Sydney Smith

iss Caroline Holland. He had a long and slightly aquiline nose, of the type which gives a peculiar trenchancy to the counten

above it than below, and sturdily built. He used to quote a saying from one of his contemporaries at Oxford-"Sydney, your sense, wit, and clumsiness, always give me the idea of an Athenian carter." Except on ceremonio

rded him with "a curious mixture of reverence and grin."[147] His daughter says that, "on entering the pulpit, the calm dignity of his eye, mien, and voice, made one fee

ase and in accuracy, but never lost either its force or its resonance. It ran up and down the whole gamut of the English tongue, from sesquipedalian classicisms (which he generally used to heighten a comic effect) to one-syllabled words of the homeliest Anglo-Saxon. His punctuation was careless, and the impression produced by his written composition is that of a man who wrote exactly as he spoke,

e come down to us in an authentic and unmutilated form. Almost alone among professional jokers, he made his merriment-rich, natural, fantastic, unbridled as it was-subserve the serious purposes of his life and writing. Each joke was a link in an argument; each sarcasm was a moral lesson. Peter Plymley, and the Letters to Archdeacon Singleton, the essays on America and on Persecuting Bishops, will probably be read as long as the

e would wear, the tie that no one would loose." His fondness for Lord Grey's family led him to call himself "Grey-men-ivorous." When the Hollands were staying with him, "his house was as full of hollands as a gin-shop." He nicknamed Sir George Philips's home near Manchester Philippi. He ascribed his brother's ugly mansion at Cheam to "Chemosh, the abomination of Moab." In 1831 he wrote to his friend Mrs. Meynell that "the French Government was far from stable-like M

his health. I said that he was a buckle without a tongue. Most persons within hearing laughed, but my next neighbour sat unmoved and sunk in thought. At last, a quarter of an hour after we had all done, he suddenly nudged m

could never have charged himself. His own "executive coarseness" is referable in part to the social standard of the day, when ladies as refined as the Miss Berrys "d--d" the too-hot tea-kettle, and Canning referred to a political opponent as "the revered and ruptured Member." In a similar vein Sydney jo

small-tooth comb in domestic life; nothing less delicate than the imaginary "Suckling Act" in which he burlesques Lord Shaftesbury's Ten Hours Bill. He barbs his attacks on an oppressive Government by jokes about the ugliness of Perceval's face and the poverty of Canning's relations-the pensions conferred on "Sophia" and "Caroline," their "national veal" and "public tea"; and the "clouds of cousins arriving by the waggon." When a bishop has insulted him, he replies with an insinuation that the bishop obtained his preferment by fraud and misrepresentation,[153] and jeers at him for having begun life a

been made, we can return to the most

or in any opinion which I have need to recant; and th

as the convinced, eager, and devoted friend of Freedom, and that without distinction of plac

, but speak of it with abhorrence, as t

world had ever seen. And this because in America, more than in any other country, each citizen was free to live his own life, manage his own affairs, and work out his own destiny, under the protection

will satisfy enlightened people perhaps, but none that the mass will be satisfied with. I am d

nk all wise men should b

writes about the state o

mon

ssembly where the majority are paid and hired, and a few bold and able

liberty, what can be finer than his pro

eir earliest days. I like the idea of saying to men who use a different hassock from me, that till they change their hassock, they shall never be Colonels, Aldermen, or Parliament-men. While I am gra

d-they may turn round and hurt us. It might be wiser to try our hands on some small body like the Evange

risk, because their numbers are (as yet) not very considerable. Cruelty and injustice must, of course, exist: but why connect them with danger? Why torture a bull-dog, when you can get a frog or a rabbit? I am sure my proposal will meet with the most universal

never forsook the good cause for which he had fought so steadily, never made terms with political deserters. After the Conservative triumph

