 | 1827 - 790 pages
...employs his fancy in his narratives, and keeps his recollections for his wit — when he makes his jokes you applaud the accuracy of his memory, and 'tis only when he states liis facts, that you admire the flights of his imagination. " " Lady Clio. ' What am I reading ? '... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1825 - 586 pages
...employs his fancy in his narratives, and keeps his recollections for his wit — when he makes his jokes you applaud the accuracy of his memory, and 'tis only...facts, that you admire the flights of his imagination. * " A fat woman trundling into a room on castors — in sitting can only lean against her chair —... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1825 - 462 pages
...employs his fancy in his narratives, and keeps his recollections for his wit—when he makes his jokes, you applaud the accuracy of his memory, and 'tis only..., that you admire the flights of his imagination.* "A fat woman trundling into a room on castors—in sitting can only lean against her chair—rings... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Dramatists - 1825 - 654 pages
...eyes up and down like Venetian blinds" — "Her eyelids pi»y like a Venetian blind," &c. &c. r..iry, and 'tis only when he states his facts, that you admire the flights of his imagination.* " A fat woman trundling into a room on castors — in sitting can only lean against her chair — rings... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Dramatists, English - 1826 - 570 pages
...his fancy in his narratives, and keeps his recollection for his wit : — when he makes his jokes, you applaud the accuracy of his memory, and 'tis only...facts that you admire the flights of his imagination." After many efforts to express this thought more concisely, and to reduce the language of it to that... | |
 | Phrenology - 1826 - 792 pages
...employs his fancy in his narratives, and keeps his ' recollection for his wit. When he makes his jokes, you applaud ' the accuracy of his memory, and 'tis...facts, that you admire the flights of his imagination." After " many efforts to express this thought more concisely, and to " reduce the language of it to... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 868 pages
...employs his fancy in his narratives, and keeps his recollection for his wit:—when he makes his jokes, you applaud the accuracy of his memory, and 'tis only...facts that you admire the flights of his imagination.' After many efforts to express this thought more concisely, and to reduce the language of it to that... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1832 - 520 pages
...his fancy in his narratives, and keeps his recollection for his wit : — when he makes his jokes, you applaud the accuracy of his memory, and 'tis only...facts that you admire the flights of his imagination." After many efforts to express this thought more concisely, and to reduce the language of it to that... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Anecdotes - 1832 - 846 pages
...his fancy in his narratives, and keeps his recollection for his wit : — when he makes his jokes, you applaud the accuracy of his memory, and 'tis only when he states his facts th; admire the flights of his imagination.' After many efforts to express this thought more conciscl'.... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1835 - 504 pages
...for his wit — when he makes his jokes , you applaud the accuracy of his memory, and 'tis only whea he states his facts, that you admire the flights of his imagination '. "A fat woman trundling into a room on castors — in sitting can only lean against her chair—... | |
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He certainly has a great deal of fancy and a very good memory ; but with a perverse ingenuity he employs these qualities as no other person does ; for he employs his fancy in his narratives, and keeps his... 
