 | Horace Walpole - English literature - 1759 - 272 pages
...themfelves authors. Such was this Lord : of an advantageous figure, and enterprizing fpirit ; as galant as Amadis and as brave, but a little more expeditious in his journeys, for He is faid " to have feen more Kings and * Vide Pierage in IVmchelfea, I more more poftilions than any man... | |
 | Horace Walpole - English literature - 1792 - 544 pages
...find themfelves authors. Such was this Lord : of an advantageous figure, and enterprizing fpirit ; as gallant as Amadis, and as brave, but a little more expeditious in his journeys ; for he is faid " to have feen more kings, and F 3 more •£ Vide Peerage in Winchelfea, more poftilions than... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1796 - 402 pages
...been affured from very good authority, was not written by him. t Vide Peerage in Wincheifca. madis, and as brave, but a little more expeditious in his journeys ; for he is faid '* to have feen more " kings, and more poftilions than any man inEu* " rope." His enmity to the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1797 - 454 pages
...find themfelves authors. Such was this Lord : of . an advantageous figure, and enterpriflng fpirit ; as gallant as Amadis and as brave, but a little more expeditious in his journies ; for he is faid " to have feen more ' Kings and more poftilions than any man in Europe."... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1797 - 450 pages
...find themfelves authors. Such was this Lord : of an advantageous figure, and enterprifing fpirit ; as gallant as' Amadis and as brave, but a little more expeditious in his journies ; for he is faid " to have feen more Kings and more poftilions than any man in Europe." His... | |
 | Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806 - 534 pages
...PETERBOROUGH, ONE of those men of careless wit and negligent grace, who scatter a thousand bon-mots and idle verses, which we painful compilers gather...in Europe." His enmity to the duke of Marlborough, and his friendship with Pope, will preserve his name, when his genius, too romantic to have laid a... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 556 pages
...find themfelvcs authors. Such was this Lord : of an advantageous figure, and enterprifing fpirit ; as gallant as Amadis and as brave, but a little more expeditious in his jonrnies ; for he is faid " to have ften more Kings and more poftilions than any man in Europe." His... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 570 pages
...owners stare to find themselves authors. Such was this lord : of an advantageous figure, and enterpnzing spirit : as gallant as Amadis, and as brave, but a...kings and more postillions than any man in Europe." He was indeed so active a traveller, according to Dean Swift, that queen Anne's ministers used to say,... | |
 | Arthur Collins - 1812 - 824 pages
...stare to find themselves authors. Such was tliis Lord : of an advantageous figure and enterpriz'mg spirit ; as gallant as Amadis, and as brave, but a little more expeditious in his journies; for he is said " lo have seen more Kings, and more postillions, than any man in Europe."... | |
 | Arthur Collins, Sir Egerton Brydges - Aristocracy (Social class) - 1812 - 828 pages
...a thousand bon-mots, and idla rerses, which we painful compilers gather and board, till the awners stare to find themselves authors. Such was this Lord : of an advantageous figure and enterprizing spirit ; as gallant ai Amadis, and as brave, but a little more expeditious in his journies;... | |
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He was one of those men of careless wit and negligent grace, who scatter a thousand bon-mots and idle verses, which we painful compilers gather and hoard, till the authors stare to find themselves authors. Such was this lord, of an advantageous figure... 
