 | 1821 - 608 pages
...meditated on muffineers and planned pokers ? — Where has he hidden all this eloquence and poetry up to this hour? — How is it that he has, all of a...Tacitus — and displayed a depth of feeling, and a vigour of imagination, which Lord Byron could not excel? We do not shrink from one syllable of this... | |
 | 1821 - 526 pages
...meditated on muffineers and planned pokers ? — Where has he hidden all this eloquence and poetry up to this hour ? — How is it that he has, all of a...Tacitus — and displayed a depth of feeling, and a vigour of imagination, which Lord Byron could not excel ? We do not shrink from one syllable of this... | |
 | 1821 - 522 pages
...meditated on muffineers and planned pokers ?—Where has he hidden all this eloquence and poetry up to this hour ?—How is it that he has, all of a sudden,...into descriptions which would not disgrace the pen of Tacitus—and displayed a depth of feeling, and a vigour of imagination, which Lord Byron could not... | |
 | 1831 - 472 pages
...peculiar to northern criticism, he asks, " Where has Mr. Hope hidden all his eloquence and poetry up to this hour ? How is it that he has, all of a sudden,...We do not shrink from one syllable of this eulogy." The subjects upon which Mr. Hope had previously written were not calculated to call forth his eloquent... | |
 | Thomas Hope - Greece - 1831 - 476 pages
...meditated on muffineers and planned pokers ? — Where has he hidden all this eloquence and poetry up to this hour? — how is it that he has, all of a...Tacitus — and displayed a depth of feeling, and a vigour of imagination, which Lord Byron could not excel !" A critic in Blackwood's Magazine contrived... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1840 - 424 pages
...meditated on muffineers and planned pokers ? — Where has he hidden all this eloquence and poetry up to this hour? — How is it that he has, all of a...Tacitus — and displayed a depth of feeling, and a vigour of imagination, which Lord Byron could not excel ? We do not shrink from one syllable of this... | |
 | Sydney Smith - English literature - 1844 - 412 pages
...meditated on muffineers and planned pokers?—Where has he hidden all this eloquence and poetry up to this hour ?—How is it that he has, all of a sudden,...into descriptions which would not disgrace the pen of Tacitus—and displayed a depth of feeling and a vigour of imagination which Lord Byron could not excel... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1846 - 368 pages
...? — Where has he hidden all this elo[uence and poetry up to this hour? — How is it that he tas, all of a sudden, burst out into descriptions which...of Tacitus — and displayed a depth of feeling and a vigour of imagination which -ord Byron could not excel ? We do not shrink from ne syllable of this... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1847 - 524 pages
...who meditated on muffineers and planned pokers? Where has he hidden all this eloquence and poetry up to this hour? How is it that he has all of a sudden...of Tacitus — and displayed a depth of feeling and a vigour of imagination which Lord Byron could not excel ? We do not shrink from one syllable of this... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1848 - 520 pages
...meditated on muffineers and planned pokers? — Where has he hidden all this eloquence and poetry up to this hour ? — How is it that he has, all of a...of Tacitus — and displayed a depth of feeling and a vigour of imagination which Lord Byron could not excel ? We do not shrink from one syllable of this... | |
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... is this Mr. Thomas Hope ? Is this the man of chairs and tables — the gentleman of sphinxes — the CEdipus of coalboxes — he who meditated on muffineers and planned pokers? Where has he hidden all this eloquence and poetry up to this hour? How... 
