"Hanglina's pictur was kindly presented to me by Countess B., her mamma, though of coarse I paid for it. It was engraved for the Book of Bewty this year : and there is a proof of the etching :─
Bijdrage aan het satirische tijdschrift Punch, door
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1868).
With such a perfusion of ringlits I should scarcely have known her─but the ands, feat, and i's, is very like. She was painted in a gitar supposed to be singing one of my little melladies ; and her brother Southdown, who is one of the New England poits, wrote the follering stanzys about her :
LINES UPON MY SISTER'S POTRAIT
BY THE LORD SOUTHDOWN
. . . . . . . . . ."
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