 | Horace Walpole - 1840 - 542 էջ
...rest of my contemporaries, from the absurd bombast of Dr. Johnson down to the silly Dr. Goldsmith; though the latter changeling has had bright gleams...that I have seen Pope, and lived with Gray. Adieu! Yours ever. PS Mr. Essex has shown me a charming drawing, from a charming round window at Lincoln.... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 536 էջ
...rest of my contemporaries, from the absurd bombast of Dr. Johnson down to the silly Dr. Goldsmith ; though the latter changeling has had bright gleams...that I have seen Pope, and lived with Gray. Adieu ! Yours ever. PS Mr. Essex has shown me a charming drawing, from a charming round window at Lincoln.... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1840 - 516 էջ
...rest of my contemporaries, from the absurd bombast of Dr. Johnson down to the silly Dr. Goldsmith, though the latter changeling has had bright gleams...that I have seen Pope, and lived with Gray. — Adieu ! " Such a letter seems not to have been written by a literary man — it is the babble of a thoughtless... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1840 - 528 էջ
...from the absurd bombast of Dr. Johnson down to the silly Dr. Goldsmith, though the latter channeling has had bright gleams of parts, and the former had...that I have seen Pope, and lived with Gray. — Adieu ! " Such a letter seems not to have been written by a literary man — it is the babble of a thoughtless... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1840 - 462 էջ
...rest of my contemporaries, from the absurd bombast of Dr. Johnson down to the silly Dr. Goldsmith, though the latter changeling has had bright gleams...parts, and the former had sense, till he changed it lor words, and sold it for a pension. Don't think me scornful. Recollect that 1 have seen Pope, and... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1842 - 590 էջ
...rest of my contemporaries, from the absurd bombast of Dr. Johnson down to the silly Dr. Goldsmith ; though the latter changeling has had bright gleams...that I have seen Pope, and lived with Gray. Adieu ! Yours ever. PS Mr. Essex has shown me a charming drawing, from a charming round window at Lincoln.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1843 - 588 էջ
...the rest of my cotemporaries, from the absurd bombast of Dr. Johnson down to the silly Dr. Goldsmith. Though the latter changeling has had bright gleams of parts, and the former hud sense till be changed it for words and sold it for a pension." — 27 April, 1773. The expression... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 572 էջ
...my contemporaries, from the absurd bombast of Doctor Johnson down ' to the silly Doctor Goldsmith ; though the latter changeling has had bright ' gleams...Recollect that I have seen Pope and ' lived with Gray." CM. Lett. v. 345-6. T '> 1771. claims to admiration as their own pencils had adorned the /Kt.Tx walls... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1854 - 362 էջ
...rest of my contemporaries, from the absurd bombast of Dr. Johnson, down to the silly Dr. Goldsmith ; though the latter changeling has had bright gleams...scornful. Recollect that I have seen Pope, and lived with Gray."t Walpole was too acute not to admire Fielding ; yet he evidently delights to lower the man,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1854 - 324 էջ
...rest of my contemporaries, from the absurd bombast of Dr. Johnson, down to the silly Dr. Goldsmith ; though the latter changeling has had bright gleams...scornful. Recollect that I have seen Pope, and lived with Gray."t Walpole was too acute not to admire Fielding ; yet he evidently delights to lower the man,... | |
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I have no thirst to know the rest of my contemporaries, from the absurd bombast of Dr. Johnson down to the silly Dr. Goldsmith, though the latter changeling has had bright gleams of parts, and the former had sense, till he changed it for words, and sold... 
