 | 1880 - 566 pagina’s
...when I passed through it. He was so good-natured and so indolent that I lost more than I got by him, for he made me as- idle as himself. He was such a...as if he had trusted to his genius as a cloak for everything that could disgust you in his person : and indeed in his writings he has almost made amends... | |
 | Goldwin Smith - 1880 - 156 pagina’s
...when I passed through it. He was so goodnatured and so indolent that I lost more than I got by him, for he made me as idle as himself. He was such a sloven,...as if he had trusted to his genius as a cloak for everything that could disgust you in his person ; and indeed in his writings he has almost made amends... | |
 | Goldwin Smith - 1880 - 156 pagina’s
...passed through it. He was so goodnatured and so indolent that I lost more than I got by him, for ho made me as idle as himself. He was such a sloven, as if he had trusted to his genius as a cloak for everything that could disgust you in his person; and indeed in his writings he has almost made amends... | |
 | Goldwin Smith - 1880 - 156 pagina’s
...idle as himself. He was such a sloven, as if he had trusted to his genius as a cloak for everything that could disgust you in his person ; and indeed in his writings he has almost made amends for all. ... I remember seeing the Duke of Richmond set fire to his greasy locks, and box his ears to put it... | |
 | William Cowper - 1884 - 356 pagina’s
...I passed through it. He was so good-natured, and so indolent, that I lost more than I got by him ; for he made me as idle as himself. He was such a sloven,...as if he had trusted to his genius as a cloak for everything that could disgust you in his person ; and indeed in his writings he has almost made amends... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1892 - 746 pagina’s
...He was so good-natured," continues the poet, " and so indolent, that I lost more than I got by him, for he made me as idle as himself. He was such a sloven,...as if he had trusted to his genius as a cloak for everything that could disgust you in his person ; and indeed in his writings he has almost made amends... | |
 | John Morley - 1894 - 612 pagina’s
...when I passed through it. He was so goodnatured and so indolent that I lost more than I got by himv for he made me as idle as himself. He was such a sloven,...as if he had trusted to his genius as a cloak for everything that could disgust you in his person ; and indeed in his writings he has almost made amends... | |
 | Mark Pattison - 1895 - 570 pagina’s
...when I passed through it. He was so good-natured and so indolent that I lost more than I got by him, for he made me as idle as himself. He was such a sloven,...as if he had trusted to his genius as a cloak for everything that could disgust you in his person ; and indeed in his writings he has almost made amends... | |
 | Arthur Christopher Benson - 1896 - 340 pagina’s
...Cowper says : " He was such a sloven, as if he had trusted to his genius as a cloak for everything that could disgust you in his person ; and indeed...his writings, he has almost made amends for all." And again to Mr. Rose, in 1788, he writes : " I shall have great pleasure in taking now and then a... | |
 | Arthur Christopher Benson - 1896 - 356 pagina’s
...of the goodness of heart. TF" He was noted, too, for extreme slovenliness in attire. Cowper says : " He was such a sloven, as if he had trusted to his genius as a cloak for everything that could disgust you in his person ; and indeed in his writings, he has almost made amends... | |
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I love him, too, with a love of partiality, because he was usher of the fifth form at -Westminster, when I passed through it He was so good-natured, and so indolent, that I lost more than I got by him ; for he made me as idle as himself. He was such a... 
