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Anecdotes Of The Late Hugh Kelly, Esq.
and , high connections cannot simply give , because the former issues from the heart , and is invigorated in the confidence of that Providence which strepgthens and confirms virtue . Mrs . Kelly proved the truth of this asseition . With no other dowry than her affection she succeeded in " The Way to Keep Him , " at least , as well as any woman we ever knew ; she studied and watched all the little weaknesses of his tempermet them with the most perfeft good
hu-, mour , and rendered his home so pleasing to Mm , that she converted into a domestic man one , who , in the hands of most other women , would , from the temptations of very pleasurable tendencies , and the opportunities of his profession , perhaps have been led into much dissipation . ¦ Doftor Goldsmith , who visited Kelly some years after , confessed this , and was so struck with the comforts and conveniences of Matrimony , that
he proposed for the other sister ; but Kelly resisted this upon very honourable grounds ; he knew his sister-in-law to be the very reverse of his wife in temper and ceconomy ; he likewise knew Goldsmith to . be very thoughtless in respeft to worldly affairs , and not very industrious ; he therefore remonstrated with him on the great impropriety of such a match , ' till with some difficulty and address he weaned him from the pursuit .
What Kelly thought of his wife himself was best evidenced by his conduft , which always gave the impression of a very attentive domestic husband . lie likewise gave a written proof of his affeftion , by addressing to her a Sonnet , under the name of Myra , some years after their marriage , which , perhaps , considering the general habits of husbands , excels more in novelty of princip le than ideas . Our Author now having got what is called settledin the world , changed
his habitation ( which , as he himself used to say , was that which by reversing the house would form the first floor ) and took apartments in Middle Temple Lane , which he furnished very genteelly , and occasionally gave his leg of mutton and bottle to his friends , with a frankness , a conversatioirand hospitality that was very acceptable , and threw the cold civilities of higher tables at a distance . ?; To enable him to do all thishe spurred both the side of his ambition
, and his industry : he commenced a series of Essays in Owen ' s Weekly Chronicle , which he afterwards collected , and bound up in two pocket volnmes , called " 'lhe Babbler . " Pie likewise wrote a Novel called " Louisa Mildmay , or the History of a Magdalen , " which was much read and esteemed , and which he dedicated to the late Duchess of Northumberland .
The merit of both these . works must be judged by referring to the education , the time of life , and opportunities of the Author , and , considering them in this view , place him much above the ranks of ordinary men . His Babblers , though they exhibit chat-afters of particular -manners more than general nature , yet discover some quickness of observation , a fertility of invention , and no inconsiderable degree of humour . 'Tis true , they possess none of the deep recesses of knowledge and morality which are to be found , in the Speftator , Rambler , and many other perodical publica-
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Anecdotes Of The Late Hugh Kelly, Esq.
and , high connections cannot simply give , because the former issues from the heart , and is invigorated in the confidence of that Providence which strepgthens and confirms virtue . Mrs . Kelly proved the truth of this asseition . With no other dowry than her affection she succeeded in " The Way to Keep Him , " at least , as well as any woman we ever knew ; she studied and watched all the little weaknesses of his tempermet them with the most perfeft good
hu-, mour , and rendered his home so pleasing to Mm , that she converted into a domestic man one , who , in the hands of most other women , would , from the temptations of very pleasurable tendencies , and the opportunities of his profession , perhaps have been led into much dissipation . ¦ Doftor Goldsmith , who visited Kelly some years after , confessed this , and was so struck with the comforts and conveniences of Matrimony , that
he proposed for the other sister ; but Kelly resisted this upon very honourable grounds ; he knew his sister-in-law to be the very reverse of his wife in temper and ceconomy ; he likewise knew Goldsmith to . be very thoughtless in respeft to worldly affairs , and not very industrious ; he therefore remonstrated with him on the great impropriety of such a match , ' till with some difficulty and address he weaned him from the pursuit .
What Kelly thought of his wife himself was best evidenced by his conduft , which always gave the impression of a very attentive domestic husband . lie likewise gave a written proof of his affeftion , by addressing to her a Sonnet , under the name of Myra , some years after their marriage , which , perhaps , considering the general habits of husbands , excels more in novelty of princip le than ideas . Our Author now having got what is called settledin the world , changed
his habitation ( which , as he himself used to say , was that which by reversing the house would form the first floor ) and took apartments in Middle Temple Lane , which he furnished very genteelly , and occasionally gave his leg of mutton and bottle to his friends , with a frankness , a conversatioirand hospitality that was very acceptable , and threw the cold civilities of higher tables at a distance . ?; To enable him to do all thishe spurred both the side of his ambition
, and his industry : he commenced a series of Essays in Owen ' s Weekly Chronicle , which he afterwards collected , and bound up in two pocket volnmes , called " 'lhe Babbler . " Pie likewise wrote a Novel called " Louisa Mildmay , or the History of a Magdalen , " which was much read and esteemed , and which he dedicated to the late Duchess of Northumberland .
The merit of both these . works must be judged by referring to the education , the time of life , and opportunities of the Author , and , considering them in this view , place him much above the ranks of ordinary men . His Babblers , though they exhibit chat-afters of particular -manners more than general nature , yet discover some quickness of observation , a fertility of invention , and no inconsiderable degree of humour . 'Tis true , they possess none of the deep recesses of knowledge and morality which are to be found , in the Speftator , Rambler , and many other perodical publica-