Author: Lady Holland; Sydney Smith; Mrs Austin
Title: A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith by His Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from His Letters.
Description: London, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1855. Leather. A second edition of Volume 2 of A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. Sydney Smith (1771  1845) was an English wit, writer and Anglican cleric. Smith's reputation among his contemporaries as a humourist and wit grew to such an extent that a number of the observations which are now attributed to him may be of doubtful provenance. Lord Houghton recorded that he never, except once, knew Smith to make a jest of any religious subject, "and then he immediately withdrew his words, and seemed ashamed that he had uttered them". To be set against that encomium is one of Smith's best-known lines, to the effect that his friend Henry Luttrell's idea of heaven was eating pâté de foie gras to the sound of trumpets. Long after his death, he is often quoted in English literary life and is remembered by homemakers in the United States through his rhyming recipe for salad dressing. In a quarter-calf binding with marbled boards. Externally a trifle rubbed with some wear to the spine which is lifting. Internally hinges are starting but firm. Pages bright and clean throughout with the odd spot, although with some foxing to the first and last few pages as usual. Ink inscription to page opposite the title page dated 1898. Good Only . Ill.: None. Good Only .
Keywords: Sydney Smith Anglican Poetry Biography Anglican None
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Title: A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith by His Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from His Letters.
Description: London, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1855. Leather. A second edition of Volume 2 of A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. Sydney Smith (1771  1845) was an English wit, writer and Anglican cleric. Smith's reputation among his contemporaries as a humourist and wit grew to such an extent that a number of the observations which are now attributed to him may be of doubtful provenance. Lord Houghton recorded that he never, except once, knew Smith to make a jest of any religious subject, "and then he immediately withdrew his words, and seemed ashamed that he had uttered them". To be set against that encomium is one of Smith's best-known lines, to the effect that his friend Henry Luttrell's idea of heaven was eating pâté de foie gras to the sound of trumpets. Long after his death, he is often quoted in English literary life and is remembered by homemakers in the United States through his rhyming recipe for salad dressing. In a quarter-calf binding with marbled boards. Externally a trifle rubbed with some wear to the spine which is lifting. Internally hinges are starting but firm. Pages bright and clean throughout with the odd spot, although with some foxing to the first and last few pages as usual. Ink inscription to page opposite the title page dated 1898. Good Only . Ill.: None. Good Only .
Keywords: Sydney Smith Anglican Poetry Biography Anglican None
Price: GBP 19.99 = appr. US$ 28.55 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: LTH11-C-3
- Book number: LTH11-C-3
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