again and again, and there can be no affectation in this. I cannot be mistaken (except in taste) in a book I read and lay down, and take up again; and no book can be totally bad which finds
one
, even
one
reader, who can say as much sincerely.
Campbell talks of lecturing next spring; his last lectures were eminently successful. Moore thought of it, but gave it up,—I don't know why. —— had been prating
dignity
to him, and such stuff; as if a man disgraced himself by instructing and pleasing at the same time.
to Marquis Buckingham—saw Lord Gower