Pepys in the Round
‘HERE is but one Pepys, and F. L. Combs made him a very good prophet. Human nature being what it is, we tend to remember the less estimable side of Pepys, his doggishness, his nestfeathering, his spats with his wife and flirtations with Deb. But, as befitted a programme marking the 250th anniversary of the diarist’s death, F. L. Combs’s talk gave us the other side as well, the conscientious civil servant, the. family man, the patriot, the lover of the arts, the competent man of affairs. William Austin read the actual extracts from the diary in fine ringing tones, which I thought perhaps too robust for my own idea of Pepys, but which served as a necessary reminder of the fact that he was only 36 when he made that last entry, "And so I betake myself to that course which is almost as much as to see myself go into my grave; for which and all the discomforts that will accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me!" It is good to know that he lived on for another 34 years, presumably still: able to enjoy most of the pleasures recorded in the diary.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 726, 12 June 1953, Page 10
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201Pepys in the Round New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 726, 12 June 1953, Page 10
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