 | Samuel Richardson - Novelists, English - 1804 - 360 pages
...lowness. Had your brother, said I, been born in a stable, or been a runner at a sponging-house, we should have thought him a genius, and •wished he...education, and of being admitted into good company ; but it is beyond my conception, that a man of family, and who liad some learning, and who really... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1821 - 850 pages
...delicacy which could intrude such observations on the ear of his rival's sister : " Poor Fielding ! I could not help telling his sister, that I was equally...education, and of being admitted into good company !" — After this, we are not surprised at its being alleged, that Fielding was destitute of invention... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - Novelists, English - 1825 - 554 pages
...delicacy which could intrude such observations on the ear of his rival's sister : « Poor Fielding, I could not help telling his sister, that I was equally...education, and of being admitted into good company ! » After this we are not surprised at its being alleged that Fielding was destitute of invention... | |
 | Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1825 - 260 pages
...telling his sister, that I was equally surprised at, and concerned for, his continued lowness. Had yoar brother, said I, been born in a stable, or been a...education, and of being admitted into good company \" After this we are not surprised at its being alleged that Fielding was destitute of invention and... | |
 | Henry Fielding - English literature - 1832 - 438 pages
...continued lowness. Had your brother, said I, beeiRwrn in a stable, or been a runner at a spunging house, one should have thought him a genius, and wished he...education, and of being admitted into good company !" After this we are not surprised at its being alleged that Fielding was destitute of invention and... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1834 - 492 pages
...delicacy which could intrude such observations on the ear of his rival's sister : " Poor Fielding ! I could not help telling his sister, that I was equally...education, and of being admitted into good company!" — After this, we are not surprised at its being alleged, that Fielding was destitute of invention... | |
 | Walter Scott - Chivalry - 1834 - 484 pages
...delicacy which could intrude such observations on the ear of his rival's sister : " Poor Fielding ! I could not help telling his sister, that I was equally...education, and of being admitted into good company !"— After this, we are not surprised at its being alleged, that Fielding was destitute of invention... | |
 | Walter Scott - France - 1834 - 506 pages
...delicacy which could intrude such observations on the ear of his rival's sister : " Poor Fielding ! I could not help telling his sister, that I was equally...education, and of being admitted into good company!" — After this, we are not surprised at its being alleged, that Fielding was destitute of invention... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review - 1846 - 790 pages
...lowness. Had your brother, said I, been born in a stable, or been a runner at a sponging house, we should have thought him a genius, and wished he had...education, and of being admitted into good company ; but it is beyond my conception, that a man of family, and who had some learning, and who really is... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1847 - 726 pages
...the delicacy which could intrude such observations on the ear of his rival's sister: "Poor Fielding! I could not help telling his sister, that I was equally...education, and of being admitted into good company ¡"—After this, we are not surprised at its being alleged that Fielding was destitute of invention... | |
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Poor Fielding ! I could not help telling his sister, that I was equally surprised at and concerned for his continued lowness. Had your brother, said I, been born in a stable, or been a runner at a sponging-house, we should have thought him a genius, and... 
