Reminiscences of Michael Kelly of the Kings Theatre And Theatre Royal Drury L
Reminiscences of Michael Kelly of the Kings Theatre And Theatre Royal Drury L
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the ugliest fellow I ever beheld ! He had formerly been in the army, and after running through a small patrimony, resided with an aunt in Alsace, on the very spot where Voltaire, when travelling, was taken seriously ill. In this part of the world, Voltaire was equally unknown, as a poet or a deist ; and the good people of Alsace, in whose house he was, and who spoke hardly any French, thought the best thing they could do for a dying man, would be to procure for him the conso- lations of religio...n. Every one is acquainted with Voltaire's hatred for priests and monks, and may conceive how he was disposed to religion by the introduction of one of the clergy into his bed-room, without his knowledge. The unconscious offender, a simple, pious man, walked up to the bed with zeal and solemnity, and, drawing the curtains aside, said to Voltaire, in French, " Sir, can you speak French ?" What the emphatic reply of the philo- MICHAEL KELLY. 149 pher was, I must be excused from mentioning-; suffice it to say, it was accompanied by an order to his valet to kick the priest down stairs !
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the ugliest fellow I ever beheld ! He had formerly been in the army, and after running through a small patrimony, resided with an aunt in Alsace, on the very spot where Voltaire, when travelling, was taken seriously ill. In this part of the world, Voltaire was equally unknown, as a poet or a deist ; and the good people of Alsace, in whose house he was, and who spoke hardly any French, thought the best thing they could do for a dying man, would be to procure for him the conso- lations of religio...n. Every one is acquainted with Voltaire's hatred for priests and monks, and may conceive how he was disposed to religion by the introduction of one of the clergy into his bed-room, without his knowledge. The unconscious offender, a simple, pious man, walked up to the bed with zeal and solemnity, and, drawing the curtains aside, said to Voltaire, in French, " Sir, can you speak French ?" What the emphatic reply of the philo- MICHAEL KELLY. 149 pher was, I must be excused from mentioning-; suffice it to say, it was accompanied by an order to his valet to kick the priest down stairs !
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