 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pages
...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 - 648 pages
...' 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 - 866 pages
...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 - 596 pages
...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...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... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 404 pages
...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, who was a worthy good natured soul, full of industry and activity, and running about, like a young setting dog, in quest... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 412 pages
...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, 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 - 402 pages
...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, 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 - 410 pages
...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, 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 - 508 pages
...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 a young... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1837 - 506 pages
...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,... 
