Samuel Foote, 1720-1777.
Charles Macklin (1699-1797), actor and playwright, said in a lecture on oratory that by practice he had brought his memory to such perfection that he could learn anything by rote on once hearing or reading it. Foote (a more important dramatist and actor) wrote out the above and handed it up to Macklin to read and then repeat from memory! The passage was very familiar to us from Miss Edgeworth’s Harry and Lucy; and also from Verdant Green, by Cuthbert Bede (Edward Bradley) where it was set in the bogus examination paper “To be turned into Latin after the manner of the Animals of Tacitus.”
You feel o’er you stealing
The old familiar, warm, champagny, brandy-punchy, feeling.
J. R. Lowell (Old College Rooms).
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat
One’s self.