 Horace, to whom, in his private character, he might, perhaps, not unaptly be compared. He was good-tempered, joyous, and sensual, with an elegant taste for the arts; a warm friend, an indulgent master, and a boon companion. We are told of him, that whenever...  History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles ... - Pagina 267door Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1858Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1836 - 568 pagina’s
...— that it is of far more importance to have the mind well disciplined than richly stored — strong rather than full. Walpole was, however, fond of perusing...at Houghton, gave his enemies no small handle for invective. He should have recollected that the display of wealth by a Prime Minister is always unpopular... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 494 pagina’s
...universally detested, he observed, that his acquisitions had been small, or that his capacity was narrow, and that the whole range of his mind was from obscenity to politics, and from politics to obscenity. But the opportunity of indulging his speculations on great characters was now at an end. He was banished... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 380 pagina’s
...universally detested, he observed, that his acquisitions had been small, or that his capacity was narrow, and that the whole range of his mind was from obscenity to politics, and from politics to obscenity. But the opportunity of indulging his speculations on great characters was now at an end. He was banished... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 378 pagina’s
...universally detested, he observed, that his acquisitions had been small, or that his capacity was narrow, and that the whole range of his mind was from obscenity to politics, and from politics to obscenity. But the opportunity of indulging his speculations on great characters was now at an end. He was banished... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 426 pagina’s
...universally detested, he observed, that his acquisitions had been small, or that his capacity was narrow, and that the whole range of his mind was from obscenity to politics, and from politics to obscenity. But the opportunity of indulging his speculations on great characters was now at an end. He was banished... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 416 pagina’s
...universally detested, he observed, that his acquisitions bad been small, or that his capacity was narrow, and that the whole range of his mind was from obscenity to politics, and from politics to obscenity. But the opportunity of indulging his speculations on great characters was now at an end. He was banished... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 318 pagina’s
...universally detested, he observed, that his acquisitions had been small, or that his capacity was narrow, and that the whole range of his mind was from obscenity to politics, and from politics to obscenity. But the opportunity of indulging his speculations on great characters was now at an end. He was banished... | |
 | 1879 - 1042 pagina’s
...Walpole was not much worse than his brother squires when he gave occasion to the saying of Savage : ' The whole range of his mind was from obscenity to politics, and from politics back to obscenity.' On the least provocation the mob became unmanageable ; and not Methodists only,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 446 pagina’s
...universally detested, he observed, that his acquisitions had been small, or that his capacity was narrow, and that the whole range of his mind was from obscenity to politics, and from politics to obscenity. But the opportunity of indulging his speculations on great characters was now at an end. He was banished... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 pagina’s
...universally detested, he observed, that his acquisitions had been small, or that his capacity was narrow, and that the whole range of his mind was from obscenity to politics, and from politics to obscenity. But the opportunity of indulging his speculations on great characters was now at an end. — He was... | |
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