 | 1767 - 572 oldal
...When I talked my beft, " I talked Horace ; when I aimed at being facetious, I quoted Martial j •' and when I had a mind' to be a fine gentleman, I talked Ovid. I was ff convinced that none but the antients had common fenfe ; that the claffics •« contained every... | |
 | 1774 - 428 oldal
...me in that important article by two or three years at leait) at nineteen, I left the .univerllty oi Cambridge, where I was an abfolute pedant ; when I...when I had a mind to be a fine gentleman, I talked Ovijj. I was convinced that .none but the ancients had common fenfe; that the daffies contained every... | |
 | 1774 - 622 oldal
...nineteen, I left tlie univerfity of Cambridge, where 1 was an abfolnte pedant: when I talked my belt, I quoted Horace; when I aimed at being facetious,...gentleman, I talked Ovid. I was convinced that none buc the ancients had common fenfe ; that the Claflics contained every thing that was either neccflary,... | |
 | Several Hands - 1774 - 642 oldal
...when I talked my bed, I quoted Horace ; when I aimed at being facetious, I quoted Martial ; and when'I had a mind to be a fine gentleman, I talked Ovid. I was convinced that none but the ancients had common fenfe ; that the dailies contained every thing that was either neceflhry, ufeful,... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1801 - 474 oldal
...(tart of me in that important article by two or three years at leaft. At nineteen I left the univerfity of Cambridge, where I was an abfolute pedant : when...gentleman, I talked Ovid, • I was convinced that none tut the ancients had common fenfe ; that the claffics contained every thing that was either neceflary,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1816 - 518 oldal
...became, according to his own account, an absolute pedant. " When I talked my best," he says, "I talked Horace; when I aimed at being facetious, I quoted...gentleman, I talked Ovid. I was convinced that none but the ancients had common sense ; that the classics contained every thing that was either necessary, or useful,... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.) - 1813 - 408 oldal
...was an absolute pedant : when I talked my best, I quoted Horaee ; when I aimed at being faeetious, I quoted Martial ; and when I had a mind to be a fine gentleman, I talked Ovid. I was eonvineed that none but the" *neieuti had eommon sense ; that the elassies eontained evtrv Ee2 thing... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1816 - 522 oldal
...became, according to his own account, an absolute pedant. " When I talked my best," he says, " I talked Horace ; when I aimed at being facetious, I quoted...gentleman, I talked Ovid. I was convinced that none but the ancients had common sense ; that the classics contained every thing that was either necessary, or useful,... | |
 | 1868 - 800 oldal
...loved learning better than the art of savoir rirre), " I was an absolute pedant. When I talked my best, I quoted Horace ; when I aimed at being facetious,...gentleman, I talked Ovid. I was convinced that none but the ancients had common sense ; that the classics contained everything that was necessary, useful, or ornamental... | |
 | 1828 - 200 oldal
...pedant. Wh I talked my best, I quoted Horace: when I aim at being facetious, I quoted Marshall; and whei had a mind to be a fine gentleman, I talked Ovid. I I was convinced that none but the ancients had common sense; that the classics contained every thing... | |
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I was an absolute pedant : when I talked my best, I quoted Horace ; when I aimed at being facetious, I quoted Martial ; and when I had a mind to be a fine gentleman, I talked Ovid. 
