 | Henry Fielding - 1821 - 846 sidor
...lowness. Had your brother, said I, been born in a stable, or been a runner at a spunging-house, one should have thought him a genius, and wished he had...education, and of being admitted into good company !" — After this, we are not surprised at its being alleged, that Fielding was destitute of invention... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1825 - 260 sidor
...lowness. Had yoar brother, said I, been born in a stable, or been a runner at a spunging-house, one should have thought him a genius, and wished he had...education, and of being admitted into good company \" After this we are not surprised at its being alleged that Fielding was destitute of invention and... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1832 - 438 sidor
...lowness. Had your brother, said I, beeiRwrn in a stable, or been a runner at a spunging house, one should have thought him a genius, and wished he had...education, and of being admitted into good company !" After this we are not surprised at its being alleged that Fielding was destitute of invention and... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 506 sidor
...lowness. Had your brother, said I, been born in a stable, or been a runner at a spunging-house, one should have thought him a genius, and wished he had...education, and of being admitted into good company!" — After this, we are not surprised at its being alleged, that Fielding was destitute of invention... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 492 sidor
...lowness. Had your brother, said I, been born in a stable, or been a runner at a spunging-house, one should have thought him a genius, and wished he had...education, and of being admitted into good company!" — After this, we are not surprised at its being alleged, that Fielding was destitute of invention... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 790 sidor
...continued lowness. Had your brother, said I, been born in a stable, or been a runner at a sponging house, we should have thought him a genius, and wished he...beyond my conception, that a man of family, and who had some learning, and who really is a writer, should descend so excessively low in all his pieces.... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 794 sidor
...lowness. Had your brother, said I, been born in • ciabla, or 126 127 been a runner it a sponging house, we should have thought him a genius, and wished he...being admitted into good company ; but it is beyond rny conception, that a man of lamily, and who had some learning, and who really is a writer, should... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1847 - 726 sidor
...lowness. Had your brother, said I, been born in a stable, or been a runner at a spunging-house, one should have thought him a genius, and wished he had...education, and of being admitted into good company ¡"—After this, we are not surprised at its being alleged that Fielding was destitute of invention... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1851 - 412 sidor
...lowness. Had your brother, said I, been born in a stable, or been a runner at a sponging-house, one should have thought him a genius, and wished he had...education, and of being admitted into good company." He goes on to say, that it is beyond his conception, that a man of family, having " some learning,... | |
 | 1852 - 782 sidor
...ranner at a sponging house, we should have thought him a genius, and wished he hud had the advantage uf a liberal education, and of being admitted into good company ; but it is beyona my conception, mat a man ot lamily, and who had •ome learning, and who really is a writer,... | |
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Poor Fielding ! I could not help telling his sister, that I was equally surprised at and concerned for his continued lowness. Had your brother, said I, been born in a stable, or been a runner at a sponging-house, we should have thought him a genius, and... 
