If you mean that my article itself is light and scanty,
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MEMOIR OF THE REV. SYDNEY SMITH.
I agree to that; reminding you that lightness and
flimsiness are my line of reviewing. If you mean that my notice of M——’sbook is scanty, that also is true; for I
think the book very ill done: still, it is done by an honest, worthy man, who
has neither bread nor butter. How can I be true under such circumstances?
Sydney Smith.
Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
Irish poet and biographer, author of the Irish Melodies (1807-34),
The Fudge Family in Paris (1818), and Lalla
Rookh (1817); he was Byron's close friend and designated biographer.
Title:A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a
Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855).
Electronic Edition:
Series: Lord Byron and his Times: http://lordbyron.org
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