 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...the characters have a great deal of nature, which always pleases even in her lowest shapes. Parson Adams is perfectly well ; so is Mrs. Slipslop, and...shrewdly suspect their insipidity and want of feeling or observation) may make them insensible to these light things, (I mean such as characterize and paint... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 320 pages
...the characters have a great deal of nature, which always pleases even in her lowest shapes. Parson Adams is perfectly well; so is Mrs. Slipslop, and the story of Wilson ; and throughout he shows himself well read in stage-coaches, country squires, inns, and inns of court. His reflections... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 618 pages
...the characters have a great deal of nature, which always pleases even in her lowest shapes. Parson Adams is perfectly well ; so is Mrs. Slipslop, and...shews himself well read in Stage-Coaches, Country 126 Squires, Inns, and Inns of Court. His reflections upon high people and low people, and misses and... | |
 | 1821 - 394 pages
...the characters have a great deal of nature, which always pleases even in her lowest shapes. Parson Adams is perfectly well ; so is Mrs. Slipslop, and the story of Wilson; and throughout he shows himself well read in stage-coaches, country 'squires, inns, and inns of court. His reflections... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1820 - 548 pages
...the characters have a great deal of nature, which always pleases even in her lowest shapes. Parson Adams is perfectly well ; so is Mrs. Slipslop, and...shrewdly suspect their insipidity and want of feeling or observation) may make them insensible to these light things, (I mean such as characterize and paint... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1820 - 492 pages
...the characters have a great deal of nature, which always pleases even in her lowest shapes. Parson Adams is perfectly well; so is Mrs. Slipslop, and the story of Wilson; and throughout he shows himself well read in stage-coaches, country 'squires, inns, and inns of court. His reflections... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1827 - 468 pages
...the characters have a great deal of nature, which always pleases even in her lowest shapes. Parson Adams is perfectly well ; so is Mrs. Slipslop, and...Wilson ; and throughout he shews himself well read in stage- coaches, country squires, inns, and inns^pf court. His reflections upon high people and low... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1835 - 342 pages
...the characters have a great deal of nature, which always pleases even in her lowest shapes. Parson Adams is perfectly well ; so is Mrs. Slipslop, and...shrewdly suspect their insipidity and want of feeling or observation) may make them insensible to these light things, (I mean such as characterize and paint... | |
 | People's and Howitt's journal - 938 pages
...composition. The poet Gray, referring to Fielding's Joseph Andrews, maintains, in a letter to West, that, however "the exaltedness of some minds, (or rather,...shrewdly suspect, their insipidity and want of feeling or observation) may make tlicin insensible to these light things (I mean Mich as characterise and paint... | |
 | 1855 - 172 pages
...much which in society is wearying and commonplace as well as to that which is intrinsically winning. ' However the exaltedness of some minds, or rather,...shrewdly suspect, their insipidity and want of feeling or observation, may make them insensible to these light things, I mean such as characterise and paint... | |
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Wilson ; and throughout he shews himself well read in Stage-Coaches, Country Squires, Inns, and Inns of Court. His reflections upon high people and low people, and misses and masters, are very good. 
