 Church often say, that his company was very merry, facete, and juvenile; and no man in his time did surpass him for his ready and dexterous interlarding his common discourses among them with verses from the poets, or sentences from classic authors ; which...  The Scottish Review - Seite 501886Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1896 - 902 Seiten
...seems to have been a great favorite among his college contemporaries, his company being, we are told. " very merry, facete, and juvenile, and no man in his...ready and dexterous interlarding his common discourses with verses from the poets and classical authors," a practice, however, which must have made his society... | |
 | Sir Herbert Maxwell - 1896 - 150 Seiten
...the testimony of some of the ' ancients ' of that college, quoted by Anthony a Wood, that Burton's ' company was very merry, facete and juvenile, and no...man in his time did surpass him for his ready and dextrous interlarding his common discourses among them with verses from the poets, or sentences from... | |
 | 1896 - 820 Seiten
...to have been a great favourite among his college contemporaries, his company being, we are told, " very merry, facete, and juvenile, and no man in his time did surpass him for his ready and dextrous interlarding his common discourses with verses from the poets and classical authors," a practice,... | |
 | 1900 - 640 Seiten
...his life. In his early days, he is reported to have been, according to some of Wood's informants, " very merry, facete, and juvenile, and no man in his...University, made his company the more acceptable." There can be no doubt that his failure in obtaining preferment increased the malady to which he may... | |
 | William Younger Fletcher - 1902 - 544 Seiten
...great honesty, plain dealing and charity. I have heard some of the ancients of Christchurch often say that his company was very merry, facete and juvenile;...them with verses from the poets, or sentences from classical authors ; which, being then all the fashion in the university, made his company more acceptable.'... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1906 - 902 Seiten
...great honesty, plain dealing and charity. I have heard some of the antients of Christ Church often say that his company was very merry, facete and juvenile, and no man of his time did surpass him for his ready and dexterous interlarding his common discourse among them... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1906 - 894 Seiten
...great honesty, plain dealing and charity. I have heard some of the antients of Christ Church often say that his company was very merry, facete and juvenile, and no man of his time did surpass him for his ready and dexterous interlarding his common discourse among them... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1909 - 628 Seiten
...his contemporaries is one of degree: No man in bis time did surpass him for his ready and dextrous interlarding his common discourses among them with verses from the poets, or sentences from classical authors. Which being then all the fashion in the university made his company more acceptable2.... | |
 | Leslie Stephen, Sir Sidney Lee - 1908 - 1410 Seiten
...antients of Christ Church often say that his company was very merry, facete and juvenile, and no man of his time did surpass him for his ready and dexterous...them with verses from the poets or sentences from classical authors.' Burton died at Christ Church on 25 Jan. 16.39-40, at or very near the time that... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1909 - 598 Seiten
...contemporaries is one of degree: No man in his time did surpass him for his ready and dextrous interlarding1 his common discourses among them with verses from the poets, or sentences from classical authors. Which being then all the fashion in the university made his company more acceptable2.... | |
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