Conversations of Lord Byron With the Countess of Blessington
Conversations of Lord Byron With the Countess of Blessington
Marguerite Gardiner
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M'lTII LORD HYRON. 197 Talking- of Mr. Ward, ' Lord Byron said — " Ward is one of the best-informed men I know, and, in a tcte-d-tcte, is one of the most agreeable companions. He has great originality, and, being tres distrait, it adds to the piquancy of his ob- servations, which are sometimes somewhat trop naive, though always amusing. This naivete of his is the more piquant from his being really a good-natured man, who unconsciously thinks aloud. Interest Ward on a subject, and I know no one ...who can talk better. His expressions are concise without being poor, and terse and epigrammatic without being affected. He can compress (continued Byron) as much into a few words as any one I know ; and if he gave more of his attention to his associates, and less to him- self, he would be one of the few whom one could praise, without being compelled to use the conjunction but. Ward has bad health, and unfortunately, like all valetudinarians, it occu- pies his attention too much, which will proba- bly bring on a worse state, " continued Byron, *' that of confirmed egoism, — a malady, that, 1 Now Lord Dudley.
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