In politics, a bitter and unscrupulous partisan ; profuse and ostentatious in expense ; agitated by the hopes and fears of a gambler; perpetually sacrificing the perfection of his compositions, and the durability of his fame, to his eagerness for money... The Scottish Review - Page 2361894Full view - About this book
| George Otto Trevelyan - 1876 - 652 pages
...different kind, from the faults of a man of the world. In politics, a bitter and unscrupulous partisan ; profuse and ostentatious in expense ; agitated by...order to satisfy wants which were not. like those of Dryden, caused by circumstances beyond his control, but which were produced by his extravagant waste... | |
| George Otto Trevelyan - 1876 - 422 pages
...fanlts of a man of the world. In politics, a bitter and unscrnpnlons partisan ; profnse and ostentations in expense; agitated by the hopes and fears of a gambler;...sacrificing the perfection of his compositions, and the dnrability of his fame, to his eagerness for money ; writing with the slovenly haste of Dryden, in... | |
| Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1878 - 570 pages
...different kind, from the faults of a man of the world. In politics a bitter and unscrupulous partisan ; U rG 3?5 y# g NUՈ c N lmU U m Z+ 1 < y'<r 徲 ,`& Iњ ... 'ψ z z4 # 3] % f 6|s `' @ m Ԉ[ $$ J" & = & ăbC @P Dryden, caused by circumstances beyond his control, but which were produced by his extravagant waste... | |
| Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer.) - Great Britain - 1879 - 236 pages
...different kind, from the faults of a man of the world. In politics a bitter and unscrupulous partisan ; profuse and ostentatious in expense ; agitated by...order to satisfy wants which were not, like those of Dryden, caused by circumstances beyond his control, but which were produced by his extravagant waste... | |
| Macvey Napier - College librarians - 1879 - 586 pages
...politics a bitter and unscrupulous partisan — greedy of gain — profuse 1 " Life of Sir Welter Scott." and ostentatious in expense — agitated by the hopes...order to satisfy wants which were not, like those of Dryden, caused by circumstances beyond his control, but which were produced by his own extravagant... | |
| James Hogg, Florence Marryat - English literature - 1881 - 770 pages
...strips poor Sir Walter of a great deal of gloss. ' In politics a bitter and unscrupulous partisan ; profuse and ostentatious in expense ; agitated by...order to satisfy wants which were not, like those of Dryden, caused by circumstances beyond his control, but which were produced by his extravagant waste... | |
| sir George Otto Trevelyan (2nd bart.) - 1881 - 732 pages
...different kind, from the faults of a man of the world. In politics, a bitter and unscrupulous partisan ; profuse and ostentatious in expense ; agitated by...and fears of a gambler ; perpetually sacrificing the per1 "I began Lessing's Laocoon, and read forty or fifty pnges : sometimes dissenting, but always admiring... | |
| Henry James Nicoll - English literature - 1889 - 636 pages
...different kind — from the faults of a man of the world. In politics a bitter and unscrupulous partisan ; profuse and ostentatious in expense ; agitated by...and the durability of his fame to his eagerness for making money ; writing with the slovenly haste of Dryden, in order to satisfy wants which were not,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 190 pages
...different kind, from the faults of a man of the world. In politics, a bitter and unscrupulous partisan; profuse and ostentatious in expense; agitated by the...order to satisfy wants which were not, like those of Dryden, caused by circumstances beyond his control, but which were produced by his extravagant waste... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 270 pages
...different kind, from the faults of a man of the world. In politics, a bitter and unscrupulous partisan ; profuse and ostentatious in expense ; agitated by...order to satisfy wants which were not, like those of Dryden, caused by circumstances beyond his control, but which were produced by his extravagant waste... | |
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