Crossword-Solution: LANSDOWNES 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Smith called and went with me to Section A, but we were too late to hear John's paper--He told me that he and E--- start for Quebec to-night after a lecture on "Dust," and stay at the Lansdownes for the festivities there (we three have settled not to go), and return Sunday evening.

There was what is called a /conversazione/ at the house of one of those Whig noblemen who yet retain the graceful art of bringing agreeable people together, and collecting round them the true aristocracy, which combines letters and art and science with hereditary rank and political distinction,--that art which was the happy secret of the Lansdownes and Hollands of the last generation.

There was what is called a _conversazione_ at the house of one of those Whig noblemen who yet retain the graceful art of bringing agreeable people together, and collecting round them the true aristocracy, which combines letters and art and science with hereditary rank and political distinction,--that art which was the happy secret of the Lansdownes and Hollands of the last generation.

Towards the close of this period he acknowledged that London was "among improper places" the best for "writing books," after all the one use of living "for him;" its inhabitants "greatly the best" he "had ever walked with," and its aristocracy--the Marshalls, Stanleys, Hollands, Russells, Ashburtons, Lansdownes, who held by him through life--its "choicest specimens." Other friendships equally valued he made among the leading authors of the age.

She could be happy with Rogers or the Bowleses, who could allow for simplicity, and delight in it--a talent denied to the good Lansdownes.