 | John Nichols - 1812 - 794 sider
...Mr. Henry Fielding with the I first, (Fielding.) " I cannot tell, my Lord," answered Harry, " except it be that my branch of the family were the first that knew how to spell." Mr. Fielding has afforded another instance how much it is to be lamented that genius and talents are... | |
 | 1837 - 860 sider
...Henry with the < first (Fielding). " I cannot tell, my lord,'' answered the great novelist, "except it be that my branch of the family were the first that knew how to spell." MILLKR AND HKRSCHEL. — About the year 1760, as Dr. Miller, the organist, was dining at Pontefract,... | |
 | Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) - 1846 - 362 sider
...spelling it Feild, and the player spelling it Field ? ' I cannot tell,' answered the player ; 'except it be that my branch of the family were the first that knew to spell.' " This anecdote serves to show how long the memory of Field survived ; but the same story... | |
 | Mark Antony Lower - 1849 - 260 sider
...Henry with the i first (Fielding) . " I cannot tell, my lord," answered the great novelist, " except it be that my branch of the family were the first that knew how to spell." Sometimes the spelling of names is so changed that the various branches of one family lose sight of... | |
 | John Noake - 1851 - 430 sider
...first and Mr. Henry with the i first : " I cannot tell, my lord (answered the great novelist), except it be that my branch of the family were the first that knew how to spell." I saw here no other memorials of the dead which are worthy of note, but in the yard is a stone erected... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1852 - 360 sider
...MR HENRY with the i first, Fielding. " I cannot tell, my Lord," answered the great Novelist, "except it be that my branch of the family were the first that knew how to spell." CLXV. CAPTAIN LENTHALL. July 12, 1837. C. Montagu told to me the following story of Captain Lentha'l,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 360 sider
...Fielding," and not " Feilding," like the head of the house ? " I cannot tell, my lord," said he, " except it be that my branch of the family were the first that knew how to spell." the man suffered ; the pressure of want, illness, remorse which he endured; and that the writer was... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 sider
...Fielding," and not " Feilding," like the head of the house ? "I cannot tell, my lord," said he, " except it be that my branch of the family were the first that knew how to spell." 1 In 1749, he was made Justice of the Peace for Westminster and Middlesex, an office then paid by fees,... | |
 | John Payne Collier - 1853 - 676 sider
...spelling itFeild, and the player spelling it Field ? ' I cannot tell,' answered the player ; ' except it be that my branch of the family were the first that knew to spell.' " This aneedote serves to show how long the memory of Field survived ; but the same story... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 sider
...his view of truth never warped, and his eenerous human kindness never surrendered.* said he, " except it be that my branch of the family were the first that knew now to spell." *In 1749, he was made Justice of the Peace for Westminster and Middlesex, an office... | |
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I cannot tell, my lord," said he, " except it be that my branch of the family were the first that knew how to spell. 