. "If I am to be a slave," he said, "I would rather be the slave of a king than of a rabble"; but he vehemently objected to being the slave of either. He likened Democracy and Despotism to the "two tubes of a double-barrelled pistol," which menaced th

ction of the Reform Bill, he strenuously demanded stern pu

isoned; it is absolutely necessary to give the multitude a severe blow, for their conduct at Bristol has been most

shrink from drawing the sword at the bidding of real necessity, but asks itself once and agai

orally bound to defend her existence and her freedom. He exhorted her to rally all her forces and strive with agonies and energies against the an

n this kingdom and destroyed that army: we will thank God for a Kin

the people; but the worst of evils and the greatest of follies have been varnished over with specious names, an

could attract his sympathy. Wars of intervention in the affairs of other nation

t liberties of Spain wer

thousand acts of oppression which I should like to resent, but I cannot afford to p

ag

of the Jews; the people of the Sandwich Islands are groaning under the most detestable tyranny; Bagdad is oppressed-I do not like the present state of the Delta-Thibet is not comfortable. Am I to fight for all these people? The world is bursting wi

friend Lady Holland abou

ral

rds while I live, and that a captain of the Guards will be as ignorant of the colour of blood as the rector of a parish. We have had im

ng to Lord Houghton,

must think a little of myself. I want to sit under my own

ous spirit. It is merely the old doctrine of

such as he remembered at Harrogate. "I thought it the most heaven-forgotten country under the sun when I saw it; there were only nine mangy fir-trees there, and even they all leaned away from it." He enjoyed bright colours and sweet scents, and had a passion for light.

the moon in the corner was rather dingy when I first bought it; so I h

rlesque, and so may his sympatheti

d, he exclaimed, turning to me, 'Immense breadth of light and shade!' I innocently sa

ncere. It may perhaps be imputed to him for ?sthetic virtue that he considered the national monuments in St. Paul's, with the sole exception of Dr. Johnson

ns. Music in the minor key made him melancholy, and had to be discontinued when he

isgusting than an orat

ddling like madmen abo

Se

era, by Bellini, I Puritani, was dreadfully tiresome, and unintelli

whole thing seems to me so childish and so foolish that I cannot abide it. Moreover, it would be rather out of etiquette for a Canon

Festival at York

lan

t attended to, as well as quality? I know nothing more agreeable than a dinner at Holland House; but it must not begin at ten in the morning, and last till six.

erfection," His daughter says, with filial piety, that, when he had once learnt a song, he sang it very correctly, and, "having a really fine voice, often encored himself." A lady who visited him at Combe Fl

sic. All musical people seem to me happy; it is the most engro

he fine scholarship of Monk[164] and Blomfield[165] and Maltby.[166] The fact that Marsh[167] was a man of learning mitigated the severity of the attack on "Persecuting Bishops." His glowing tribute to the accomplishments of Sir James Mackintosh is qualified by the remark that "the Greek language has never cros

te to his son

mber, always in books, keep the best company. Don't read a line of Ovid till you have mastered Virgil; nor

blished in the shape of letters"; and dismissed Madame de Sévigné as "very much over-praised." Of Montaigne he says-"He thinks al

these formal reviews, his letters are full of curious comments. In 1814 he declines to read the Edinburgh's

inclined to suspect, in reading it, that

about The Heart

e is introduced, and of which I forget the name.... He repeats his characters, but it seems

182

and the most easily read through, of all Sco

the sam

and hardly worth reading. He has exhausted the subject of Scotland, and worn out the few characters that

182

seems now that he cannot write without Meg Merrilies and Dominie Sampson. One other

182

on, between his best and his wo

s previous work, but "laboured in an inferior way, and more careless, with many repetit

ays of Ancient Rome, on the ground that he "abhorred all Grecian and Roman subjects." It is curious to note the number and variety of new books which he more or

ut against Mr. Dickens as long as

writes to

first-rate painting, such as no one but yourself can execute.

s asks him to di

ater genius than yourself, or one by whose works I have been more completely intere

rcles of London to assert the value of Modern Painters. "He said it was a work of transcendent talent, presented the most

diligently and practised courageously. But he recommended Botany, with some confidence, as "certain to delight little girls"; and his friendship with the amiable and inst

