This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ... 1853. delicacy and elegance of Moore's language, and memory itself cannot embody again the kind of frost-work of imagery, which was formed and melted on his lips. His voice is soft or firm as the subject requires, but perhaps the word gentlemanly describes it better than any other. It is upon a natural key, but, if I ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ... 1853. delicacy and elegance of Moore's language, and memory itself cannot embody again the kind of frost-work of imagery, which was formed and melted on his lips. His voice is soft or firm as the subject requires, but perhaps the word gentlemanly describes it better than any other. It is upon a natural key, but, if I may so phrase it, it is fused with a high-bred affectation, expressing deference and courtesy, at the same time, that its pauses are constructed peculiarly to catch the ear. It would be difficult not to attend to him, though the subject were but the shape of a wine-glass.--N. P. Willis (" Pencillings by the Way "). I must say, Moore's tone, in conversation, is perfect. He appears to me to be as well bred as if he had been born in the circle in which he moves, and in which he is treated by the highest as their peer. He is not devoid of self-complacency--it would be odd if he were--but it is not an offensive self-complacency: it is innocent and innocuous. He knows his gifts; and if he did not, all the fine ladies of London have done their best to enlighten him on that point.--J. C. Young (" Memoir of C. M. Young," etc.).' "I never spent an hour with Moore," said Byron, "without being ready to apply to him the expression attributed to Aristophanes, 'You have spoken 1 Young (Julian Charles). A Memoir of Charles M. Young, Tragedian, with Extracts from his Son's Journal. I2mo. London and New York, 1871. roses;' his thoughts and expressions have all the beauty and freshness of those flowers, but the piquancy of his wit, and the readiness of his repartees, prevent one's ear being cloyed by too much sweets, and one cannot 'die of a rose in aromatic pain' with Moore; though he does speak roses, there is such an endless...
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