Society in the Country House
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Among the art treasures of the place is Olivia, in "The Vicar of Wakefield, " brought back to her home, with her face hidden in her father's bosom, by Newton, an artist whom Lord Lansdowne discovered. " It is not very difficult, " sneered Theodore Hook " to paint a figure without the face. " " But it is very difficult, " rejoined Constable, " to paint a sob. Lord Lansdowne saw, felt the sob, and bought it. " "A right-divine gentleman, " was Serjeant Talfourd's remark on his host, after a stay a...t Bowood. " He looks, " said Sydney Smith, " for talents and qualities amongst all ranks of men, and adds them to his stock of society as a botanist does plants. " To-day the fifth Marquis of Lansdowne's guests may sit down to the same table at which Samuel Rogers, placed between Hallam and Macaulay, talked of their wrangling and fighting over him as over a dead body. They may lose themselves in the 353 z In Squire Western's Land crowd of grim statues as those amid which Adolphe Thiers once fell asleep, suddenly to be awakened by the Shakespearian critic, Payne Knight, and, rubbing his eyes, with a look at his marble companions, to fancy he had unconsciously passed into another world.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Among the art treasures of the place is Olivia, in "The Vicar of Wakefield, " brought back to her home, with her face hidden in her father's bosom, by Newton, an artist whom Lord Lansdowne discovered. " It is not very difficult, " sneered Theodore Hook " to paint a figure without the face. " " But it is very difficult, " rejoined Constable, " to paint a sob. Lord Lansdowne saw, felt the sob, and bought it. " "A right-divine gentleman, " was Serjeant Talfourd's remark on his host, after a stay a...t Bowood. " He looks, " said Sydney Smith, " for talents and qualities amongst all ranks of men, and adds them to his stock of society as a botanist does plants. " To-day the fifth Marquis of Lansdowne's guests may sit down to the same table at which Samuel Rogers, placed between Hallam and Macaulay, talked of their wrangling and fighting over him as over a dead body. They may lose themselves in the 353 z In Squire Western's Land crowd of grim statues as those amid which Adolphe Thiers once fell asleep, suddenly to be awakened by the Shakespearian critic, Payne Knight, and, rubbing his eyes, with a look at his marble companions, to fancy he had unconsciously passed into another world.
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