| Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pàgines
...child is capable of the same thing, without any study ot all. Is not that naiveti and good humour, which his admirers celebrate in him, owing to this,...childish nation, the French, have given him vogue '* A few paragraphs of particular criticism arc here omitted. and fashion, and we, as usual, have learned... | |
| William Magee - 1812 - 564 pàgines
...child is capable of the same thing, without any study at all. Is not that naivete and good humour, which his admirers celebrate in him, owing to this,...been taught to read and write? That childish nation, tha French, have given him vogue and fashion, and we, as usual, have learned from them to admire hirn... | |
| William Magee - 1813 - 556 pàgines
...child is capable of the same thing, without any study at all. Is not that naif tie and good humour, which his admirers celebrate in him, owing to this,...' That childish nation, the French, have given him vogu« and fashion, and we, as usual, have learned from them to admire him at second hand." (Mason's... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1820 - 492 pàgines
...child is capable of the same thing, without any study at all. Is not that naivete and good humour, which his admirers celebrate in him, owing to this,...as usual, have learned from them to admire him at secondhand.* * On a similar subject Mr. Gray expresses himself thus in a letter to Mr. Wai pole, dated... | |
| Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1820 - 548 pàgines
...child is capable of the same thing, without any study at all. Is not that naivete and good humour, which his admirers celebrate in him, owing to this,...the French, have given him vogue and fashion, and r e, as usual, have learned him at second hand.* from them to admire LETTER VIII. MR. GRAY TO MR. HOW.f... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1825 - 728 pàgines
...child is capable of the same thing, without any study at all. Is not that naivete «nd good humour, which his admirers celebrate in him, owing to this,...have learned from them to admire him at second hand". n On a similar subject Mr. Gray expresses himself thus in a letter to Mr. Walpole, dated March 17,... | |
| Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1827 - 468 pàgines
...child is capable of the same thing, without any study at all. Is'not that naiveti and good humour, which his admirers celebrate in him, owing to this,...usual, have learned from them to admire him at second hand.J tA few paragraphs of particular criticism are here omitted, t On a similar subject Mr. Gray... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1827 - 346 pàgines
...child is capable of the same thing, without any study at all. Is not that naivete and good humour, which his admirers celebrate in him, owing to this,...infant, but one that unhappily has been taught to read aud write ? That childish nation, the French, have given him vogue and fashion, and we, as usual, have... | |
| 1841 - 780 pàgines
...good-humour, which his admirers celebrate in him," asks Gray of the poet Bcattie, " owing to this,—that he has continued all his days an infant, but one that unhappily has been taught to read and write?" Having no lively impressions of any object upon his mind, no zeal for virtue, no enthusiasm in charity,... | |
| Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1864 - 362 pàgines
...delightful. " Is not that naivete and good humour which his friends celebrate in him," Gray asked Beattie, " owing to this — that he has continued all his days an infant, but one who has unhappily been taught to read and write?" No zeal, no virtue, no hope; what a ST01 character!... | |
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