 | John Timbs - 1866 - Počet stránok 336
...jocular, he is strong ; when be 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 dinerout of the highest metre, I do most readily admit. After George 'Selwyn, and perhaps Tickell,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1866 - Počet stránok 340
...in a wig. Call him a legislator, a reasoner, and the conductor of the affairs of a great nation, aud it seems to me as absurd as if a butterfly were to...is an extraordinary writer of small poetry, and a dinerout of the highest metre, I do most readily admit. After George Selwyn, and perhaps Tickell, there... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1867 - Počet stránok 832
...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,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1867 - Počet stránok 804
...of a very g"iOd understanding : call him a legislator, a reasoner, and the conductor of the aflairs of a great nation, and it seems to me as absurd as...is an extraordinary writer of small poetry, and a diner-out of the highest order, I do most readily admit. After George Sclwyn, and perhaps Tickell,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1867 - Počet stránok 824
...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, and it seems to me as absurd as if a butterfly •Vf ere to teach bees to make honey. That he is an extraordinary writer of small poetry, and a diner-out... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1867 - Počet stránok 866
...universally allowed to be a person of a very good understanding : call him a legislator, a reasoncr, and the conductor of the affairs of a great nation, and it seems to mo as absurd as if a butterfly were to teach bees to make honey. That he is an extraordinary writer... | |
 | Books - 1868 - Počet stránok 220
...serious, he is like Samson in a wig. Call him a legislator, a reasoner, and the conductor of the 51 affairs of a great nation, and it seems to me as absurd...butterfly were to teach bees to make honey. That he was an extraordinary writer of small poetry, and a diner-out of the highest lustre, I do most readily... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1873 - Počet stránok 452
...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,...writer of small poetry, and a diner out of the highest order, I do most readily admit. After George Selwyn, and perhaps Tickell, there has been no such man... | |
 | John Timbs - 1874 - 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 metre, I do most readily admit. After George Selwyn, and perhaps Tickell,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1875 - Počet stránok 614
...is serious, he is like Samson in a wig. Call him a legislator, a reasoncr, and the conductor of die affairs of a great nation, and it seems to me as absurd...is an extraordinary writer of small poetry, and a diner-out of the highest metre, I do most readily admit. After George Sehvyn, 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. 
