 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1884 - 504 pages
...revenues. Adieu. JON. SWIFT. FROM MR. POPE. To answer your question as to Mr. Hughes, what he wanted as to genius he made up as an honest man : but he was of the class you think him. I am glad you think of Dr. Rundle as I do. He will be an honour to the bishops, and a disgrace to one... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1884 - 504 pages
...revenues. Adieu. JON. SWIFT. FROM MR. POPE. To answer your question as to Mr. Hughes, what he wanted as to genius he made up as an honest man : but he was of the class you think him. I am glad you think of Dr. Rundle as I do. He will be an honour to the bishops, and a disgrace to one... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1871 - 534 pages
...&c. 120. POPE TO SWIFT. [Nov., 1786]. To answer your question as to Mr. Hughes, what he wanted as to genius he made up as an honest man : but he was of the class you think him. I am glad you think of Dr. Bundle as I do. He will be an honour to the bishops, and a disgrace to one... | |
 | William Ralph Hall Caine - English poetry - 1892 - 320 pages
...a poet for me ; and I think him among the mediocrists, in prose as well as verse.' Pope replied, ' What he wanted in genius he made up as an honest man ; but he was of the class you think him.' To a beautiful Lady playing on the Organ. WHEN famed Cecilia on the organ played, And filled with moving... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - American essays - 1900 - 462 pages
...Damascus " was being warmly applauded at Drury Lane Theatre, where it had "made a hit," he was dying. "What he wanted in genius he made up as an honest man," Pope said of him. THE WONDERFUL NATURE OF EXCELLENT MINDS Tentanda via est, qud me quoque passim Tollere... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1905 - 456 pages
...per- 8 Swift wrote mediocribus, with To this Pope returns : ' To answer your question as to Mr. 20 Hughes ; what he wanted in genius, he made up as an...honest man ; but he was of the class you think him.' In Spence's collections Pope is made to speak of him with still 21 less respect, as having no claim... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - Authors, Irish - 1913 - 504 pages
...[September, I73S-] To answer your question as to Mr. Hughes, I did just know him.3 What he wanted as to genius he made up as an honest man, but he was of the class you think him. I am glad you think of Dr. Rundle as I do. He will be an honour to the Bishops, and a disgrace to one... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 pages
...mediocrists, in prose as well as verse.' " To this Pope returns : ' To answer your question as to Mr. Hughes ; what he wanted in genius, he made up as an...honest man ; but he was of the class you think him.' " As it was thought necessary to admit men of such slender pretensions into such very reputable society,... | |
 | Nigel Fortune - Music - 2005 - 410 pages
...never heard of Hughes and found him mediocre. Pope replied: 'I did just know him. What he wanted as to genius he made up as an honest man: but he was of the class you think him.' There is no bitterness here; Hughes's other virtues evidently outweighed his epigram. Pope had also... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 418 pages
...Mediocrists in " prose as well as verse." To this Pope returns : " To answer your question " as to Mr. Hughes ; what he wanted in genius, " he made up as...honest man ; but he was of " the class you think him." * In Spence's Collection Pope is made to speak of him with still less' respect, as having no claim... | |
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To answer your question as to Mr. Hughes ; what he wanted in genius, he made up as an honest man ; but he was of the class you think him. 
