 I agree with you most absolutely in your opinion about Gray ; he is the worst company in the world. From a melancholy turn, from living reclusely, and from a little too much dignity, he never converses easily. All his words are measured and chosen, and...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 841819Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Curtis Platt, George Lillie Craik - London (England) - 1851 - 860 pages
...the fame of Gray as a poet; yet, while Gray was alive, Walpolc thus described his conversation : " I agree with you most absolutely in your opinion about...in the world. From a melancholy turn, from living rcclusely, and from a little too much dignity, he never converses easily ; all his words are measured... | |
 | Robert Southey - Anecdotes - 1851 - 768 pages
...They went a party to dine on a cold loaf (?), and passed the day. Lady Ailesbury protests he never opened his lips but once, and then only said, ' Yes, my lady, I believe so.'" —Ibid. vol. 2, p. 159. " GRAT has translated two noble incantations from the Lord knows who, a Danish... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1851 - 380 pages
...his manner. They went a party to dine on a cold loaf, and passed the day. Lady A. protests he never opened his lips but once, and then only said, ' Yes, my Lady, I believe so.' "J Dr. Beattie * See Mason's Memoirs, vol. iv. p. 210 : and Walpoliana, vol. ip 95 ; and Mathias's... | |
 | Robert Southey - Anecdotes - 1851 - 768 pages
...Erskine and Boswell. " I AGREE with you (George Montagu), most absolutely in your opinion about G ray. He is the worst company in the world. From a melancholy turn, from living reclusively, and from a little too much dignity, he never converses easily. All his words are measured... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 362 pages
...language, that it seemed unnatural, though it was only pure English." In a letter to G. Montagu he says, " I agree with you most absolutely in your opinion about...in the world. From a melancholy turn, from living reelusely, and from a little too much dignity, he never converses easily ; all his words are measured... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1853 - 510 pages
...fashion, on such a man of genius as GRAT : " I agree wilh you most ahsolutely in your opinion ahout GnAT ; he is the worst company in the world. From a melancholy...reclusely, and from a little too much dignity, he never converses easily ; all his words are measured and chosen, and formed into sentences : his writings... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 384 pages
...his manner. They went a party to dine on a cold loaf, and passed the day. Lady A. protests he never opened his lips but once, and then only said, ' Yes, my Lady, I believe so.' "J Dr. Beat* See Mason's Memoirs, vol. iv. p. 210 : and Walpoliana, vol. ip 95; and Mathias's Observations,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 536 pages
...manner.' They went as a party to dine on a cold loaf, and passed the day. Lady A. protests he never opened his lips but once, and then only said, " Yes, my lady, I believe so." — See Walpole's Letter to G Montagu, p. 199. f Lord Holland in a few words drew the character of... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1854 - 324 pages
...the 'fame of Gray as a poet ; yet, while Gray was alive, Walpole thus described his conversation : " I agree with you most absolutely in your opinion about...reclusely, and from a little too much dignity, he never converses easily ; all his words are measured and chosen, and formed into sentences : his writings... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1854 - 362 pages
...the fame of Gray as a poet; yet, while Gray was alive, Walpole thus described his conversation : " I agree with you most absolutely in your opinion about...reclusely, and from a little too much dignity, he never converses easily; all his words are measured and chosen, and formed into sentences : his writings are... | |
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