good taste of her caps. At another time, he insisted on teaching
her Latin. That, with all his coarseness and
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irritability, he was a man of sterling benevolence, has long been
acknowledged. But how gentle and endearing his deportment could
be, was not known till the recollections of Madame.D'Arblay were
published.

We have mentioned a few of the most eminent of those who paid
their homage to the author of " Evelina." The crowd of inferior
admirers would require a catalogue as long as that in the second
book of the " Iliad." In that catalogue would be Mrs.
Cholmondeley, the sayer of odd things; and Seward, much given to
yawning; and Baretti, who slew the man in the Haymarket ; and
Paoli, talking broken English; and Langton, taller by the head
than any other member of the club; and Lady Millar, who kept a
vase wherein fools were wont to put bad verses ; and Jerningham,
who wrote verses fit to be put into the vase of Lady Millar; and
Dr. Franklin-not, as some have dreamed, the great Pennsylvanian
Dr. Franklin, who could not then have paid his respects to Miss
Burney without much risk of being hanged, drawn, and quartered,
but Dr. Franklin the less.

A'tag ,uEiwv, ort r6aroC yE 6aoc TEXap6vtoC Atag, i1XX,i rOV
JLEi&)V.

It would not have been surprising if such success had turned even
a strong head and corrupted even a generous and affectionate
nature. But in the "Diary," we can find no trace of any feeling