 | Abraham Hayward - 1859 - 476 σελίδες
...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. Mr.... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1858 - 470 σελίδες
...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. Mr.... | |
 | 1859 - 806 σελίδες
...calls again,' he said to his servant when he was dying, ' let him in ; if I am alive, I shall be very glad to see him ; and if I am dead, he will be very glad to see me') — he was yet utterly untrustworthy. The political latitudinarianism of the... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton - 1861 - 520 σελίδες
...Lord Holland, when dying, ordered his servant to be sure to admit Mr. Selwyn if he called to inquire after him, " for if I am alive," said he, " I shall...frivolity of the woman who could take no interest in any thing worth seeing. " You don't know what you missed in the other room," he cried at last, peevishly.... | |
 | Sir John Skelton - 1862 - 512 σελίδες
...calls again," he said to his servant when he was dying, " let him in ; if I am alive I shall be very glad to see him ; and if I am dead, he will be very glad to see me") — he was yet utterly untrustworthy. The political latitudinarianism of the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1862 - 880 σελίδες
...to his servant, ' The next time Mr Selwyn calls, show him up : if I am alive, I shall be delighted eased, and how long it had continued. . . . On the Monday eve story has been often told of George Selwyn, that he went to Paris, in 1756, on purpose to see the execution... | |
 | John Timbs - 1864 - 378 σελίδες
...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. " How do... | |
 | Thomas Edward Kebbel - 1864 - 428 σελίδες
..." If Mr. Selwyn calls again," he said to his servant, " let him in ; if I am alive, I shall be very glad to see him, and, if I am dead, he will be very glad to see me !" The " accuser" here alluded to is, we suppose, Lord Macaulay, who, in his second... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton - 1867 - 574 σελίδες
...the occasion was one of their greatest recommendations. A good saying, like a good sermon, depends much on its delivery, and loses much in print. Nothing...anecdote told by Walpole. Selwyn was looking over Combury with Lord Abergavenny and Mrs. Frere, ' who loved one another a little,' and was disgusted... | |
 | Andrew Steinmetz - 1870 - 502 σελίδες
...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." When some ladies bantered him on his want of feeling in attending to see the terrible Lord Lovat's... | |
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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. 
