 | Robert Chambers - Chronology, Historical - 1862 - 880 pages
...informed that George had been inquiring for him, he said to his servant, ' The next time Mr Selwyn . y F H{ Ǽ3VVi d# 7IF B & YK S @" ]։ \O 9Rg L Lw@,㓘# ' k % glad to see me." The story has been often told of George Selwyn, that he went to Paris, in 1756, on... | |
 | John Timbs - Anecdotes - 1864 - 378 pages
...friend Selwyn had called to inquire after his health. " The next time Mr. Selwyn calls," said Lord H., " 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." Selwyn told a friend that Arthur More had had his coffin chained to that of his mistress.... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1867 - 578 pages
...executions " *—had called to inquire after his health. " The next time," he said, " that. Mr. Selwyn calls, show him up : if I am alive, I shall be delighted to see him; if I am dead, he will be glad to see me." f Lady Holland survived her husband only twenty-three days.... | |
 | 1870 - 972 pages
...intimacy with him, had called to inquire after his health: "The next time Mr. Selwyn calls," said he, "show him up ; if I am alive, I shall be delighted to see him ; if I am dead, he will be glad to see me." When some ladies bantered him on his want of feeling in... | |
 | William Carew Hazlitt - Anecdotes - 1871 - 406 pages
...took place. " Be careful," said his lordship, " in case Mr Selwyn comes again, to show him up; for if I am alive, I shall be delighted to see him, and if I am not, he, I am sure, will be very much pleased to see me." 799TV/TALHERBE, the celebrated French advocate... | |
 | John Timbs - Historic buildings - 1872 - 598 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." Lord Holland (the famous Whig), called on Lord Lansdowne a little before his... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1873 - 480 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.... | |
 | American literature - 1873 - 808 pages
...bed, he heard that George Selwyn had called. "The next time Mr. Selwyn calls," said his lordship, " show him up. If I am alive, I shall be delighted to see him ; if I am dead, he'll be delighted to see me." — From Colburris New Monthly Magazine. CLASS DISTINCTIONS.... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English essays - 1874 - 496 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.... | |
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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. 
