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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 17 : London again.—characters of judges.—Oxford.—Cambridge— November and December , 1838 .—Age, 27 . (search)
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Athenaeum Club , Dec. 28 , 1838 . (search)
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 18 : Stratford-on-avon.—Warwick.—London.—Characters of judges and lawyers.—authors.—society.—January , 1839 , to March , 1839 .—Age, 28 . (search)
Jan. 16, 1839.
This London is socially a bewitching place.
Last evening I first dined with Booth, a Chancery barrister; then went to Rogers's, where was a small party, —Mrs. Marcet, Mrs. Austin, Miss Martineau, Mr. and Mrs. Lyell, Mr. and Mrs. Wedgewood, Harness,
Rev. William Harness. and Milman.
We talked and drank tea, and looked at the beautiful pictures, the original editions of Milton and Spenser, and listened to the old man eloquent (I say eloquent indeed); and so the time passe an influence as to destroy the equilibrium, so to speak, of the table.
He is often a usurper, and we are all resolved into listeners, instead of partakers in the conversational banquet; and I think that all are ill at ease.
Brougham abused Miss Martineau most heartily.
He thought that she excelled in stories, and in nothing else; and that she was a great ass for pronouncing so dogmatically on questions of policy and government.
He exhorted me to write a book on England, to revenge my countr