 | Horace Walpole - 1840 - 542 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 (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 536 pages
...yet delight the mob in the boxes as well as in the footman's gallery. I do not mention the tilings 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... | |
 | Author of The young man's own book - English letters - 1841 - 338 pages
...yet delight the mob in the boxes, as well as in the footman's gallery. I do not mention the tilings 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 - Authors, English - 1842 - 590 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... | |
 | D. Appleton and Company - Letter writing - 1854 - 240 pages
...trash, are below Mediocrity, and yet delight the mob in the boxes» H 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 laid he squinted... | |
 | Dr. Doran (John) - Actors - 1865 - 446 pages
...they were no bad judges." It was less fair criticism when Walpole wrote, with reference to Garrick, " I do not mention the things written in his praise ; — because he writes most of them himself." This last charge was also made in a pamphlet, said to have been by Foote. It is there asserted that... | |
 | Dr. Doran (John) - Actors - 1865 - 438 pages
...they were no bud judges." It was less fair criticism when Walpole wrote, with reference to Garrick, " I do not mention the things written in his praise ; — because he writes most of them himself." This last charge was also made in a pamphlet, said to have been by Foote. It is there asserted that... | |
 | John Doran - 1865 - 486 pages
...Williams and Lord Holland thought so too, and they were no bad judges." " I do not mention" he says, " the things written in his praise ; — because he writes most of them himself." This last charge was also made in a pamphlet, said to have been by Foote. It is there asserted that... | |
 | Dr. Doran (John) - Actors - 1888 - 500 pages
...they were no bad judges." It was less fair criticism when Walpole wrote, with reference to Garrick, " I do not mention the things written in his praise ; — because he writes most of them himself." This last charge was also made in a pamphlet, said to have been by Foote. It is there asserted that... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1890 - 334 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.1 But you know any one popular merit can 1 Mrs. Garrick is reported to have said to a friend... | |
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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... 
