Mscenases, who patronise poets and philosophers, from the association with whom they expect to derive distinction. For gentle dulness they have a peculiar predilection — from sympathy, I suppose ; a fellow-feeling being said to make men wondrous kind.... The victims of society - Seite 164von Marguerite Gardiner (countess of Blessington.) - 1837Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1837 - 224 Seiten
...ostentatious hospitalities, those that form the aristocracy of genius ; for they imagine themselves modern Maecenases, who patronise poets and philosophers,...pretensions to literary taste have their tame poets and petit '.? litterateurs, who run about as docile, and more parasitical, than lapdogs ; and, like... | |
| 1837 - 656 Seiten
...hospitalities, those that form the aristocracy of genius ; for they imagine themselves modern Mscenases, who patronise poets and philosophers, from the association...pretensions to literary taste have their tame poets and petits litterateurs, who run about as docile, and more parasitical, than lap-dogs; and, like them,... | |
| r.r. madden, m.r.i.a. - 1855 - 546 Seiten
...who patronize poets and philosophers, from association with whom, they expect to derive distinction A few of the houses, with the most pretensions to literary taste, have their tame poets and petits litterateurs, who run about as docile and more parasitical than lap-dogs ; and like them,... | |
| Richard Robert Madden - 1855 - 550 Seiten
...who patronize poets and philosophers, from association with whom, they expect to derive distinction A few of the houses, with the most pretensions to literary taste, have their tame poets and petits litterateurs, who run about as docile and more parasitical than lap-dogs ; and like them,... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1855 - 922 Seiten
...from association with whom they expect to derive distinction, her ladyship candidly writes : — ' A few of the houses, with the most pretensions to literary taste, have their tame poets nndpeti/s litterateurs, who run about as docile and more parasitical than lap-dogs ; and like them,... | |
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