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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... "
London - Pagina 146
geredigeerd door - 1842
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Private Correspondence of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: Now ..., Volume 1

Horace Walpole - 1820 - 668 pagina’s
...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...in the world. From a melancholy turn, from living VOL. i. o reclusely, and from a little too much dignity, he never converses easily; all his words are...
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Essays on the Formation and Publication of Opinions: And on Other Subjects

Samuel Bailey - 1821 - 300 pagina’s
...be placed on the representation of Horace Waipole, who thus speaks of him in one of his letters: " I agree with you most absolutely in your opinion about...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...
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The Literary Character, Volume 1

Isaac Disraeli - 1822 - 312 pagina’s
...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...chosen and formed into sentences: his writings are admirable—he himself is not agreeable." This volatile being in himself personified the quintessence...
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The English Portion of the Library of the Ven. Francis Wrangham

Francis Wrangham - 1826 - 672 pagina’s
...different) of Gray's fine Epitaph, " Here rests, &.c." Gray (said Walpole, in a Letter to Geo. Montagu) is the worst company in the world. From a melancholy...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,'...
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The English portion of the library of ... Francis Wrangham [a catalogue ...

Francis Wrangham - 1826 - 906 pagina’s
...different) of Gray's fine Epitaph, " Here rests, 8oc." Gray (saiJ Walpole, in a Letter to Geo. Montagu) is the worst company in the world. From a melancholy...little too much dignity, he never converses easily." lie, who modestly in one of his Letters pronounces his Works'half a dozen ballads in thirty pages,'...
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Correspondence ... with George Montagu ... hon. H.S. Conway [and ..., Volume 1

Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1837 - 462 pagina’s
...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...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...
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The Correspondence of Horace Walpole, with George Montagu, Esq., [and Others ...

Horace Walpole - 1837 - 462 pagina’s
...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...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...
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Essays on the Formation and Publication of Opinions: And on Other Subjects

Samuel Bailey - 1837 - 350 pagina’s
...be placed on the representation of Horace Walpole, who thus .speaks of him in one of his letters : " I agree with you most absolutely in your opinion about...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...
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The letters of Horace Walpole [ed. by J. Wright].

Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 522 pagina’s
...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...writings are admirable; he himself is not agreeable. 1 There are still two months to London; if you could disveryour own mind for any three or four days...
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Miscellanies of literature, by the author of 'Curiosities of literature'.

Isaac Disraeli - 1840 - 528 pagina’s
...lets us into this secret when writing to another man of fashion, on euch a man of genius as GRAY : " I agree with you most absolutely in your opinion about...chosen, and formed into sentences : his writings are admirable—he himself is not agreeable." This volatile being in himself personified the quintessence...
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