[1] The recital of these circumstances induced O'Keefe to introduce the
incident in the part of Nipperkin, in _Springs of Laurel_, or "Rival
Soldiers_".
[2] Oxberry appeared on the stage for the last time, this night, as
Corporal Foss.
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THE SELECTOR; AND LITERARY NOTICES OF _NEW WORKS_.
MEMOIRS OF SIR RALPH ESHER,
_By Leigh Hunt, Esq._
These volumes exhibit a lively picture of the gayest and most profligate
periods of the history of the English Court. The writer, Sir Ralph Esher,
is an adventurer in the Court of our Second Charles, where he is
introduced by luckily securing a feather that escapes from the hat of one
of the ladies of the Court on horseback. The work opens with some account
of the writer's family, of some antiquity, in the county of Surrey, with a
few delightful sketches of the great men of the period. Witness this
slight outline of
_Cowley._
"I rode one day on purpose to see Cooper's Hill, because Mr. Denham had
written a poem upon it; and hearing that Cowley was coming to see Mr.
Evelyn at Wootton, I went there and waited all the morning, till I saw him
arrive. He had a book in his hand, with his finger between the leaves, as
if he had been reading. He was a fleshy, heavy man, not looking in good
health, and had something of a stare in his eye. Before he entered the
gate, he stooped down to pinch the cheeks of some little children at play;
and afterwards, when I heard he was put in prison, I could not, for the
life of me, persuade myself that he deserved it.
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