 | Sir Charles Hanbury Williams - 1822 - 296 pàgines
...lively pow'rs dispense ; Mirth, humour, wit, good-nature, sense, Make up thy constant train ; We'll banish politics and care, And scarce remember there's...unmeditated. He died by the ignorance of a quack, who hlooded and purged him to death in a few days — W. Winnington was first made a Lord of the Admiralty,... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1841 - 810 pàgines
...profitable a commodity to be prophaned and turned into ridicule. He had infinitely more wit than any man I ever knew, and it was as ready and quick as it was constant and unmeditated. His style was a little brutal, his courage not at all so ; his good humour inexhaustible ; it was impossible... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1842 - 592 pàgines
...profitable a commodity to be profaned and turned into ridicule. He had infinitely more wit than any man I ever knew, and it was as ready and quick as it was constant and unmeditated. His style was a little brutal, his courage not at all so ; his good-humour inexhaustible ; it was impossible... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1842 - 594 pàgines
...profitable a commodity to be profaned and turned into ridicule. He had infmitely more wit than any man I ever knew, and it was as ready and quick as it was constant and unmcditated. His style was a little brutal, his courage not at all so ; his good-humour inexhaustible... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 440 pàgines
...him, " He had a jolly way of laughing at his own want of principles ; he had more wit than any man I ever knew ; and it was as ready and quick as it was constant and unpremeditated." He is known to have been the favoured lover of the celebrated Ethelreda Harrison,... | |
 | John Hervey Baron Hervey - 1848 - 608 pàgines
...want of principle revolted the graver sort of politicians. He had infinitely more wit than any man I ever knew, and it was as ready and quick as it was constant and unpremeditated. His style was a little brutal; his courage not at all so ; his good humour was inexhaustible;... | |
 | Frederick Lawrence - 1855 - 430 pàgines
...profitable a commodity to be profaned and turned into ridicule. He had infinitely more wit than any man I ever knew, and it was as ready and quick as it was constant and unmeditated. His style was a little brutal ; his courage not at all so ; his good humour inexhaustible : it was... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 250 pàgines
...profitable a commodity to be profaned and turned into ridicule. He had infinitely more wit than any man I ever knew, and it was as ready and quick as it was constant and unmeditated. His style was a little brutal : his courage not at all so ; his good humour inexhaustible ; it was... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1901 - 458 pàgines
...him, " He had a jolly way of laughing at his own want of principles ; he had more wit than any man I ever knew ; and it was as ready and quick as it was constant and unpremeditated." He is known to have been the favoured lover of the celebrated Ethelreda Harrison,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1906 - 618 pàgines
...profitable a commodity to be prophaned and turned into ridicule. He had infinitely more wit than any man I ever knew, and it was as ready and quick as it was constant and unmeditated. His style was a little brutal, his courage not at all so ; his good-humour inexhaustible ; it was impossible... | |
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... him, in a manner to offend the steady old Whigs ; and his jolly way of laughing at his own want of principles had revolted all the graver sort, who thought deficiency of honesty too sacred and profitable a commodity to be profaned and turned into... 
