Collections And Recollections, Or, Historical, Biographical, And Miscellaneous Anecdotes, Notices, And Sketches From Various Sources With Occasional Remarks
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She survived this adored husband two years, and then died, broken- hearted, for his loss." — Miss Seward's Life of Dr Dar- CHARACTER OF ORATOR HENLEY. In that division of Mr D'Israeli's " Calamities of Au- thors," inscribed. Disappointed genius takes a fatal direction by its abuse, he introduces Mr Orator Hen- ley as an instance in point. " Henley was one of those men whose wit and learn- ing (of both of which he possessed no small share) were debased by the unprincipled buffoonery of the mount...ebank. His effrontery, which always stood him in good stead, enabled him to browbeat the meek, to impose upon the superficial, and to dazzle the vulgar. 176 COLLECTIONS AND He had sagacity enough to see that it was more easy to obtain a subsistence by making mankind dupes through their creduUty^ than to earn a livelihood by enlightening their reason, and dissipating their pre- judices. He seasoned the lectures which he delivered in his oratory, with ribaldry, jests, and absurdities, which, perhaps, were more current at that time than the present.
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