Essays on Life 



imperiousness of expression and attitude about 

 Handel which he hardly attempts to conceal 

 in Madame Patey. It is a curious coincidence 

 that he should continue to be such an in- 

 comparable renderer of his own music. 

 Pope Julius II. was the late Mr. Darwin. 

 Rameses II. is a blind woman now, and 

 stands in Holborn, holding a tin mug. I 

 never could understand why I always found 

 myself humming " They oppressed them with 

 burthens" when I passed her, till one day I 

 was looking in Mr. Spooner's window in the 

 Strand, and saw a photograph of Rameses II. 

 Mary Queen of Scots wears surgical boots 

 and is subject to fits, near the Horse Shoe 

 in Tottenham Court Road. 



Michael Angelo is a commissionaire ; I saw 

 him on board the Glen Rosa, which used to 

 run every day from London to Clacton-on- 

 Sea and back. It gave me quite a turn when 

 I saw him coming down the stairs from the 

 upper deck, with his bronzed face, flattened 

 nose, and with the familiar bar upon his fore- 

 head. I never liked Michael Angelo, and 



never shall, but I am afraid of him, and was 



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