| Daniel Defoe - 1790 - 500 páginas
...equalled. Yet, of this great performance, faid Gay; *' The poor Review is quite exhaufted, and grown fo very contemptible, that though he has provoked all his brothers of the quill, none will enter into a controverfy with him. The fellow, who had excellent natural parts, but wanted... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 434 páginas
...notice of as the original piece is more or less agreeable. •As to our weekly papers, the poor Review} is quite exhausted, and grown so very contemptible,...brothers of the quill round, none of them will enter into contro? versy with him. This fellow, who had excellent * The Monthly Transactions began in January... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1813 - 324 páginas
...notice of as the original piece is more or less agreeable. As to our weekly papers, the poor Reviewf is quite exhausted, and grown so very contemptible,...brothers of the quill round, none of them will enter into controversy with him. This fellow, who had excellent natural parts, but wanted a small foundation of... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 676 páginas
...notice of as the original piece is more or less agreeable. As to our weekly papers, the poor Review * is quite exhausted, and grown so very contemptible,...brothers of the quill round, none of them will enter into controversy with him. This fellow, who had excellent natural parts, but wanted a small foundation of... | |
| Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 686 páginas
...notice of as the original piece is more or less agreeable. As to our weekly papers, the poor Review * is quite exhausted, and grown so very contemptible,...brothers of the quill round, none of them will enter into controversy with him. This fellow, who had excellent natural parts, but wanted a small foundation of... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1824 - 538 páginas
...Thomas's Hospital. His periodical paper above mentioned was a very dull one. He died October 15, 1743. exhausted, and grown so very contemptible, that though...brothers of the quill round, none of them will enter into controversy with him. This fellow, who had excellent natural parts, but wanted a small foundation of... | |
| Walter Wilson - 1830 - 718 páginas
...work as few of our writers have equalled." Yet, of this great performance, said Gay, ' The poor Review is quite exhausted, and grown so very contemptible,...though he has provoked all his brothers of the quill, none will enter into a controversy with him. The fellow, who had excellent natural parts, but wanted... | |
| Daniel Defoe, George Chalmers - 1841 - 406 páginas
...work, as few of our writers have equalled. Yet, of this great performance, said Gay, " The poor Review is quite exhausted, and grown so very contemptible,...though he has provoked all his brothers of the quill, none will enter into a controversy with him. The fellow, who had excellent natural parts, but wanted... | |
| 1846 - 386 páginas
...year or two before it ceased to exist Gay thus wrote of it in his 'State of Wit:' "The poor 'Review' is quite exhausted, and grown so very contemptible,...though he has provoked all his brothers of the quill, none will enter into a controversy with him. The fellow, who had excellent natural parts, but wanted... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1859 - 636 páginas
...writings to disprove. The poet Gay, adopting the cant of the Scriblerus Club, speaks of him as ' a fellow who had excellent natural parts, but wanted a small foundation of learning,' and cites him as ' a lively instance of those wits who, as an ingenious author says, will endure but... | |
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