Caroline and Emily, where Caroline should always give wrong explanations in ch

view of life, Sydney Smith would seem, at first sight, to have been a Utilitarian:

er into their calculations. If everything is to be sacrificed to utility, why do you bury your

the world had been a chess-board. Any system, social, political, or philosophical, which did not directly

the interests of the individual! If this be true, there is an end of all reasoning and all morals: and if any man asks, Why am I to do wh

is eager and generous humanitarianism. He thought all speculation, which did not bear directly on the welfare and happiness of human beings, a waste of ingenuity; and yet, at the same time, he taught that all practical systems, which left out of account the emotional and sentime

le; but I have more often seen her among little children, and by home fi

scarred like a soldier's body," and, when he lost his infant boy, he said-"Ch

talogue of "Modern Changes" which he compiled in ol

ncient times l

ky I was born

n the best society one third of the

of temperance, Sydney Smith was far

tor of the

lean and sall

"; but he had a curiously keen sense of the evils induced by "the sweet poyson."[172] As early as 1814 he urged Lord Holland to "leave off wine entirel

wine, but thoughtlessness and unconscious imitation: other men poke out their hands for the revolving wine, and one does the same, without thinking of it. All people above

to Lady Holland (

as, I sleep like a baby or a plough-boy. If I wake, no needless terrors, no black visions of life, but pleasing hopes and pleasing recollections: Holland House, past and to come! If I dream, it is not of lions and tigers, but of Easter dues and tithes. Secondly,

4 he w

ith a million insects in every drop. He who drinks a tumbler of London water has literally in hi

ng analysis he persevered,

, and spare the great toe. Looking back at my past life, I find that all my miseries of body and mind have proceeded from ind

ck of omitting the proper name wherever we specially thi

ect a thimbleful of wine has upon me; I feel as flat as--'s jokes; it destroys my understanding: I forget the number of the Muses, and thin

nk was closely connected in Sydney Smith with a clear se

affected by beef, mutton, pie-crust, and rich soups. I have often thought I could feed or starve men into many virtues and

l, to have had occasional tendencies to melancholy. "An extreme depression of spirits," he write

made me merry. I think it a better gift than m

ion that, having embraced the character of an honest man and a friend to rational liberty, I

t as so much dirty linen." After reading Burke, and praising his "beautiful and fruitful imagination," he says-"With the politics of so remote a period I do not concern myself." He had a robust confidence in the cheering virtues of air and exercise, early hours and cold water, light and warmth, temperance in tea and coffee as well as wine-"Apothegms of old women," as he truly said, but tested b

laughed as violently. The poor old lady, who was sleeping in a garret because she could not bear to enter into the room lately inhabited by her husband, sent for me and kissed me, sobbing with a thousand emo

one on which he most constantly and most earnestly

om days and years to come, and which considers its own unhappy visions as the decrees of

y suggests the question-What was Sydney Smith's religion?

and have fought against them; but I have an unaffected horror of irreligion and impiety, and every pr

an Atheist who told me what he had said in his heart."[175] And in 1808 he wr

re that the Review shall not profess or encourage infidel principles? Unless this

ctly those which satisfied Paley. Lord Murray, who, though he was a judge, does not seem to hav

y, who had observed him evidently well satisfied with his repast, said, 'You must admit there is great genius and thought in tha

y's illustration of the Watch, rep

s for the construction of the physical universe and the conduct of this present life. He looked above

light fool who comes with the feather of wit to crumble the bulwarks of truth, and to beat down the Temples of God. We count over the pious spirits of the world, the beautiful writers, the great statesmen, all who have invented subtlely, who have thought deeply, who have executed wisely:-all these are proofs that we are destined for a second life; and it is not possible to belie

deserves it. This old truth is the fountain of all goodness, and justice, and kindness a

facts, and of these we have such evidence as ought to satisfy us, till it appears that mankind have ever been deceived by proofs as numerous and as strong." Having convinced himself that the Christian religion was true, he was loyal in word and act to what he had accepted.

