 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 752 strani
...poets little enough to envy even a poet laureate. . . . TO RICHARD STONEHEWER August 18, 1758. . . . You say you cannot conceive how Lord Shaftesbury came...philosopher in vogue. I will tell you. First, he was a lord; 2dly, he was as vain as any of his readers; 3dly, men are very prone to believe what they do not understand... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 strani
...poets little enough to envy even a poet laureate. . . . TO RICHARD STONEHEWER August 1 8, 1758. . . . You say you cannot conceive how Lord Shaftesbury came...philosopher in vogue. I will tell you. First, he was a lord; zdly, he was as vain as any of his readers; 3dly, men are very prone to believe what they do not understand;... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 strani
...poets little enough to envy even a poet laureate. . . . TO RICHARD STONEHEWER August 18, 1758. . . . You say you cannot conceive how Lord Shaftesbury came...philosopher in vogue. I will tell you. First, he was a lord; adly, he was as vain as any of his readers; 3dly, men are very prone to believe what they do not understand;... | |
 | Gustav Wendt - 1911 - 352 strani
...Navy. (Biichertitel.) 4. Dr. Johnson was right for once about Gray, when he gave it as his opinion that he "was a man likely to love much where he loved at all." (Per.) 5. But how about the manly British boy and those compulsory games of his of which we hear so... | |
 | Oswald Doughty - 1922 - 488 strani
...capacity for affection, if circumstances had led to its development. As Johnson shrewdly observed, " he was a man likely to love much where he loved at all." • Despite his melancholy, Gray possessed a quiet, dry sense of humour. A man of thought rather than... | |
 | David Patrick, William Geddie - 1924 - 862 strani
...made, from ' a slight inspection of his letters,' one solitary remark that showed insight, that Gray ' was a man likely to love much where he loved at all.' Certainly no silent and melancholy poet was ever more happy in his friendships, and few men have been... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1925 - 450 strani
...he gave full measure of love, pressed down and running over, to his friends. As Dr. Johnson saw, ' he was a man likely to love much where he loved at all '. In truth, the second verse of the Epitaph at the end of the Elegy written, perhaps, by Gray when... | |
 | Thomas Gray, Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith - 1926 - 206 strani
...engaged me, is that his mind had a large grasp ; that his curiosity was < unlimited, and his judgement cultivated ; that he was a man likely to love much...scepticism and infidelity. ) His short account of Shaf tesbury 10 I will insert. ' You say you cannot conceive how lord Shaftesbury came to be a philosopher... | |
 | Amal Asfour, Dr Paul Williamson, Paul Williamson - 1999 - 360 strani
...Shaftesbury was ever read at all, Thomas Gray gave the following sobering verdict on his reputation: You say you cannot conceive how Lord Shaftesbury came...Philosopher in vogue; I will tell you: First, he was a Lord; idly, he was as vain as any of his readers; 3dly, men are very prone to believe what they do not understand;... | |
 | Stephen Miller - 2001 - 226 strani
...times, without the smallest reserve. . . ,"39 Johnson praised Thomas Gray for having a "contempt [that] is often employed, where I hope it will be approved, upon scepticism and infidelity."40 His dislike of religious sceptics was so great that he did not use Hobbes and Mandeville... | |
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... cultivated ; that he was a man likely to love much where he loved at all, but that he was fastidious and hard to please. 
