 | Horace Walpole - 1806 - 540 Seiten
...wandering from the subject. Ostentatious in* his person, houses, and furniture, he wanted in 1* his expence the taste he never wanted in his ' '• • conversation....-a^ man of the greatest wit^ " - •. when his parts are^more suited to society than \" .. to composition. jThe vers^ remains, the b»ns mots and sallies... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1813 - 562 Seiten
...of him that he was " ostentatious in his person, houses, and furniture, and wanted in his expences the taste he never wanted in his conversation. Pope...society than to composition. The verse remains, the bon.inots and sallies are forgotten." He was handsome, and of a striking figure, but in his latter... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1813 - 560 Seiten
...of him that he was " ostentatious in his person, houses, and furniture, and wanted in his expences the taste he never wanted in his conversation. Pope...society than to composition. The verse remains, the bon.mots and sallies are forgotten." He was handsome, and of a striking figure, but in his latter days... | |
 | Sir Charles Hanbury Williams - 1822 - 464 Seiten
...expense the taste he never wanted in his conversation. Pope and Churchill treated him with more severity than he deserved, a fate that may attend a man of...remains ; the bon mots and sallies are forgotten. — W. Bub's Diary is curious, indeed, not so much from the secrets it blabs, which are rather characteristic... | |
 | Charles Hanbury-Williams - 1822 - 314 Seiten
...wanted in his conversation. Pope and Churchill treated him with more severity than he deserved, a fete that may attend a man of the greatest wit, when his...remains ; the bon mots and sallies are forgotten.— W. Bub's Diary is curious, indeed, not so much from the secrets it blabs, which are rather characteristic... | |
 | Charles Hanbury-Williams - 1822 - 292 Seiten
...wanted in his conversation. Pope and Churchill treated him with more severity than he deserved, a fete that may attend a man of the greatest wit, when his...society than to composition. The verse remains ; the ton mots and sallies are forgotten. — \V. Bub's Diary is curious, indeed, not so much from the secrets... | |
 | James Thomson - 1847 - 504 Seiten
...merit in its secret celt, And Heav'n, nay, even man, repaid him well." And Horace Walpole remarks, " Pope and Churchill treated him more severely than...remains, the bon mots and sallies are forgotten." ' * The motion of the primary planets, in our system, around the sun, to which the poet alludes, is... | |
 | Hugh James Rose - 1848 - 530 Seiten
...of him, that he was " ostentatious in his person, houses, and furniture, and wanted in his expenses the taste he never wanted in his conversation. Pope...fate that may attend a man of the greatest wit, when hi» parts arc more suited to society than to composition. The verse remains, the ion-mots and sallies... | |
 | Hugh James Rose - 1853 - 528 Seiten
...houses, and furniture, and wanted in his expenses the taste he never wanted in his conversation. Горе and Churchill treated him more severely than he deserved...society than to composition. The verse remains, the ion-mota and sallies are forgotten." He was handsome, and of a striking figure, but in his latter days... | |
 | Hugh James Rose - 1857 - 668 Seiten
...of him, that he was " ostentatious in his person, houses, and furniture, and wanted in his expenses the taste he never wanted in his conversation. Pope...society than to composition. The verse remains, the Ion-mots and sallies are forgotten." He was handsome, and of a striking figure, but in his latter days... | |
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Pulteney's were copious and wandering from the subject. Ostentatious in his person, houses, and furniture, he wanted in his expense the taste he never wanted in his conversation. Pope and Churchill treated him... 
