 Walpole was, however, fond of perusing and quoting Horace, to whom, in his private character, he might, perhaps, not unaptly be compared. He was good-tempered, joyous, and sensual, with an elegant taste for the arts ; a warm friend, an indulgent master,...  History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Aix-la-Chaoelle ... - Side 271av Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1853Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 494 sider
...universally detested, he observed, that his acquisitions had been small, or that his capacity was narrow, and that the whole range of his mind was from obscenity to politics, and from politics to obscenity. But the opportunity of indulging his speculations on great characters was now at an end. He was banished... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 380 sider
...universally detested, he observed, that his acquisitions had been small, or that his capacity was narrow, and that the whole range of his mind was from obscenity to politics, and from politics to obscenity. But the opportunity of indulging his speculations on great characters was now at an end. He was banished... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 378 sider
...universally detested, he observed, that his acquisitions had been small, or that his capacity was narrow, and that the whole range of his mind was from obscenity to politics, and from politics to obscenity. But the opportunity of indulging his speculations on great characters was now at an end. He was banished... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 426 sider
...universally detested, he observed, that his acquisitions had been small, or that his capacity was narrow, and that the whole range of his mind was from obscenity to politics, and from politics to obscenity. But the opportunity of indulging his speculations on great characters was now at an end. He was banished... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 416 sider
...universally detested, he observed, that his acquisitions bad been small, or that his capacity was narrow, and that the whole range of his mind was from obscenity to politics, and from politics to obscenity. But the opportunity of indulging his speculations on great characters was now at an end. He was banished... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 318 sider
...universally detested, he observed, that his acquisitions had been small, or that his capacity was narrow, and that the whole range of his mind was from obscenity to politics, and from politics to obscenity. But the opportunity of indulging his speculations on great characters was now at an end. He was banished... | |
 | 1879 - 1042 sider
...Walpole was not much worse than his brother squires when he gave occasion to the saying of Savage : ' The whole range of his mind was from obscenity to politics, and from politics back to obscenity.' On the least provocation the mob became unmanageable ; and not Methodists only,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 446 sider
...universally detested, he observed, that his acquisitions had been small, or that his capacity was narrow, and that the whole range of his mind was from obscenity to politics, and from politics to obscenity. But the opportunity of indulging his speculations on great characters was now at an end. He was banished... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 sider
...universally detested, he observed, that his acquisitions had been small, or that his capacity was narrow, and that the whole range of his mind was from obscenity to politics, and from politics to obscenity. But the opportunity of indulging his speculations on great characters was now at an end. — He was... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1836 - 572 sider
...general," says his son, " he loved neither reading nor writing." " How I envy you !" he exclaimed to Fox, whom he found one day, after his fall, reading in...at Houghton, gave his enemies no small handle for invective. He should have recollected that the display of wealth by a Prime Minister is always unpopular... | |
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