 In fine, a most excellent person he is, and must be allowed a little for a little conceitedness ; but he may well be so, being a man so much above others.  The Quarterly Review - Page 10edited by - 1896Full view - About this book
 | 1907 - 584 pages
...me part of a play or two of his making, very good, but not as he conceits them, I think, to be. ... In fine, a most excellent person he is, and must be...may well be so, being a man so much above others. He read me, though with too much gusto, some little poems of his own, that were not transcendant, yet... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1825 - 726 pages
...several plants kept dry, which preserve colour, however, and look very finely, better than an herball. In fine, a most excellent person he is, and must be...may well be so, being a man so much above others, He read me, though with too much gusto, some little poems of his own that were not transcendant, yet... | |
 | J. S. Forsyth - Great Britain - 1825 - 422 pages
...several plants kept dry, which preserve colour, however, and look very finely, better than ail herball. In fine, a most excellent person he is, and must be...may well be so, being a man so much above others. He read me, though with too much gusto, some little poems of his own that were not transcendant, yet... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1825 - 710 pages
...plants kept dry, which preserve colour, however, and look very finely, better than an herball. In £ne, a most excellent person he is, and must be allowed...little for a little conce'itedness ; but he may well be ao, being a man so much above others. He read me, though with too much gusto, some little poems of... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1896 - 600 pages
...days after their drive Pepys was favoured with a copy of Mr. Evelyn's translation of Gabriel Naudaeus' work ' Concerning Libraries,' accompanied, no doubt,...and worthy person, and the more I know him the more I love him,' recurs repeatedly in the pages of Pepys. Sometimes the two ' walk together in the garden... | |
 | American periodicals - 1850 - 638 pages
...language employed by Pepys. " In fine, a most excellent person he is — ami must he allowed a little for conceitedness ; but he may well be so, being a man so much above others." Thai is quite true. He was greatly above the vast majority of his contemporaries ; and the Diary which... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review - 1846 - 788 pages
...several plants kept dry, which preserve colour, however, and look very finely, better than an herball. In fine a most excellent person he is, — and must...may well be so, being a man so much above others. He read me, though wilh too much gusto, some little poems of his own that were not transcendant ; yet... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review - 1846 - 790 pages
...several plants kept dry, which preserve colour, however, and look very finely, better than an herbal). In fine a most excellent person he is, — and must...may well be so, being a man so much above others. He read me, though with too much gusto, some little poems of his own that were not transcendant; yet... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review (1802) - 1846 - 794 pages
...very finely, better than an herbatl. In fine a tDMt excellent person he is. — and mutt bt allowed tt little for a little conceitedness ; but he may well be so, being a man so much above others. He read me, fAougA uith loo much gvito, some little poems of his own thnt were not lro.nKenda.nl; yet... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - Great Britain - 1848 - 466 pages
...several plants kept dry, which preserve colour, however, and look very finely, better than an Herball. In fine, a most excellent person he is, and must be...may well be so, being a man so much above others. He read me, though with too much gusto, some little poems of his own, that were not transcendant, yet... | |
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