[Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals by Samuel F. B. Morse]@TWC D-Link book
Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals

CHAPTER II
26/28

He looks considerably like the print you have of him.

He is a moderate Quaker, but not precise and stiff like the Quakers of Philadelphia.

He is a very pleasant and sociable man and withal very blunt in his address.

He is a man of excellent information and is considered among the greatest literary characters here.

There is one peculiarity, however, which he has in conversation, that of using the verb in the third person singular with the pronoun in the first person singular and plural, as instead of 'I show' or 'we show,' he says 'I shows,' 'we shows,' etc., upon which peculiarity the famous Mr.Sheridan made the following lines in ridicule of him:-- "If patients call, both one and all I bleeds 'em and I sweats 'em, And if they die, why what care I-- "I.


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books