us will perish in their vices. The free pardon of confessed sin-access to happiness through a Divine Mediation-in a word, the Doctrine of the Cross-seems, as far as his recorded utterances go, to have been quite alien from his system of religion. The appeal to personal experience of sinfulness, forgiveness, and acceptance, he would have dismissed as mere enthusiasm-and he declared in his sermon on

aily life. This was "the calm tenor of its language," and the "practical view" of its rule. And, as far as it

s, childish, merciless tyrant; that He is best served by a regular tenour of good actions,-not by bad sin

t to be bright and cheerful, that led him, as far back as the days when he was pre

great passion; and, furious with spleen, clothed ourselves with sackcloth, because she was habited in brocade; rushing, like children, from one extreme to another, and blind to all medium between complication and barrenness, formality and neglect. I am very glad to find we are calling in, more and more, the aid of music to our services. In London, where it can be commanded, good music has a prodigious effect in filli

ed, he had his full share. Never was a stouter Protestant. Even in the passages in which he makes his strongest appeals for the civil right

ax candles, and supers

the Catholic priest

n horror lest twelve o

holy water and C

olic religion as you can be; and no man who talks such

aptism according to the use of the Church of England should not talk about "the sanctified contents of a pump," or describe people who cross themselves as "making right angles upon the breast and forehead." But ti

would expect him to be very sympathetic with the work which bore

gion a religion of postures and ceremonies, of circumflexions and genuflexions, of garments and vestures, of ostentation and parade; that

e Florey

out my black gown, I preach in my surplice; thi

rote to a fr

7] I have no conception what they mean, if it be not to revive every absurd ceremony, and every antiquated folly, which the common sense of mankind has set to sleep. You will find at you

the "Puseyites" and himself, or had bestowed very close attention on what is, after all, mainly a question of Docume

e of their endowments, the Dissenters are infinitely more

hat he once referred to the case of the man who puts his hand to the plough and looks back[179] as being "somewhere in the Epistles." He forgot the names of Job's daughters, until reminded by a neighbouring Squire who had called his greyhounds Jemima, Kezia, and Keren-Happuch. He attributed the Nunc Dimittis to an author vaguely but conveniently known as "The Psalmist," and by so doing drew down on himself the ridicule of Wilson Croker.[180] It may be questioned whether he ever read the Prayer Book except in Church. With the literature of Christian antiquity he had not, so far as his writings show, the slightest acquaintance; and his knowledge of Anglica

eason of peril and distress, must be intimately and deeply pervaded by that feeling.... To know the power of this Sacrament, give it to him whose doom is sealed, who in a few hours w

rtunity; and the happy possessor of a rich and singular talent which he employed through a long life in the willing service of the helpless, the persecuted, and the poor. To use his own fi

at Judge Who stirs good thoughts in honest hearts-under Whose war

rts and on the lips of men. His playful speech was the vehicle of a passionate purpose. From his earliest manhood

Upton Eddis

him, was beautifully fine, silvery, and abundan

Lord H

tes from them such phrases as-"Lays hid," "

See

s. Such catalogues will be found in the previous Memoirs of

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became 7th Duke of

inuation was q

that he "never knew, except once, Sydney Smith to make a jest on any religious subject;

pencer

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f smoking did not interrupt any "immoral, irreligious, or unmathematical track of

s in corde suo; Non

and kept the day as the start of the religiou

ladies in the middle rank of life) there is no religion at all. The Clergy of Englan

Mr. Stu

t. Luke

ew Testament from the Old; the Psalms from the Gospel, David from Simeon; who expatiates so pompously on the duty and benefit of prayer, yet mistakes an

the Queen's Accession. The blunder

aid this o

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n the sauce which pampers man's appetite, and the drug that restores him to health-on the ermine which decorates the judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal-on the poor man's salt, and the rich man's spice-on the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribands of the bride. At bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay-the schoolboy whips his taxed top-the beardless youth manages his taxed horse, with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road;-and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid 7 per cent., into a spoon that

