 | Horace Walpole - 1851 - 432 pages
...happened to me a few years ago : Governor Pownall had tired me to death with reading a dissertation on the ruins of a building in Ireland, which he maintained...Johnson's Life of Pope, which Sir Joshua holds to be a chef (Tasuvre. It is a most trumpery performance and stuffed with all his crabbed phrases and vulgarisms,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - English letters - 1851 - 430 pages
...happened to me a few years ago : Governor Pownall had tired me to death with reading a dissertation on the ruins of a building in Ireland, which he maintained...Johnson's Life of Pope, which Sir Joshua holds to be a chef cCceuvre. It is a most trumpery performance and stuffed with all his crabbed phrases and vulgarisms,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1851 - 428 pages
...happened to me a few years ago : Governor Pownall had tired me to death with reading a dissertation on the ruins of a building in Ireland, which he maintained...Johnson's Life of Pope, which Sir Joshua holds to be a chef d'oeuvre. It is a most trumpery performance and stuffed with all his crabbed phrases and vulgarisms,... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1851 - 780 pages
...lively attack on Johnson's style will, we imagine, better chime in with the taste of our own day : " Sir Joshua Reynolds has lent me Dr. Johnson's Life of Pope, which Sir Joshua holds to be a chef d'ccuvre. It is a most trumpery performance, and stuffed with all his crabbed phrases and vulgarisms,... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1858 - 636 pages
...happened to mo a few years ago : Governor Pownall had tired me to death with reading a dissertation on the ruins of a building in Ireland, which he maintained...they were the Ammonians. Sir Joshua Reynolds has lent mo Dr. Johnson's ' Life of Pope," which Sir Joshua holds to be a chff-d'ffnrre. It is a most trumpery... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - English literature - 1887 - 312 pages
...reading, and Pope's is one of the very best of them.* None knew the * Not Horace Walpole's opinion. ' Sir Joshua Reynolds ' has lent me Dr. Johnson's Life of Pope, which Sir Joshua ' holds to be a chef ctceuvre. It is a most trumpery per' formance, and stuffed with all his crabbed phrases and 'vulgarisms,... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - English literature - 1887 - 314 pages
...reading, and Pope's is one of the very best of them.* None knew the * Not Horace Walpole's opinion. ' Sir Joshua Reynolds has lent me Dr. Johnson's Life of Pope, which Sir Joshua holds to be a chef iTceuvrc. It is a most trumpery performance, and stuffed with all his crabbed phrases infirmities... | |
 | Horace Walpole - English letters - 1891 - 652 pages
...happened to me a few years ago: Governor Pownall had tired me to death with reading a dissertation on the ruins of a building in Ireland, which he maintained...nation who lived so long ago that nobody knows who they were,—I did not dare to add, that I suppose they were the Ammonians. Sir Joshua Reynolds has lent... | |
 | AUGUSTINE BIRRELL - 1891 - 350 pages
...reading, and Pope's is one of the very best of them.* None knew the * Not Horace Walpole's opinion. ' Sir Joshua Reynolds has lent me Dr. Johnson's Life of Pope, which Sir Joshua holds to be a chef tfceuvrt. It is a most trumpery performance, and stuffed with all his crabbed phrases infirmities... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1904 - 494 pages
...happened to me a few years ago : Governor Pownall had tired me to death with reading a dissertation on the ruins of a building in Ireland, which he maintained...Johnson's Life of Pope, which Sir Joshua holds to be a chef-d'oeuvre. It is a most trumpery performance, and stuffed with all his crabbed phrases and vulgarisms,... | |
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Chatterton ascribed to him. He said, " oh no, he was persuaded those poems were much older than Rowley ;" I smiled, and begged he would not take it ill, if I told him what happened to... 
