 | Sydney Smith - 1856 - Počet stránok 482
...were to teach bees to make honey. That he is an extraordinary writer of small poetry, and a diner-out of the highest lustre, I do most readily admit. After George Selwyn, and perhaps Tickell,f there has been no such man for this half century. * George Ellis, Editor of the Early English... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1858 - Počet stránok 638
...universally allowed to be a person of a very good understanding : call him a legislator, a. reasoner, and the conductor of the affairs of a great nation,...make honey. That he is an extraordinary writer of email poetry, and a diner-out of the highest order, I do most readily admit After George Selwyn, and... | |
 | 1858 - Počet stránok 884
...Pall Mall in the morning, these are his natural weapons ;" but " call him a legislator, a reasoner, and the conductor of the affairs of a great nation, and it seems to me aa absurd as if a butterfly were to teach bees to make honey." We will now turn from Lord Palmerston... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1859 - Počet stránok 1360
...universally regarded as a person of a very good understanding ; call him a legislator, a reasoner, and the conductor of the affairs of a great nation,...teach bees to make honey. That he is an extraordinary \vriter of small poetry, and a diner out of the highest lustre. I do most readily admit. After George... | |
 | 1860 - Počet stránok 360
...jocular he is strong ; when he is serious he is like Samson in a wig. Call him a legislator, a reasoner, and the conductor of the affairs of a great nation,...is an extraordinary writer of small poetry, and a diner-out of the highest lustre, I do most readily admit. After George Selwyn, and perhaps Tickell,... | |
 | 1860 - Počet stránok 360
...jocular he is strong ; when he is serious he is like Samson in a wig. Call him a legislator, a reasoner, and the conductor of the affairs of a great nation,...is an extraordinary writer of small poetry, and a diner-out of the highest lustre, I do most readily admit. After George Selwyn, and perhaps Tickell,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1864 - Počet stránok 378
...jocular, he is strong, when he is serious, he is like Samson in a wig. Call him a legislator, a reasoner, and the conductor of the affairs of a great nation,...is an extraordinary writer of small poetry, and a diner-out of the highest metre, I do most readily admit. After George Selwyn, and perhaps Tickell,... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1865 - Počet stránok 478
...be universally regarded as a person of a very good understanding; call him a legislator, a reasoner, and the conductor of the affairs of a great nation,...is an extraordinary writer of small poetry, and a diner-out of the highest lustre, I do most readily admit. After George Selwyn, and perhaps Tickell.f... | |
 | James Ewing Ritchie - 1866 - Počet stránok 936
...universally allowed to be a person of a very good understanding. Call him a legislator, a reasoner, and the conductor of the affairs of a great nation,...is an extraordinary writer of small poetry, and a diner-out of the highest order, I do most readily admit. After George Selwyn, and, perhaps, Tickell,... | |
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... understanding; call him a legislator, a reasoner, and the conductor of the affairs of a great nation, and it seems to me as absurd as if a butterfly were to teach bees to make honey. 
