 | William Hazlitt - 1826 - 488 страници
...himself, the most delightful, the most provoking, the most witty and sensible of men. He always made the best pun, and the best remark in the course of the evening. His serious conversation, like his serious writing, is his best. No one ever stammered out such fine,... | |
 | 1836 - 540 страници
...himself, the most delightful, the most provoking, the most witty and sensible of men. He always made the best pun, and the best remark in the course of the evening. His serious conversation, like his serious writing, is his best. No one ever stammered out such fine,... | |
 | 1837 - 666 страници
...Lamb himself, the delightful, the most provoking, the most witty and sensible of men. He always made the best pun and the best remark in the course of the evening. His serious conversation, like his serious writing, is his best. No one ever stammered out such fine,... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1839 - 450 страници
...eyes — Procter said of them that " they looked as if they could pick up pins and needles " — and a wit as quick as his eyes, and sure, as Hazlitt described,...evening. Next to him, shining verdantly out from the grave-coloured suits of the literati, like a patch of turnips amidst stubble and fallow, behold our... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 352 страници
...he is " the most delightful, the most provoking, the most witty and sensible of men. He always makes the best pun and the best remark in the course of the evening. His serious conversation, like his serious writing, is his best. No one ever stammered out such fine,... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 354 страници
...he is "the most delightful, the most provoking, the most witty and sensible of men. He always makes the best pun and the best remark in the course of the evening. His serious conversation, like his serious writing, is his best. No one ever stammered out such fine,... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 714 страници
...he is " the most delightful, the most provoking, the most witty and sensible of men. He always makes the best pun and the best remark in the course of the evening. His serious conversation, like his serious writing, is his best. No one ever stammered out such fine,... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1845 - 442 страници
...eyes — Procter said of them that " they looked as if they could pick up pins and needles" — and a wit as quick as his eyes, and sure, as Hazlitt described,...evening. Next to him, shining verdantly out from the grave-colored suits of the literati, like a patch of turnips amidst stubble and fallow, behold our... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1845 - 434 страници
...eyes — Procter said of them that " they looked as if they could pick up pins and needles" — and a wit as quick as his eyes, and sure, as Hazlitt described,...evening. Next to him, shining verdantly out from the grave-colored suits of the literati, like a patch of turnips amidst stubble and fallow, behold our... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1846 - 672 страници
...eyes — Procter said of them that " they looked as if they could pick up pins and needles" — and a wit as quick as his eyes, and sure, as Hazlitt described,...evening. Next to him, shining verdantly out from the grave-colored suits of the literati, like a patch of turnips amidst stubble and fallow, behold our... | |
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Lamb himself, the most delightful, the most provoking, the most witty and sensible of men. He always made the best pun and the best remark in the course of the evening. 
