| Tobias George Smollett, Sir Walter Scott - 1835 - 558 pages
...themselves in various departments of literature. Not only their talents, but also their nations and dialects were so various, that our conversation resembled the...Scotch accent, and foreign idiom, twanged off by the must discordant vociferation ; for, as they all spoke together, no man had any chance to be heard,... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...sent to the press ; but that if he persisted in declining his friendship, he would publish the satire without delay. S replied. that he looked upon Wyvil's...louder than his fellows. It must be owned, however, that there was nothing pedantic in their discourse; they carefully avoided all learned disquisitions,... | |
| Half hours - 1856 - 456 pages
...conduct on this occasion that reconciled him to the yellow-gloved philosopher, who owned he had somo genius, and from that period cultivated his acquaintance....together, no man had any chance to be heard, unless ho could bawl louder than his fellows. It must be owned, however, that there was nothing pedantic in... | |
| Half hours - 1856 - 650 pages
...several talents of my fellow-guests were employed, I applied to my communicative friend, Dick Iv7, who gave me to understand that most of them were,...brogue, the Scotch accent, and foreign idiom, twanged oft' by the most discordant vociferation ; for, as they all spoke together, no man had any chance to... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1873 - 610 pages
...long struggle talents, but al-o their nations and dialects, were so various, that our convereatiou resembled the confusion of tongues at Babel. We had the Irish brogue, the bcptch accent, and foreign idiom, twanged otí' by the most discordant vociferation ; for as they all... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881 - 732 pages
...in various departments of literature. Not only their talents, but also their nations and dialects, were so various, that our conversation resembled the...must be owned, however, there was nothing pedantic in iheir discourse ; they carefully avoided all learned disquisitions, and endeavored (o be facetious... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881 - 878 pages
...and dialects, were m various, that our conversation resembled the confusion of ton-fin's at Bsbei. We had the Irish brogue, the Scotch accent, and foreign...chance to be heard, unless he could bawl louder than hil fellows. It must be owned, however, there was nothing pedantic in their discourse ; they carefully... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - England - 1882 - 874 pages
...in various departments of literature. Not only their talents, but also their nations and dialects, were so various, that our conversation resembled the...any chance to be heard, unless he could bawl louder thau his fellows. It must be owned, however, there was nothing pedantic in their discourse ; they carefully... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1885 - 416 pages
...in various departments of literature. Not only their talents, but also their nations and dialects, were so various, that our conversation resembled the...louder than his fellows. It must be owned, however, endless literary battles ; and braved and wielded for years the cudgels of controversy. It was a hard... | |
| David Hannay - Novelists, Scottish - 1887 - 190 pages
...themselves in various departments of literature. Not only their talents, but also their nations and dialects were so various, that our conversation resembled the confusion of tongues at Babel." The rest of this, "the most diverting of young Melford's letters to Sir Watkin Philips," as Lockhart... | |
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