 | 1842 - 276 pagina’s
...now at loo till two and three in the morning; who have always loved pleasure; haunted auctions .... How I have laughed when some of the magazines have called me the learned gentleman. Pray don't he like the magazines." This folly might he pardoned in a hoy. But a man of forty three as Walpolc... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 512 pagina’s
...at loo till two and three in the morning ; who have always loved pleasure ; haunted auctions. . . . How I have laughed when some of the Magazines have...learned gentleman. Pray don't be like the Magazines.' This folly might be pardoned in a boy. But a man of forty-three as Walpole then was, ought to be quite... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1842 - 580 pagina’s
...lies somewhere in Westphalia. Again adieu ! I don't like your rheumatism, and much less your plague. all the people I live with. How I have laughed, when...learned gentleman ! Pray don't be like the magazines. SIR, TO THE REV. HENRY ZOUCH. Strawberry Hill, February 4th, 1760. I DEFERRED answering your last,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 520 pagina’s
...now at loo till two and three in the morning ; who have always loved pleasure ; haunted auctions .... How I have laughed when some of the Magazines have...learned gentleman. Pray don't be like the Magazines." This folly might be pardoned in a boy. But a man between forty and fifty years old, as Walpole then... | |
 | 1844 - 671 pagina’s
...at loo until two or three in the morning ; who have always loved pleasure, haunted auctions. . . . How I have laughed when some of the magazines have...learned gentleman. Pray don't be like the magazines." This was written to his most intimate friend, who knew it was all a joke, but Mr. Macaulay takes it... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pagina’s
...now at loo till two and three in the morning; who have always loved pleasore, haunted auctions. . . longed to a man too proud and too sensitive to be liappv. This folly might be pardoned in a boy. But a man of forty-threw, as Walpole then was, ought to be quite... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - 1851 - 600 pagina’s
...anything that is called science. If it were not that I lay up a little provision in summer, like the aut, I should be as ignorant as all the people I live with....magazines have called me the learned gentleman.*" This humility we can now estimate at its full value. It became a habit with him to consider his works... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1851 - 420 pagina’s
...now at loo, till two and three in the morning, and who have always loved pleasure ; haunted auctions. How I have laughed, when some of the magazines have...learned gentleman ! Pray, don't be like the magazines." — Walpole's Letters. When James II. insisted very much on Lord changing his creed, he replied : "Please... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - 1852 - 596 pagina’s
...till two and three in the morning ; who have always loved pleasure ; haunted auctions — in shoit, who don't know so much astronomy as would carry me...magazines have called me the learned gentleman.*" This humility we can now estimate at its full value. It became a habit with him to consider his works... | |
 | 1852 - 780 pagina’s
...now at loo till two and three in the morning; who have always loved pleasure, haunted auctions. . . . He only maintains that conformity to the religion...ought to be an indispensable qualification for office This folly might be pardoned in a boy. But a man of forty-thre«, as Walpole then was, ought to be... | |
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How should I? I who have always lived in the big busy world ; who lie a-bed all the morning, calling it morning as long as you please; who sup in company; who have played at... 
