. Kings of the platform and pulpit ... : personal reminiscences and anecdotes of noted Americans. rkeeper, and denounced the lecturer as an imposter—and,said the wealthy parishioner, as for the panorama, it is the worse painted thing Iever saw. During the lecture, Artemus was always as solemn as the grave. Sometimes hewould seem to forget his audience, and stand for several seconds gazing intently athis panorama. Then he would start up and remark apologetically, I am very fondof looking at my pictures. His dress was always the same—evening toilet. Hismanners were polished and his voice gentle
. Kings of the platform and pulpit ... : personal reminiscences and anecdotes of noted Americans. rkeeper, and denounced the lecturer as an imposter—and,said the wealthy parishioner, as for the panorama, it is the worse painted thing Iever saw. During the lecture, Artemus was always as solemn as the grave. Sometimes hewould seem to forget his audience, and stand for several seconds gazing intently athis panorama. Then he would start up and remark apologetically, I am very fondof looking at my pictures. His dress was always the same—evening toilet. Hismanners were polished and his voice gentle and hesitating. Many who had read ofthe man who spelled joke with a g looked for a smart old man with a shrewdcock eye, dressed in vulgar velvet and gold, and they were hardly prepared to seethe accomplished gentleman with slim physique and delicate white hands. The letters of Artemus Ward in Punch, from the tomb of Shakespeare and theLondon Tower, had made him famous in England, and in his audience were thenobility of the realm. His first lecture in London was delivered at Egyptian Hall,.
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