 I agree with you most absolutely in your opinion about Gray ; he is the worst company in the world. From a melancholy turn, from living reclusely, and from a little too much dignity, he never converses easily ; all his words are measured and chosen, and...  Miscellanies of Literature - Sida 402efter Isaac Disraeli - 1840 - 484 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1819 - 654 sidor
...with you most absolutely in your opinion about Gray ; he is the worst company in the world. From a melancholy turn, from living reclusely, and from a little too much dignity, he never converseseasily. .Ml his words are measured and chosen, and- formed inn sentences. His writings are... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - 1821 - 300 sidor
...with you most absolutely in your opinion about Gray ; he is the worst company in the world. From a melancholy turn, from living reclusely, and from a...converses easily. All his words are measured and chosen. His writings are admirable. He himself is not agreeable." In this representation, some ill-nature and... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1822 - 312 sidor
...with you most absolutely in your opinion about GRAY ; he is the worst company in the world. From a melancholy turn, from living reclusely, and from a...not endure that equality of intellect which genius exacted. He rejected Chatterton, and quarrelled with every literary man and every artist he invited... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1826 - 672 sidor
...rests, &c." Gray (said Walpole, in a Letter to Geo. Montagu) is the worst company in the •orld. From a melancholy turn, from living reclusely, and from a...little too much dignity, he never converses easily." He, who modestly in one of his Letters pronounces his Works ' half a dozen ballads in thirty pages,'... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1826 - 906 sidor
...rests, &.c." Gray (said TValpole, in a Letter to Geo. Montagu) is the worst company in the wuild. From a melancholy turn, from living reclusely, and from a...little too much dignity, he never converses easily." He, who modestly in one of his Letters pronounces his Works ' half a dozen ballads in thirty pages,'... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1837 - 462 sidor
...with you most absolutely in your opinion about Gray; ,he is the worst company in the world. From a melancholy -turn, from living reclusely, and from...writings are admirable ; he himself is not agreeable. but I positively will ask you neither one nor t'other any more. I have raised seven-and-twenty bantams... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1837 - 462 sidor
...with you most absolutely in your opinion about Gray ; .he is the worst company in the world. From a melancholy turn, from living reclusely, and from a...writings are admirable ; he himself is not agreeable. There are still two months to London; if you could discover your own mind for any three or four days... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 522 sidor
...with you most absolutely in your opinion about Gray ; he is the worst company in the world. From a melancholy turn, from living reclusely, and from a...sentences ; his writings are admirable ; he himself is not agreeable.1 There are still two months to London ; if you could dis1 Dr. Beattie says, in a letter... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1840 - 618 sidor
...with you most absolutely in your opinion about i Gray ; he is the worst company in the world. From a melancholy turn, from living reclusely, and from a...sentences ; his writings are admirable ; he himself is not agreeable.1 There are still two months to London ; if you could dis1 Dr. Beattie says, in a letter... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1842 - 596 sidor
...with you most absolutely in your opinion about Gray ; he is the \Vorst company in the world. From a melancholy turn, from living reclusely, and from a...writings are admirable; he himself is not agreeable." There are still two months to London ; if you could discover your own mind for any three or four days... | |
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