The autobiography of Leigh Hunt, with reminiscences of friends and contemporaries, and with Thornton Hunt's introduction and postscript . rs in Look to your Morals,are an English valet and a French damsel whom hehas married. He is very jealous; and in order to keepdown the attractiveness of her animal spirits, he hastold her that there is nothing but the most rigid pro-priety in England, both in morals and demeanour, andthat she is to regulate her behaviour accordingly. Thegirl, who is a very innocent girl, believes him; and theconsequence is, that she has to undergo a series ofattentions, whi
The autobiography of Leigh Hunt, with reminiscences of friends and contemporaries, and with Thornton Hunt's introduction and postscript . rs in Look to your Morals,are an English valet and a French damsel whom hehas married. He is very jealous; and in order to keepdown the attractiveness of her animal spirits, he hastold her that there is nothing but the most rigid pro-priety in England, both in morals and demeanour, andthat she is to regulate her behaviour accordingly. Thegirl, who is a very innocent girl, believes him; and theconsequence is, that she has to undergo a series ofattentions, which very much open her French eyes. Iknow not how far the impression of this is to rank withthe unpleasant things that are not to be risked withthe British public. The stage, to be sure, is so much inthe habit of pampering the national self-love, especiallyon the side of its virtues and respectability, and this,too, at the expense of our lively neighbours, that I cansuppose it possible for a theatre to see some danger init. At all events, the manager in whose hands it hasbeen put, kept it by him as safe as gunpowder—so safe 228 ?^f< ,.-- ^^^ J^^^^ J^Ui/n^. f-.,/^.^ y^, ^^-.„,y. ,.. PLAY-WRITING—CONCLUSION indeed, Hibernically speaking, that on a late inquiry forit it appeared to be lost; and I have no complete is old and ailing, however ; and I shall not turn gun-powder myself, and blow him up. [It was found afterthe authors death, and returned to the family.] About a dozen years ago, in consequence of dis-appointments of this kind, and of those before men-tioned, some friends renewed an application to LordMelbourne, which they had made in the reign was thought that my sufferings in the cause ofreform, and my career as a man of letters, renderedme not undeserving a pension. His lordship receivedboth the applications with courtesy; which he does notappear to have shown in quarters where the interestmight have been thought greater; but the pens
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