 Nevertheless I interest myself a little in the history of it, and rather wish somebody may accept it that will retrieve the credit of the thing, if it be retrievable, or ever had any credit.  The Quarterly Review - Էջ 31խմբագրել է - 1854Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 էջ
...\vh» it is to be given to, pray let me know; for I interest myself a little in the history of it, and rather wish somebody may accept it that will retrieve...it; Eusden was a person of great hopes in his youth, tho' at last he turned out a drunken parson; Dryden was as disgraceful to the office, from his character,... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 618 էջ
...improve it ; how it stood when this criticism upon it was written, I cannot now recollect. — Mason. 304 wish somebody may accept it that will retrieve the...be retrievable, or ever had any credit. Rowe was, I tbjnk, the last man of character that had it ; Eusden was a person of great hopes in his youth, though... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 536 էջ
...trumpeter or pinmaker to the palace. Nevertheless I interest myself a little in the history of it, and rather wish somebody may accept it that will retrieve...thing, if it be retrievable, or ever had any credit. Howe was, I think, the last man of character that had it. As to Settle, whom you mention, he belonged... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 536 էջ
...trumpeter or pinmaker to the palace. Nevertheless I interest myself a little in the history of it, and rather wish somebody may accept it that will retrieve...thing, if it be retrievable, or ever had any credit. Howe was, I think, the last man of character that had it. As to Settle, whom you mention, he belonged... | |
 | Wiltshire Stanton Austin, John Ralph - 1853 - 658 էջ
...Lincolnshire, where he took to drinking and translating Tasso. Gray, in a letter to Mason, writes : " Eusden was a person of great hopes in his youth, though at last he turned out a drunken parson." However much " bemused with beer," his inebriety did not altogether obstruct his literary labours,... | |
 | 1853 - 774 էջ
...benefice, and took to drinking, and translating Tasso. He is mentioned in a letter of Gray's — " Eusden was a person of great hopes in his youth, though at last he turned out a drunken parson." The line of archipoetical succession brings us to one who has a double claim to immortality. The laurel... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1854 - 608 էջ
...everybody I saw smelt a rat about me. Nevertheless,! interest my sel fa little in the history of it, and rather wish somebody may accept it that will retrieve...be retrievable, or ever had any credit. Rowe was, I thinli, the last man of character that had it. Eusden was a person of great hopes in his youth, though... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1854 - 632 էջ
...everybody I saw smelt a rat about me. Nevertheless I interest myself a little in the history of it, and rather wish somebody may accept it that will retrieve...thing, if it be retrievable, or ever had any credit. Eowe was, I think, the last man of character that had it. Eusden was a person of great hopes in his... | |
 | 1854 - 544 էջ
...sergeant-trumpeter or pin-maker to the palace. Nevertheless I interest myself a little in the history of it ; and rather wish somebody may accept it that will retrieve...thing, if it be retrievable, or ever had any credit.' — Mitford, p. 112. ' I received my answer very soon, which was what you may ' easily imagine, but... | |
 | Dr. Doran (John) - 1854 - 564 էջ
...succeeded by one who wrote worse and drank more — Eusden, of whom Gray writes to Mason that he " was a person of great hopes in his youth, though at last ho turned out a drunken parson." Gibber loved the bottle quite as intensely as Eusden did, and he was... | |
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