 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1903 - 494 pages
...cannot do it in a more compendious method. I agree with you most absolutely in your opinion about Gray : he is the worst company in the world —from a melancholy...dignity, he never converses easily — all his words '"' Mayfiur Chapel, where four aa follows in the register of St. 'Fleet parsons' (deputies of Alex-... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English essays - 1904 - 458 pages
...said, " Yes, my Lady, I believe so." ' I agree with you most absolutely in your opinion about Gray ; he is the worst company in the world. From a melancholy...writings are admirable. He himself is not agreeable.' But it is not only to his particular friends that he is thus amiably candid. Two other great names... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English essays - 1904 - 456 pages
...Yes, my Lady, I believe so." ' I agree with you most absolutely in your opinion about Gray ; he i62 is the worst company in the world. From a melancholy...writings are admirable. He himself is not agreeable.' But it is not only to his particular friends that he is thus amiably candid. Two other great names... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1905 - 582 pages
...condescended to correct what he never could have descended to write.' 3 Walpole wrote in 1748: — 'Gray is the worst company in the world. From a melancholy...writings are admirable ; he himself is not agreeable.' Letters, ii. ii& See also Mitford, i. Preface, p. 64. Bonstetten said of him : — ' II avail de la... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1906 - 592 pages
...cannot do it in a more commodious method. I agree with you most absolutely in your opinion about Gray : he is the worst company in the world. From a melancholy...sentences ; his writings are admirable ; he himself is not agreeable.3 There are still two months to London : if you could discover your own mind for any three... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 616 pages
...by E. Gosse, 1882.— SHARP, R. FARQUHARSON, 1897, A Dictionary of English Authors, p. 118. PERSONAL He is the worst company in the world, From a melancholy...writings are admirable ; he himself is not agreeable. — WALPOLE, HORACE, 1748, To George Montague, Sep. 3; Letters, ed. Cunningham, vol. n, p. 128. Mr.... | |
 | Francis Cotterell Hodgson - England - 1913 - 464 pages
...another time he said of Gray to George Montagu, who had himself known Gray since they were Eton boys : " He is the worst company in the world — from a melancholy...sentences ; his writings are admirable : he himself is not agreeable."1 When Gray returned to England in September, 1741, he did not intend to return to Cambridge,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1915 - 252 pages
...Gray ; he is the worst company in the J , > i world. From a melancholy turn, from living reclusely, W and from a little too much dignity, he never converses...easily ; all his words are measured and chosen, and v formed into sentences ; his writings are admirable ; he aimself is not agreeable.' 2 A later sketch... | |
 | Gamaliel Bradford - Authors - 1924 - 376 pages
...unapproachable, and few indeed were those who suc75 ceeded in approaching him. Walpole said of him: "He is the worst company in the world, — from a...little too much dignity, he never converses easily ... his writings are admirable; he himself is not agreeable." 19 That there were times when he could... | |
 | American literature - 1924 - 902 pages
...rather unapproachable, and few indeed were those who succeeded in approaching him. Walpole said of him: "He is the worst company in the world, from a melancholy...little too much dignity, he never converses easily , . . his writings are admirable; he himself is not agreeable." That there were times when he could... | |
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I agree with you most absolutely in your opinion about Gray ; he is the worst company in the world. From a melancholy turn, from living reclusely, and from a little too much dignity, he never converses easily ; all his words are measured and chosen, and... 
