 | England - 1844 - 814 pages
...been an old friend, had called to enquire for his health. " The next time Mr Selwyn calls," said he, " show him up; if I am alive, I shall be delighted to...and, if I am dead, he will be delighted to see me." Walpole says, after telling a story of one Arthur Moore, " I told thislhe other day to George Selwyn,... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1843 - 440 pages
...intimacy with him, had called to inquire after his health. " The next time Mr. Selwyn calls," he said, " show him up : — if I am alive I shall be delighted to see him, and if I am dead he will be glad to see me." And yet this was the same individual who delighted in the first words, and in the... | |
 | Books - 1843 - 574 pages
...intimacy with him, had called to enquire after his health. " The next time Mr. Selwyn calls," he said, " show him up : — if I am alive I shall be delighted to see him, and if I am dead he will be glad to see me." There are but very few features or passages in Selwyn's own life that can be regarded... | |
 | 1844 - 702 pages
...for this peculiarity. The best is the first Lord Holland's, who was dying. ' The next time Mr Selwyn calls, show ' him up. If I am alive, I shall be delighted to see him; and if ' I am dead, he will be glad to see me.' Lord Holland was not the only statesman of the period who could joke under such circumstances.... | |
 | LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMANS - 1844 - 652 pages
...for this peculiarity. The best is the first Lord Holland's, who was dying. ' The next time Mr Selwyn calls, show " him up. If I am alive, I shall be delighted to see him; and if ' I am dead, he will be glad to see me.' Lord Holland was not the only statesman of the period who could joke under such circumstances.... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Politicians - 1844 - 414 pages
...Glancing at it for a moment, he observed with a mournful pleasantry : " If Mr. Selwyn calls again, shew him up : if I am alive I shall be delighted to see him ; and if I am dead he would like to see me." Lady Holland survived her husband only twenty-three days; and only five months... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1850 - 612 pages
...Lord Holland, fully comprehending his feeling, is said to have remarked, '" If Mr. Selwyn calls again, show him up; if I am alive I shall be delighted to see him, and if I am dead he would like to see me.' Walter Scott thus speaks of this ' brave old house,' as Wai pole terms it :... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1850 - 608 pages
...Lord Holland, fully comprehending his feeling, is said to have remarked, 'If Mr. Sehvvn calls again, show him up; if I am alive I shall be delighted to see him, and if I am dead he would like to see me.' Walter Scott thus speaks of this 'brave old house,' as Wai pole terms it : —... | |
 | Peter Cunningham - 1851 - 382 pages
...dying lord, fully comprehending his feeling, is said to have remarked, " If Mr. Selwyn calls again, show him up ; if I am alive I shall be delighted to see him, and if I am dead he would like to see me." The lato Lord Holland called on Lord Lansdowne a little before his death, and... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1851 - 420 pages
...Glancing at it for a moment, he observed with a mournful pleasantry : " If Mr. Selwyn calls again, shew him up ; if I am alive I shall be delighted to see him ; and if I am dead he would like to see me." — Selwyn's Memoirs, vol. iii, p. 50. The Abbe Raynal presented himself at... | |
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The next time Mr. Selwyn calls, show him up. If I am alive, I shall be delighted to see him ; and if I am dead, he will be glad to see me. 
