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Memoirs, Journal, and Correspondence of Thomas Moore (1); Memoirs of Myself. Letters, 1793-1806. Duel With Jeffrey. Letters, 1807-1813
Memoirs Journal and Correspondence of Thomas Moore Memoirs of Myself Letters 17931806 Duel With Jeffrey Letters 18071813 - 1 Author:Thomas Moore Volume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1853 Original Publisher: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans Subjects: Poets, Irish Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you g... more »et free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: [No. 157.] To his Mother. Donington Park, Friday, 1811. My dearest Mother, I got Kate's last letter here from town, and am delighted to think that you are all well and happy. Nothing can equal the luxury of this house, especially since Monsieur's arrival. I can imagine that it may be surpassed, but I am sure it seldom is : the Prince of Conde and the Duke of Bourbon have come with him. How does Herbert's play go on? Tell him I wish to have a particular description of the situation in which he desires to have the song introduced, and I shall endeavour to make out something suitable to it. If I could, I should like very much to return to Ireland with Lord and Lady Granard; but it is not very probable. Send the enclosed letter to Mrs. Mills: it will save her so much postage, and I ought to have written to her. Love to Kate, dear father, and yourself. Tom Moore. [no. 15s.] To Lady Donegal. Saturday, August 17. 1811. The season is now, indeed, so far gone, that I should not wonder if I were yet to have you witnesses of my first plunge ; and oh! if 1 could pack a whole audience like you, with such taste for what is good, and such indulgence for what is bad; but I think there is not in the world so stupid or boorish a congregation as the audience of an Vol. i. 8 English playhouse. I have latterly attended a good deal, and I really think that when an author makes them laugh, he ought to feel like Phocion when the Athenians applauded him, and ask what wretched betise had produced the tribute. I have been a good...« less