 | John Nichols - Authors, English - 1812 - 794 pages
...Mr. Henry Fielding with the I first, (Fielding.) " I cannot tell, my Lord," answered Harry, " except it be that my branch of the family were the first that knew how to spell." Mr. Fielding has afforded another instance how much it is to be lamented that genius and talents are... | |
 | 1837 - 860 pages
...Henry with the < first (Fielding). " I cannot tell, my lord,'' answered the great novelist, "except it be that my branch of the family were the first that knew how to spell." MILLKR AND HKRSCHEL. — About the year 1760, as Dr. Miller, the organist, was dining at Pontefract,... | |
 | Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) - 1846 - 362 pages
...spelling it Feild, and the player spelling it Field ? ' I cannot tell,' answered the player ; 'except it be that my branch of the family were the first that knew to spell.' " This anecdote serves to show how long the memory of Field survived ; but the same story... | |
 | Mark Antony Lower - Names, Personal - 1849 - 260 pages
...Henry with the i first (Fielding) . " I cannot tell, my lord," answered the great novelist, " except it be that my branch of the family were the first that knew how to spell." Sometimes the spelling of names is so changed that the various branches of one family lose sight of... | |
 | John Noake - 1851 - 430 pages
...first and Mr. Henry with the i first : " I cannot tell, my lord (answered the great novelist), except it be that my branch of the family were the first that knew how to spell." I saw here no other memorials of the dead which are worthy of note, but in the yard is a stone erected... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - Anecdotes - 1852 - 360 pages
...MR HENRY with the i first, Fielding. " I cannot tell, my Lord," answered the great Novelist, "except it be that my branch of the family were the first that knew how to spell." CLXV. CAPTAIN LENTHALL. July 12, 1837. C. Montagu told to me the following story of Captain Lentha'l,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1853 - 360 pages
...Fielding," and not " Feilding," like the head of the house ? " I cannot tell, my lord," said he, " except it be that my branch of the family were the first that knew how to spell." the man suffered ; the pressure of want, illness, remorse which he endured; and that the writer was neither... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1853 - 332 pages
...Fielding," and not " Feilding," like the head of the house ? "I cannot tell, my lord," said he, " except it be that my branch of the family were the first that knew how to spell." 1 In 1749, he was made Justice of the Peace for Westminster and Middlesex, an office then paid by fees,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1853 - 332 pages
...during these last years; and still more clearly, how he comported himself through all. said he, " except it be that my branch of the family were the first that knew how to spell." "Whilst I was preparing for my journey, and when I was almost fatigued to death with several long examinations,... | |
 | 1853 - 352 pages
...spelling it Feild, and the player spelling it Field ? ' I cannot tell,' answered the player; 'except it be that my branch of the family were the first that knew to spell.'" This anecdote serves to show how long the memory of Field survived; but the same story... | |
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Feilding," like the head of the house ? "I cannot tell, my lord," said he, " except it be that my branch of the family were the first that knew how to spell. 
