I am very much obliged by your reserving a place for me,
but I have a party of persons who are coming
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MEMOIR OF THE REV. SYDNEY SMITH.
to breakfast
with me; all very common persons, I am ashamed to say, who see with their eyes,
hear with their ears, and trust to the olfactory nerves to discriminate filth
from fragrance. Pray come to us on Thursday, and (oh, Milnes!) save the country!
Sydney Smith.
Richard Monckton Milnes, first baron Houghton (1809-1885)
Poet and politician, a Cambridge ‘apostle’ and friend of Tennyson; he published Life, Letters and Literary Remains of John Keats, 2 vols
(1848).
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Saba Holland; Sarah Austin
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).
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