Biographical And Historical Essays By Thomas De Quincey
Biographical And Historical Essays By Thomas De Quincey
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He lived latterly at Kensington, namely, in Holland House, the well-known residence of the late Lord Holland ; and the tradition attached to the gallery in that house, is, that duly as the sun drew near to setting, on two tables, one at each end of the long ambulachrum, the right honorable Joseph placed, or caused to be placed, two tumblers of brandy, somewhat diluted with water; and those, the said vessels, then and there did alternately to the lips of him, the aforesaid Joseph, diligently app...ly, walking to and fro during the process of exhaustion, and dividing his attention between the two poles, arctic and nntartic, of his evening diaulos, with the impartiality to >e expected from a member of the Privy Council. How >ften the two " blessed bears, " northern and southern, were replenished, entered into no affidavit that ever reached me. But so much I have always understood that in the gallery of Holland House, the ex-secretary of state caught a decided hiccup, which never after- wards subsided.
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