 | William Gifford - 1797 - 178 pagina’s
...character ; which the town firft fmiled at for their quamtnefs, then tolerated for their abfurdity ; and now — that other papers equally wicked, and...ventured to imitate it, — will have to lament to the laft hour of Britifli liberty. town, by prefixing a fhort panegyric to every trifle which came before... | |
 | Thomas Skinner Surr - 1806 - 292 pagina’s
...constructed of most unintelligible words and sentences: they became, however, universally read, and were at first smiled at for their quaintness, then tolerated for their absurdity, and now must be for ever execrated as the foundalion.'-of an abuse of the liberty of the English press; ^which... | |
 | Thomas Skinner Surr - 1806 - 290 pagina’s
...constructed of most unintelligible words and sentences : they became, however, universally read, and were at first smiled at for their quaintness, then tolerated for their absurdity, and now must be for ever execrated as the foundation of an abuse of the liberty of the English press ; which... | |
 | William Gifford - 1811 - 220 pagina’s
...; but it seems to me to be an observation worthy of being treasured up in the mind of every man. " In this paper were given the earliest specimens " of those unqualified and audacious attacks on all 'f private character, which the town first smiled at " for their quaintness, then tolerated for their... | |
 | John Aikin, John Frost - 1838 - 752 pagina’s
...age," as Mr. Bell properly calls them, fell desperately in lovet with each other. From that period, • f him, but had Most pretty things to say : ere I could...hours, Such thoughts and such ; — or ere I could quaintneu, then tolerated fur their absurdity, anil nowthai other papers, equally wicked, and more... | |
 | John Aikin - 1838 - 796 pagina’s
...Mr. Bell properly calls them, fell desperately in lovet with each other. From that period, * In tilia lithe and glad, Or how can I gang brisk and braw,...hills and far awa > It's no the frosty winter win tjuaininess, then tolerated for their absurdity, and nowthai other papers, Equally wickefl, and more... | |
 | John Aikin - 1838 - 750 pagina’s
...age," as Mr. Bell properly calls them, fell desperately in lovet with each other. From thai period, * In this paper were given the earliest specimens of...audacious attacks on all private character; which the towa first smiled at for their qua i inness, then tolerated for their absurdity, and now— that other... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 616 pagina’s
...morning paper entitled The World. " In this paper," says Mr. Gifford, in his preface to the Baviad, " were given the earliest specimens of those unqualified...character, which the town first smiled at for their quaiutness, then tolerated for their absurdity; and — now that other papers equally wicked and more... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1842 - 632 pagina’s
...morning paper entitled The World. " In this paper," says Mr. Gifford, in his preface to the Baviad, " were given the earliest specimens of those unqualified...for their absurdity; and — now that other papers cqinlly wicked and more intelligible, have ventured to imitate it — will have to lament to the last... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1842 - 590 pagina’s
...morning paper entitled The World. " In this paper," says Mr. Gifford, in his preface to the Baviad, "were given the earliest specimens of those unqualified...character, which the town first smiled at for their quaintncss then tolerated fur their absurdity ; and —now that other papers equally wicked and more... | |
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In this paper," says Mr. Gifford, in his preface to the Baviad, " were given the earliest specimens of those unqualified and audacious attacks on all private character, which the town first smiled at for their quaintness, then tolerated for their absurdity;... 
