They felt for Burke the adoring reverence which women offer, with too indiscriminate a trust, to men of commanding power.

In his case it was the moral loftiness of his character that inspired them, as much as the splendour of his ability.
Of Sheridan or of Fox they could not bear to hear; of Burke they could not hear enough.

Hannah More, and Mrs.Elizabeth Carter, the learned translator of Epictetus, and Fanny Burney, the author of _Evelina_ and _Cecilia_, were all proud of his notice, even while they glowed with anger at his sympathy with American rebels, his unkind words about the king, and his cruel persecution of poor Mr.Hastings.It was at Mrs.
Vesey's evening parties, given on the Tuesdays on which the Club dined at the "Turk's Head," that he often had long chats with Hannah More.
She had to forget what she called his political malefactions, before she could allow herself to admire his high spirits and good humour.
This was after the events of the Coalition, and her _Memoirs_, like the change in the mind of the Dissenters towards Burke, show what a fall that act of faction was believed to mark in his character.

When he was rejected for Bristol, she moralised on the catastrophe by the quaint reflection, that Providence has wisely contrived to render all its dispensations equal, by making those talents which set one man so much above another, of no esteem in the opinion of those who are without them.
Miss Burney has described her flutter of spirits when she first found herself in company with Burke (1782).

It was at Sir Joshua's house on the top of Richmond Hill, and she tells, with her usual effusion, how she was impressed by Burke's noble figure and commanding air, his penetrating and sonorous voice, his eloquent and copious language, the infinite variety and rapidity of his discourse.