impossible to give your consent. I care very little, Sir, for the ostensible measure; but what is there behind? What are the Honourable Gentleman's future schemes? If we pass this bill, what fresh concessions may he not require? What further degradation is he planning for his country? Talk of evil and inconvenience, Sir! look to other countries-study other aggregations and societies of men, and then see whether the laws of this country demand a remedy or deserve a panegyric. Was the Honourable Gentleman (let me ask him) always of this way of thinking? Do I not remember when he was the advocate in this House of very opposite opinions? I not only quarrel with his present sentiments, Sir, but I declare very frankly I do not like the party with which he acts. If his own motives were as pure as possible, they cannot but suffer contamination from those with whom he is politically associated. This measure may be a boon to the constitution, but I will accept no favour to the constitution from such hands. (Loud cries of hear! hear!) I profess myself, Sir, an honest and upright member of the British Parliament, and I am not afraid to profess myself an enemy to all change, and all innovation. I am satisfied with things as they are; and it will be my pride and pleasure to hand down this country to my children as I received it from those who preceded me. The Honourable Gentleman pretends to justify the severity with which he has attacked the Noble Lord who presides in the Court of Chancery, But I say such attacks are pregnant with mischief to Government itself. Oppose Ministers, you oppose Government; disgrace Ministers, you disgrace Government; bring Ministers into contempt, you bring Government into contempt; and anarchy and civil war are the consequences. Besides, Sir, the measure is unnecessary. Nobody complains of disorder in that shape in which it is the aim of your measure to propose a remedy to it. The business is

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of human life he has been introduced; and I would bring before his notice the following eighteen changes which have taken p

darkness of a twinkling oil lamp, under the protection of watchmen in thei

rom Taunton to Bath, before the invention of railroads, and I now go in six hours from Taunton to London! In going f

ge-springs on the pavement of London; and I now gl

without molestation; or, if tired, get into a cheap and active cab, instead of th

dear. There were no waterproof hats, and my hat has

be bought. Quarrels about Uncommuted Tithes were endless. The corruptions of Parliament, before Reform, infamous. There were no banks to receive the savings of the poor. The Poor Laws were gradually sapping the vitals of the country; and, whatever miseries I suffered, I had no post to

d no springs, your clothes were rubbed all to pieces; and that even in the best society one

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neca; and that half the unhappiness in the world proceeds from little stoppages, from a duct

call upon him. He is going to sell his house in London, and to retire into the country. He is alarmed for his eldest daughter's health. His expenses are hourly increasing, and nothing but a timely retreat can save him from

body produce correspondent sensations in the mind, and a great scene of wretchedness is sketched out by a morsel of indigestible and mi

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views of the evils which war inflicts upon mankind. If three men were to have their legs and arms broken, and were to remain all night exposed to the inclemency of weather, the whole country would be in a state of the most dreadful agitation. Look at the wholesale death of a field of battle, ten acres covered with dead, and half dead, and dying; and the shrieks and agonies of many thousand human beings. There is more of misery inflicted upon mankind

n? Yet such has been the state of the world between 1714 and 1815, a period in which there was in England as many years of war as peace. Societies have been instituted for the preservation of peace, and for lessening t

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delighted by its easy yet careful narrative, its sane and ki

d thoughtful running commentary, has enabled his readers to form a tolerably accurate and complete conception of the brill

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hew Arnold. This estimate, so far as regards Mr, Arnold's poetry and his prose critic

An exceedingly effecti

ppreciative, interesting, skilful, and sometimes sparkling fashion, of the labo

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at Denmark Hill; and in later years often saw and corresponded with him. The result is a study of the writ

r is sure of his facts, and is able to illuminate them by means not only of a close personal acq

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t; it never errs on the side of exuberance; and it is expres

ving an account of what the poems contain, as well as a running commentary upon their character and value, be

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osed with infinite literary tact, with precision, and a certain smiling grace, and friendly and easy touch at once remark

udy is absolutely in the first rank, worthy to be put by t

but praise to utter of Mr. Dobson's co

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f Mr. Chesterton's work... his sanity and vi

most illuminating and stimulating pieces of work whi

lish Men of Letters' is one of the mos

tertaining, and even inspi

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admirably retold, with the quiet distinction of a style which is intent on its own business and too sure of producing its effect to care about forcing attention by

Ainger is the best available account of Crabbe and his works. The

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charm-perhaps the most charm

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e fitting commentary in a modern series dedicated to the history of English lett

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, facts and of discreet sympathy with a chara

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survey of the life, work, and teachi

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