Newspaper Essay writing . " . . Goldsmith kept back and was silent , but , as it afterwards appeared , from the same princip le of envy . When asked about Kelly s writing a . comedy , he said , " He knew nothing at all about it—he had heard there was a man of that name about , town , who wrote in Newspapers , but ofhis talents for comedy , or even the work he was engaged m , he
could not judge . " . _ ,..,... This would be a great drawback on the character of Goldsmith , if it arose from a general principle ; . but nothing could be further from the truth—he was kind , beneficent , and good-natured in the extreme , to all but those whom he thoug ht his competitors in literary fame ; but this was so deeply rooted in his nature , that nothing could cure it . Poverty had no terrors for him—but the applauses paid a brother poet
" made him poor indeed . " ; .,, ... During this rising storm Kelly went on with his work , till he finished it about the beginning of September 17 68 , and immediately carried it to Garrick . Garrick was so much p leased with it on the perusal , that he sent him a note , expressive of his hig hest approbation , and among other words , we remember , used this expression : « There are howeversuggested
thoughts in it worthy of an angel . " He , , some -di-vh . alterations , mostly relative to stage ej } eSt , and this was all the part Garrick had in his comedy . We mention this circumstance so minutely , as it was said at the time , that Garrick principally assistedhim in the ' writing ; but this was entirely the voice of envy—a voice , we a-e < orry to say , that is not unusually heard on the first capital works of Authors or Artists , as it is then most likely to be fatal to their rising reputation . [ lo be continued . J
Anecdote Of Mareschal De Turenne.
ANECDOTE OF MARESCHAL DE TURENNE .
""ft TT THEN the Mareschal was but ten years old , and his governor mis-. VV sing him > liad sought up and down every where for him , he _ at Ienoth found him asleep on a cannon , which he seemed to embrace with hislittle arms as far as they could reach . And when he asked him , why he chose such a couch to lie on ? He made answer , " that he designed to have < d » pt there all nig ht , to convince his father that he was hardy enough to undergo the fatigues of war ; thoug h the old Duke had often persuaded him to the contrary . " . -