 | 1819 - 654 pages
...A. protests he^never opened his lips but once, and then only said, " Yes, my Lady, I believe so. " ' I agree with you most absolutely in your opinion about...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... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1822 - 312 pages
...lets us into this secret when writing to another man of fashion, on such a man of genius as GRAY : " I agree with you most absolutely in your opinion about...converses easily; all his words are measured and chosen and formed into sentences : his writings are admirable— he himself is not agreeable." This volatile... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1826 - 906 pages
...Here 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...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 - Library catalogs - 1826 - 672 pages
...Here 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...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 pages
...body that proposes marrying and travelling, I think they cannot do it in a more commodious method. I agree with you most absolutely in your opinion about...converses easily ; all his words are measured and chosen, and formed into sentences ; his writings are admirable ; he himself is not agreeable. but I positively... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1837 - 462 pages
...body that proposes marrying and travelling, I think they cannot do it •in a more commodious method. I agree with you most absolutely in your opinion about...converses easily ; all his words are measured and chosen, and formed into sentences ; his writings are admirable ; he himself is not agreeable. There are still... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1839 - 418 pages
...lets us into this secret when writing to another man of fashion, on such a man of genius as GRAY : " I agree with you most absolutely in your opinion about...converses easily; all his words are measured and chosen and formed into sentences : his writings are admirable — he himself is not agreeable." This volatile... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1840 - 462 pages
...lets us into this secret when writing to another man of fashion, on such a man of genius as GRAY : " I agree with you most absolutely in your opinion about...converses easily; all his words are measured and chosen, and formed into sentences : his writings are admirable — he himself is not agreeable." This volatile... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 522 pages
...anybody that proposes marrying and travelling, I think they cannot do it in a more commodious method. I agree with you most absolutely in your opinion about...converses easily; all his words are measured and chosen, and formed into sentences ; his writings are admirable ; he himself is not agreeable.1 There are still... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1840 - 618 pages
...cannot do it in a more commodious method. f I agree with you most absolutely in your opinion about i Gray ; he is the worst company in the world. From...converses easily; all his words are measured and chosen, and formed into sentences ; his writings are admirable ; he himself is not agreeable.1 There are still... | |
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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... 
