Daily Dose

(above, a caricature by Edward Landseer, of Sydney Smith.)
From The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Vol. 2

A VERY PLEASANT EVENING

"That we had a very pleasant evening I need scarcely say, but to Boswell Sydney Smith would out-Boswell Boswell."

From A Letter to Mrs. R, Butler, North Audley Street, Dec. 3, 1843