The Smith of Smiths: Being the Life, Wit, and Humor of Sydney Smith by Hesketh Pearson

The Smith of Smiths: Being the Life, Wit, and Humor of Sydney Smith

Hesketh Pearson

340 pages • first pub 1934 (view editions)

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Queen Victoria was amused! It may seem unlikely but the preface to this famous biography is given over to quotes from his contemporaries. Not all the quotes are favourable but the roll-call is dazzling: Byron, Macaulay, Walter Scott, George III an...

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