| William Hayley - 1803 - 450 pągines
...sublime. * * * * I once thought Swift's Letters the best that could be written, but I like Gray's better. His humour, or his wit, or whatever it is to be called,...and yet I think equally poignant with the Dean's." The Letters of Gray are admirable, but they appear to me not equal to those of Cowper, either in the... | |
| William Hayley - 1803 - 330 pągines
...fublime. * * * * I once thought Swift's letters the bifl that could be written, but I like Gray's better; His humour, or his wit, or whatever it is to be called, is never ill-naiured or offenfive, and yet I think equally poignant with the Dean's." The letters of Gray are... | |
| William Hayley - 1805 - 222 pągines
...sublime. * * * * I once thought Swift's tatiers the best that could be written, but I like Gray's better. His humour, or his wit, or whatever it is to be called, is never ill-natured or offensive, and yet, IdUimk equally poignant with the Dean's." The letters of Gray are admirable, but they appear to me... | |
| William Cowper - 1806 - 486 pągines
...sublime. * * * * I once thought Swift's letters the best that could be written, but I like Gray's better. His humour, or his wit, or whatever it is to be called,...and yet I think equally poignant with the Dean's." The letters of Gray are admirable, but they appear to me not equal to those of Cowper, either in the... | |
| William Cowper - 1809 - 472 pągines
...sublime. * * * * I once thought Swift's letters the-best that could be written, but I like Gray's better. His humour, or his wit, or whatever it is to be called,,...offensive, and yet I think equally poignant with the Bean's." • -->•->•*' '* l'*-. • -v^ .The letters of Gray are admirable, but they appear to... | |
| William Cowper, William Hayley - 1812 - 446 pągines
...sublime. ***** I once thought Swift's letters the best that could be written, but I like Gray's better. His humour, or his wit, or whatever it is to be called,...and yet I think equally poignant with the Dean's." 186 The letters of Gray are admirable, but they appear to me not equal to those of Cowper, either in... | |
| William Hayley - 1812 - 450 pągines
...sublime. ***** I once thought Swift's letters the best that could be written, but I like Gray's better. His humour, or his wit, or whatever it is to be called,...and yet I think equally poignant with the Dean's." , 186 The letters of Gray are admirable, but they appear to me not equal to those of Cowper, either... | |
| 1824 - 494 pągines
...thonght Swift s Letters the best that ronld be written; but I like Gray's better. His humour, or hit wit, or whatever it is to be called, is never ill-natured...observed in common conversation, that the man who conghs the oftenest, (I mean if he has not a cold) does it because he has nothing lo say. Even so it... | |
| 1824 - 624 pągines
...our esteem. I ouce thought Swift's Letters the best that could be written ; but I like Gray's better. His humour, or his wit, or whatever it is to be called,...following reflections on Mr. Newton's quitting Olney ; and ;hey are expressed with a swe«t simplicity : — " You have observed in common conversation, that... | |
| William Cowper - 1824 - 436 pągines
...our esteem. I once thought Swift's Letters the best that could be written ; but I like Gray's better. His humour, or his wit, or whatever it is to be called,...and yet, I think, equally poignant with the Dean's. I am yours affectionately, WC TO JOSEPH HILL, ESQ. *• ' • . MY DEAB, FRIEND, May 25, 1777. We differ... | |
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