 | Sydney Smith - 1889 - 470 oldal
...Yes, I agree, he is certainly more agreeable since his return from India. His enemies might, perhaps, have said before (though I never did so) that he talked...is far better and more important than all this is, I believe Macaulay to be incorruptible. You might lay ribbons, stars, garters, wealth, titles, before... | |
 | 1891 - 556 oldal
...conversationalist: "Yes, he is certainly more agreeable since his return from India. His enemies might perhaps have said before (though I never did so) that he talked...that make his conversation perfectly delightful." FLATTERY TURNED то ADVANTAGE. A dependent was praising his patron for many virtues which he did not... | |
 | 1892 - 182 oldal
...And young as beautiful ! And soft as young ! And gay as soft! And innocent as gay ! " S-YM — R — "He has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful." SN-LI,.— " With the smile that was child-like and bland." ST-CY.— " This fellow seems to me to... | |
 | André Chevrillon - 1894 - 472 oldal
...Yes, I agree, he is certainly more agreeable since his return from lu. lia. His enemies might perhaps have said before (though I never did so) that he talked...rather too much ; but now he has occasional flashes oj silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful. " 2. Par exemple : " Miss Edgeworth was... | |
 | André Chevrillon - 1894 - 470 oldal
...is certainly more agreeable since his return from India. His enemies might perhaps have said beforc (though I never did so) that he talked rather too much ; but now he has occasional flashes oj silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful. " 2. Par exemple : " Miss Edgeworth was... | |
 | André Chevrillon - 1894 - 452 oldal
...is certainly more agreeable since his return from India. His cnemies might perhaps have said beforc (though I never did so) that he talked rather too much ; but now l1e l1as occasional flashes oj silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful. " 2. Par exemple... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 oldal
...SIB PHILIP SIDNEY — The Arcadia. Thirsis and Dona. Macaulay is like a book in breeches • * • l Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation. d. YOUNG— Night Thoughts. Nigh c. SYDNEY SMITH — Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. IP 363. Silence oppresses with too great a weight.... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1896 - 256 oldal
...of himself with Sydney Smith's witty description of Macaulay: " Macaulay is like a book in breeches. He has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful." 3 Cf. with " the reputation of " on p. 2 and note 7. " A satire on great undertakings with small returns.... | |
 | Rounsevelle Wildman - 1900 - 266 oldal
...The drtist. — " Still I wish one might say of the Contributor as Sydney Smith said of Macaulay, ' He has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.' " The Typewriter. — " There is a gentleman out here that would like to have a short conversazione... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 oldal
...for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones." iud. Macanlay is like a book in breeches. . . . He has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful. p. 363. Serenely full, the epicure would say, Fate cannot harm me, — I have dined to-day.3 Eecipe... | |
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His enemies might perhaps have said before (though I never did so) that he talked rather too much ; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful. 
