The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1852-03-27
THOMAS MOORE.

FROM WILLIS 'PENCILLINGs BY THE Way
called on Moore, with a letter of
introduction, and met him at the door
OF his lodgings. knew him instantly
from the pictures had seen OF him, but
was surprised at the diminutiveneSs of
his person. He is much below the middle
size, and with his white hat and long
chocolate frock- coat, was far from prepos-
sessingin his appearance. With this mate
rial disadvantage, however, his address
il getleman-lIke to very marked de.
gree, and should think no one could see
Moore without eonceivlng strong liking
for him. As was to meet him at din
ner, did not detain him. In the mo.
, ments conversation that passed, he in
quired very particularly after Washing
ton Irving, expressing for him the warm
est friendship, and asked what Cooper
was doing.
was al Lady Blessngton's at eight
Moore had not arrived, but the other
persons Of the party-a Russian count,
who spoke all the languages of Europe
as well as his own, Roman banker,
whose dynasty is more powerful than
the Pope'S, clever English nobeman,
and the observed of all observers Count
D'Orsay, stood in the window upon the
park, killing, as they might, the mel
ancholy twilight halt hour preceding
/ dinner.
MIR. Mooren cried the footman at the
bottom of the staircase. Mr.. Mooren
cried the iootman at the top. And wit
his glass at his eye, stumbling over an Of
toman, between his neer-sig htedness and
the darkness Of the room, enters the
Poet. Half a glance tells you that he is
at home on carpet. Sliding his little
feet up to lady Blessington, (of whom
he was lover when she was sixteen, and
to whom some OF the sweetest of his
songs We're written he made his COM
plimcnts with gayety and an ease,
combined with kind OF worshiIping
Difference, that was worthy Of prime
minister at the court of love. With the
gentlemen, all of whom he knew, he
had the frank, merry manner OF conf
dent favorite, and he was greeted like
one He went from one to the other,
strainng back his head TO look up at
them, (for, singularly enough, every
gentleman in the room was six feet hrsh
and upward and to every one he said
something which, from any one else,
would have seemed peculiarly felicitous,
but which fell from his lips as if his
breath was not more spontaneous.
Dinner was announced, the Russian
handed down "miladi,' and | found
myself seated opposite Moore, with a
blaze oflight on his Baceh us head, and
the mirrors with which the superb &C.
tagonal room is pannelied reflected every
motion. TO see him only at table, you
would think him not small man. His
principal length is in his body, his head
and shoulders are those Of a much larger
person. Consequently he sis taH, and
with the peculiar erectness of head and
neck, his diminutiveness disappears"
"Moore's head is distinctly before me
while | write, bnt shall find it difficult
to describe. His hair, which curled
once all over it in long tendrls. unlike
anybody else's in the world, and which
probably suggested his So5raquet of BAG.
chus,' is diminished now to few curls
sprlnkled with gray, and scattered in
single ring above his ears. His fore
head is wrinkled, with the exception of
a most prominent development of the
organ of gayety, which, singularlv
enough, shines with the lustre and smooth
polish o! pearl, and is surrounded by