pleasure I ever derived, of this kind was from an extract, in Cooke the actor's life, from his journal
, stating that in the reading-room at Albany, near Washington, he perused
English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers
. To be popular in a rising and far country has a kind of
posthumous feel
, very different from the ephemeral
éclat
and fête-ing, buzzing and party-ing compliments of the well-dressed multitude. I can safely say that, during my
reign