 | James Boswell - 1799 - عدد الصفحات: 640
...1 Brit. Mus. 4320, Ayscough's Catal., Sloane MSS. BOSWELL. — Horace Walpole describes Birch as ' a worthy, good-natured soul, full of industry and...running about like a young setting-dog in quest of anything, new or old, and with no parts, taste, or judgment.' Walpole's Letters, vii. 326. See/w/,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - عدد الصفحات: 648
...' Brit. Mus. 4320, Ayscough's Catal., Sloane MSS. BOSWELL. — Horace Walpole describes Birch as ' a worthy, good-natured soul, full of industry and...running about like a young setting-dog in quest of anything, new or old, and with no parts, taste, or judgment.' Walpole's Letters, vii. 326. See post,... | |
 | John Nichols - 1815 - عدد الصفحات: 866
...Second Volume of the " Biographia Britannica j" in which the noble Critic characterizes Dr. Birch, as " a worthy good-natured soul, full of industry and activity,...new or old; and with no parts, taste, or judgment." Mr. Walpole calls Dr. Blackwell " the most impertinent literary coxcomb upon earth ; but," says he,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 596
...authors, who have been installed there with much respect, may have been as trifling personages as those we have known and now behold consecrated to memory....industry and activity, and running about like a young setting dog in quest of any thing, new or old, and with no parts, taste, or judgment. Then there is... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - عدد الصفحات: 412
...authors, who have been installed there with much respect, may have been as trifling personages as those we have known, and now behold consecrated to memory....struck me particularly, as Dr. Birch, who was a worthy good natured soul, full of industry and activity, and running about, like a young setting dog, in quest... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - عدد الصفحات: 404
...authors, who have been installed there with much respect, may have been as trifling personages as those we have known, and now behold consecrated to memory....struck me particularly, as Dr. Birch, who was a worthy good natured soul, full of industry and activity, and running about, like a young setting dog, in quest... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - عدد الصفحات: 410
...authors, who have been installed there with much respect, may have been as trifling personages as those we have known, and now behold consecrated to memory....struck me particularly, as Dr. Birch, who was a worthy good natured soul, full of industry and activity, and running about, like a young setting dog, in quest... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - عدد الصفحات: 402
...authors, who have been installed there with much respect, may have been as trifling personages as those we have known, and now behold consecrated to memory....struck me particularly, as Dr. Birch, who was a worthy good natured soul, full of industry and activity, and running about, like a young setting dog, in quest... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 508
...authors, who have been installed there with much respect, may have been as trifling personages as those we have known, and now behold consecrated to memory....or four have struck me particularly, as Dr. Birch, 1 who was a worthy, good-natured soul, full of industry and activity, and running about like a young... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 506
...authors, who have been installed there with much respect, may have been as trifling personages as those we have known, and now behold consecrated to memory....Three or four have struck me particularly, as Dr. Birch,1 who was a worthy, good-natured soul, full of industry and activity, and running about like... | |
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Fame has made me smile, and reflect that many preceding authors, who have been installed there with much respect, may have been as trifling personages as those we have known and now behold consecrated to memory. Three or four have struck me particularly,... 
