 | George Payne Rainsford James - 1839 - 228 sider
...the turn of the expression, as well as in the thought, which was the more painful and aggravating, because the mere words were not ungentlemanly. In...genius, that most rare of all jewels. The belief that he possessed genius, based upon natural self-conceit, and stimulated into activity by egregious vanity,... | |
 | George Payne Rainsford James - 1839 - 316 sider
...the turn of the expression, as well as in the thought, which was the more painful and aggravating, because the mere words were not ungentlemanly. In...those talents made him idly fancy that he possessed genius—that most rare of all jewels. The belief that he possessed genius, based upon natural self-conceit,... | |
 | 1839 - 658 sider
...language. We quote a life-like sketch, — the portrait of a man that has often been met with ; — " There is in all ages and at all times a class of young...genius— that most rare of all jewels. The belief that he possessed genius, based upon natural self-conceit, and stimulated into activity by egregious vanity,... | |
 | 1839 - 694 sider
...the nineteenth century, this distinction is now thoughtlessly abandoned. A DISAGREEABLE COXCOMB. — There is in all ages and at all times a class of young...there is not a class so deservedly to be detested upon ihe face of th earth. He had considerable talents of various kinds, and the possession of those talents... | |
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... command which marked the domestic tyrant, and at the same time Sir Andrew Stalbrooke thought he could perceive a sort of bitter and meaning look which implied something even more. Such was the conduct of the father ; that of the nephew was, to one... 