 That is to say, five or six men who had writ plays, or at least prologues, or had share in a miscellany, came thither and entertained one another with their trifling composures, in so important an air as if they had been the noblest efforts of human nature...  The St. James's Magazine - Side 31redigeret af - 1762Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1894 - 854 sider
...one another with their trifling composures, in so important an air as if they had been the noblest efforts of human nature, or that the fate of kingdoms depended on them. Here indeed is unwelcome disillusion, and were this, and other passages like it, all, one might throw... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1856 - 596 sider
...one another with their trifling composures, in so important an air as if they had been the noblest efforts of human nature, or that the fate of kingdoms depended on them.' In other words, the conversation at Will's assumed a local, personal, and exclusive character ; whereas... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1856 - 600 sider
...one another with their trifling composures, in so important an air as if they had been the noblest efforts of human nature, or that the fate of kingdoms depended on them." In other words, the conversation at Will's assumed a local, personal, and exclusive character; whereas... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1857 - 432 sider
...one another with their . trifling composures, in so important an air as if they had been the noblest efforts of human nature, or that the fate of kingdoms depended on them ; and they were usually attended with an humble audience of young students from the inns of court, or the universities... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe - 1859 - 686 sider
...one another with their trifling composures, in so important an air as if they had been the noblest efforts of human nature, or that the fate of kingdoms depended on them; and they were usually attended with an humble audience of young students from the inns of court, or thu universities;... | |
 | 1860 - 548 sider
...one another with their Trifling composures in so important an air, as if they had been the noblest efforts of human nature, or that the fate of kingdoms depended on them." In fact, such men — not content with the proper honour given to what our ancestors called : Polite... | |
 | John Timbs - 1862 - 422 sider
...one another with their trifling composures, in so important an air as if they had been the noblest efforts of human nature, or that the fate of kingdoms depended on them." says Swift, " is to advance conversation and friendship, and to reward learning without interest or... | |
 | 1871
...entertained one another with their trifling composures in BO important an air as if they had been the noblest efforts of human nature, or that the fate of kingdoms depended on them.' Now, if such was the style of conversation at Will's coiTee house, where Arbuthnot, and Addison, and... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1872 - 988 sider
...another with their trifling composures, in so important an air as if they had been tl;e noblest cfiorts of human nature, or that the fate of kingdoms depended on them ; and they were usually attended with an humble audience of young students from the inns of court, or the universities;... | |
 | John Timbs - 1872 - 646 sider
...one another with their trifling composures, in so important an air as if they had been the noblest efforts of human nature, or that the fate of kingdoms depended on them. In the first number of the Tatler, Poetry is promised under the article of Will's Coffee-house. The... | |
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