...occasion to do so — the highest of his preferment being raking in the lowest sinks of vice and misery. I should think it a nobler and less nauseous employment...great pains, half demolished it) made him forget every evil, when he was before a venison-pasty, or over a flask of champagne ; and I am persuaded that he...

...occasion to do so — the highest of his preferment being raking in the lowest sinks of vice and misery. I should think it a nobler and less nauseous employment to be one of the staff-officer* that conduct the nocturnal weddings. His happy constitution (even when he had, with...

...gladness of his disposition. Lady Montague, writing soon after she heard of his death, says that " his happy constitution (even when he had with great pains half demolished it) made him forget every evil, when he was before a venison pasty or over a flask of champagne ; and I am persuaded," she adds,...

...gaiety under every change of fortune. "His happy constitution," says Lady Mafy Montagu, his kinswoman, "even when he had, with great pains, half demolished it, made him forget every evil when he was before a venison pasty and a flask of champagne; and I am persuaded he has known more...

...more than others, as no man enjoyed life more than he did, though few had less reason to do so ... His happy constitution (even when he had with great pains half demolished it) made him forget everything when he was before a venison pasty, or over a flask of champagne ; and I am persuaded he...

...time a mind ever flowing with wit, mirth, and good-humour.1 According to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu,2 " His happy constitution — even when he had, with...great pains, half demolished it — made him forget everything when he was before a venison pasty, or over a flask of champagne ; and I am persuaded,"...

...reason to do so, the highest of his preferment being raking in the lowest sinks of vice and misery. I should think it a nobler and less nauseous employment...he had, with great pains, half demolished it) made * Married Augustus Henry Bute of Graflou, January 29, 1756. f Augustus Earl of Berkeley died January...

...conversation in heaven," and the dissolute humorist who was still the "father of the English novel, "and whose "happy constitution, even when he had with great pains half demolished it, made him forget every evil," so that he could write sketches and plays while starving of which it was said, " Droll Nature...

...conversation in heaven," and the dissolute humorist who was still the "father of the English novel, "and whose "happy constitution, even when he had with great pains half demolished it, made him forget every evil," so that he could write sketches and plays while starving of which it was said, "Droll Nature...

...conversation in heaven," and the dissolute humorist who was still the "father of the English novel, "and whose "happy constitution, even when he had with great pains half demolished it, made him forget every evil," so that he could write sketches and plays while starving of which it was said. "Droll Nature...