 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1844 - Страниц: 540
...had conceived a favourable opinion of her capacity. But this new book is wretched ; a high-varnished preface to a heap of rubbish, in a very vulgar style,...disciples, seem to have taken his brutal contradictions for bons-mots. Some of his own works show that he had, at times, strong, excellent sense ; and that he... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1844 - Страниц: 590
...heap of rubbish, in a very vulgar style, and too void of method even for such a farrago. Her penegyric is loud in praise of her hero; and almost every fact...disciples, seem to have taken his brutal contradictions for bons-mots. Some of his own works show that he had, at times, strong, excellent sense; and that he had... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1859 - Страниц: 722
...Manners. Once more, thanks for all ! Two days ago appeared Madame Piozzi's 'Anecdotes of Dr. Johnson.' I am lamentably disappointed — in her, I mean ;...be proud, and may conceal it ; if he is arrogant, ho declares he is proud. She, and all Johnson's disciples, seem to have taken his brutal contradictions... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1861 - Страниц: 706
...Manners. Once more, thanks for all ! Two days ago appeared Madame Piozzi's 'Aneedotes of Dr. Johnson.' I am lamentably disappointed — in her, I mean; not...disciples, seem to have taken his brutal contradictions for baus-mots. Some of his own works show that he had, at times, strong, excellent sense ; and that he... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1861 - Страниц: 696
...had conceived a favourable opinion of her capacity. But this new book is wretched ; a high-varnished preface to a heap of rubbish, in a very vulgar style,...disciples, seem to have taken his brutal contradictions for Ions-mots. Some of his own works show that he had, at times, strong, excellent sense ; and that he... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1866 - Страниц: 698
...Manners. Once more, thanks for all ! Two days ago appeared Madame Piozzi's 'Anecdotes of Dr. Johnson.' I am lamentably disappointed — in her, I mean; not...disciples, seem to have taken his brutal contradictions for bons-mofs. Some of his own works show that he had, at times, strong, excellent sense ; and that he... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1866 - Страниц: 698
...had conceived a favourable opinion of her capacity. But this new book is wretched ; a high-varnished preface to a heap of rubbish, in a very vulgar style,...disciples, seem to have taken his brutal contradictions for bons-mots. Some of his own works show that he had, at times, strong, excellent sense ; and that he... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - Страниц: 664
...had conceived a favorable opinion of her capacity. But this new book is wretched ; a high-varnished preface to a heap of rubbish, in a very vulgar style,...disciples, seem to have taken his brutal contradictions for bon-mots. Some of his own works show that he had, at times, strong, excellent sense, and that he had... | |
 | Leonard Benton Seeley - 1891 - Страниц: 394
...had conceived a favourable opinion of her capacity. But this new book is wretched ; a highvarnished preface to a heap of rubbish, in a very vulgar style,...disciples, seem to have taken his brutal contradictions for bonsmots. Some of his own works show that he had, at times, strong, excellent sense ; and that he had... | |
 | Leonard Benton Seeley - 1891 - Страниц: 398
...'Anecdotes,' 293. The Book Successful. 283 capacity. But this new book is wretched ; a highvarnished preface to a heap of rubbish, in a very vulgar style,...disciples, seem to have taken his brutal contradictions for bonsmots. Some of his own works show that he had, at times, strong, excellent sense; and that he had... | |
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I am lamentably disappointed — in her, I mean; not in him. I had conceived a favourable opinion of her capacity. But this new book is wretched ; a high- varnished preface to a heap of rubbish, in a very vulgar style, and too void of method even for... 
