 Lewis was fonder of great people than he ought to have been, either as a man of talent or as a man of fashion. He had always dukes and duchesses in his mouth, and was pathetically fond of any one that had a title. You would have sworn he had been a parvenu...  Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart - Side 12af John Gibson Lockhart - 1839Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 sider
...himself, as Scott says, 'a martinet in the accuracy of rhymes and numbers.' Sir Walter lias recorded that Lewis was f he says, ' dukes and duchesses in his mouth, and was pathetically fond of any one that had a title... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 sider
...he ought to have been, either as a man of talent or as a man of fashion. 'He had always,' he says, ' o lately lost (Turning to thee, divine philosophy,...Ктег at hand to calm his troubled soul), Sailed s swpm he liad been a parvenu of yesterday; yet he had lived all his life in good society.'* Yet Scott... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1845 - 836 sider
...condition of his slaves. He did much good by stealth, and was a most generous creature .... Lc-wis was fonder of great people than he ought to have been,...that had a title. You would have sworn he had been a ttim of yesterday, yet he had lived all his life in good society .... Mat liad queeri»h eyes — they... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1847 - 612 sider
...visit 10 Jamaica 1 IM give the lands of Deloraine Dark Musgrave were alive again ;' " that is, , 1 1 would give many a sugar-cane Monk Lewis were alive...that had a title. You would have sworn he had been a parren« of yesterday, yet he had lived all his life in good society .... Mat had queerish eyes—... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1850 - 868 sider
...fonder of great people than he ought to h»»e btei, either as a man of talent or aa a man of K: VI. fashion. He had always dukes and duchesses in his...was pathetically fond of any one that had a title. Yon would have sworn he had been a fiarrtnu of yesterday, yet he had lived all his life in good society... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1853 - 906 sider
...at Dalkeith—as witness one of Scott's marginal notes, written in 1825, on Lord Byron's Diary :—" Lewis was fonder of great people than he ought to have been, cither as a man of talent or as a man of fashion, He had always dukes and duchesses in his mouth, and... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1858 - 594 sider
...upstart from the uneducated of the middle ranks. Even the good-natured Sir Walter Scott wrote of him, "Lewis was fonder of great people than he ought to...had always dukes and duchesses in his mouth, and was particularly fond of anyone that had a title. You would have sworn he had been born a parvenu of yesterday,... | |
 | Greek - 1859 - 568 sider
...England was a refugium peccaiorum." Reges atque tetrarchas, omnia magna loquens. Lat. HORACE. — " Monk Lewis was fonder of great people than he ought to...fashion. He had always dukes and duchesses in his mouth — reges atque tetrarchas, omnia magna loquens, and was pathetically fond of any one that had a title.... | |
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