 | England - 1819 - 792 pages
...trash, are below mediocrity, and yet delight the mob in the boxes, as well as in the footman's gallery. I do not mention the things written in his praise, because he writes most of them himself. But you know any one popular merit can confer all merit. Two women talking of Wilkes, one said he squinted... | |
 | England - 1819 - 782 pages
...trash, are below mediocrity, and yet delight the mob in the boxes, as well as in the footman's gallery. I do not mention the things written in his praise, because he writes most of them himself. But you know any one popular merit can confer all merit. Two •women talking of Wilkes, one said he squinted... | |
 | 1819 - 808 pages
...trash, are below mediocrity, and yet delight the mob in the boxes, as well as in the footman's gallery. I do not mention the things written in his praise, because he writes most of them himself. But you know any one popular merit can confer all merit. Two women talking of VVilkes, one said he squinted... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - Conduct of life - 1827 - 412 pages
...trash, are below mediocrity, and yet delight the mob in the boxes, as well as in the footman's gallery. I do not mention the things written in his praise, because he writes most of them himself. But you' know any one popular merit can confer all merit. Two women talking of Wilkes, one said he squinted... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 410 pages
...trash, are below mediocrity, and yet delight the mob in the boxes, as well as in the footman's gallery. I do not mention the things written in his praise, because he writes most of them himself. But you know any one popular merit can confer all merit. Two women talking of Wilkes, one said he squinted... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 404 pages
...trash, are below mediocrity, and yet delight the mob in the boxes, as well as in the footman's gallery. I do not mention the things written in his praise, because he writes most of them himself. But you know any one popular merit can confer all merit. Two women talking of Wilkes, one said he squinted... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 402 pages
...trash, are below mediocrity, and yet delight the mob in the boxes, as well as in the footman's gallery. I do not mention the things written in his praise, because he writes most of them himself. But you know any one popular merit can confer all merit. Two women talking of Wilkes, one said he squinted... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1836 - 342 pages
...trash, are below mediocrity, and yet delight the mob in the boxes, as well as in the footman's gallery. I do not mention the things written in his praise, because he writes most of them himself. But you know any one popular merit can confer all merit. Two women talking of Wilkes, one said he squinted... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1837 - 508 pages
...trash, are below mediocrity, and yet delight the mob in the boxes as well as in the footman's gallery. I do not mention the things written in his praise, because he writes most of them himself. But you know any one popular merit can confer all merit. Two women talking of Wilkes, one said he squinted—t'other... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1837 - 506 pages
...trash, are below mediocrity, and yet delight the mob in the boxes as well as in the footman's gallery. I do not mention the things written in his praise, because he writes most of them himself. But you know any one popular merit can confer all merit. Two women talking of Wilkes, one said he squinted... | |
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Garrick reckoned a tolerable author, though he has proved how little sense is necessary to form a great actor ! His Cymon, his prologues and epilogues, and forty such pieces of trash, are below mediocrity, and yet delight the mob in the boxes, as well... 
