 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 páginas
...think, the last man of character that had it; Eusden was a person of great hopes in his youth, tho' at last he turned out a drunken parson; Dryden was...poorest scribbler could have been from his verses. LETTER XXIX. MR. GRAY TO DR. WHARTON. February «i, l738, \ > OULD you know what I am doing? I doubt... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 618 páginas
...credit. Rowe was, I tbjnk, the last man of character that had it ; Eusden was a person of great hopes in his youth, though at last he turned out a drunken...poorest scribbler could have been from his verses. LETTER LXXI. *M«- GRAY TO D"- WHARTON. February 21, 1758. DEAR DOCTOR, I FEEL very ungrateful (which... | |
 | 1821 - 394 páginas
...credit.— Rowe was, I think, the last man of character that had it ; Eusden was a person of great hopes in his youth, though at last he turned out a drunken...office, from his character, as the poorest scribbler couM have been from his verses. C. TO DR. WHARTON. February 21, I?i8. WOULD you know what I am doing... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1820 - 492 páginas
...credit. — Rowe was, I think, the last man of character that had it; Eusden was a person of great hopes in his youth, though at last he turned out a drunken...poorest scribbler could have been from his verses, C. TO DR. WHARTOS. February 21, nig. WOULD you know what 1 am doing? 1 doubt * Of being poet laureate... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1820 - 548 páginas
...credit. Rowe was, I think, the last man of character that had it; Eusden was a person of great hopes in his youth, though at last he turned out a drunken...poorest scribbler could have been from his verses. • An attempt was accordingly made to improve it ; how it stood when this criticism upon it was written,... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1827 - 468 páginas
...credit. Rowe was, I think, the last man of character that had it ; Eusden was a person of great hopes in his youth, though at last he turned out a drunken...poorest scribbler could .have been from his verses. * An attempt was accordingly made to improve it; how it stood when this criticism upon it was written,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1835 - 330 páginas
...credit. Rowe was, I think, the last man of character that had it ; Eusden was a person of great hopes in his youth, though at last he turned out a drunken...poorest scribbler could have been from his verses. LXXIX. MR. GRAY TO DR. WHARTON. DEAR DOCTOR, February 21, 1758. I FEEL very ungrateful (which is the... | |
 | Andrew Amos - 1846 - 574 páginas
...credit of the thing, if it be retrievable. Eusden (the deceased laurcat) was a writer of great hopes in his youth, though, at last, he turned out a drunken parson." The names of several modern encomiasts of English sovereigns have, "at some unlucky time,'' acquired... | |
 | Andrew Amos - 1846 - 598 páginas
...credit of the thing, if it be retrievable. Eusden (the deceased laureat) was a writer of great hopes in his youth, though, at last, he turned out a drunken parson." The names of several modern encomiasts of English sovereigns have, " at some unlucky time," acquired... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 536 páginas
...in his Life, p. 243 ; and he still lives embalmed and immortal in the Dunciad of Pope, bi ver. 90. in his youth, though at last he turned out a drunken...character, as the poorest scribbler could have been from Ms verses. The office itself has always humbled the professor hitherto (even in an age when kings were... | |
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Eusden was a person of great hopes in his youth, though at last he turned out a drunken parson. Dryden was as disgraceful to the office from his character, as the poorest scribbler could have been from his verses. 
