 | Henry James Nicoll - 1886 - 478 pages
...had at once neglected present power, interest, and authority, and the cry of popular prejudices; and as the subject was suited to every capacity, I expected...was my disappointment : I was assailed by one cry ol reproach, disapprobation, and even detestation ; English, Scotch, and Irish, Whig and Tory, churchman... | |
 | William Angus Knight - 1886 - 264 pages
...His first volume was no success, however, in his own estimation. " I was assailed," he tells us,2 " by one cry of reproach, disapprobation, and even detestation...Whig and Tory, Churchman and Sectary, Freethinker and Eeligionist, Patriot and Courtier, united in their rage against the man who had presumed to shed a... | |
 | Clarence Howard Clark - 1888 - 622 pages
...fate The first Vulume of his History (James I. and Charles I.) was published in 1754, and the Author was " assailed by one cry of reproach, disapprobation,...Scotch, and Irish, Whig and Tory, Churchman and Sectary, Free" thinker and Religionist, Patriot and Courtier, united in their rage against the Au" thor, . .... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - 1889 - 636 pages
...had at once neglected present power, interest. and authority, and the cry of popular prejudices; and as the subject was suited to every capacity, I expected...patriot and courtier, united in their rage against the man who had presumed to shed a generous tear for the fate of Charles I. and the Earl of Strafford."... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1889 - 462 pages
...i_7jj4. To his great chagrin this famous work failed to please any class of readers. He tells us : "I was assailed by one cry of reproach, disapprobation, and even detestation. ... I scarcely heard of one man in the three kingdoms, considerable for rank or letters, that could... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1889 - 454 pages
...in 1754. To his great chagrin this famous work failed to please any class of readers. He tells us: "I was assailed by one cry of reproach, disapprobation, and even detestation. ... I scarcely heard of one man in the three kingdoms, considerable for rank or letters, that could... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1889 - 440 pages
...in 1754. To his great chagrin this famous work failed to please any class of readers. He tells us : "I was assailed by one cry of reproach, disapprobation, and even detestation. ... I scarcely heard of one man in the three kingdoms, considerable for rank or letters, that could... | |
 | David Hume - 1889 - 530 pages
...had at once neglected present power, interest, and authority, and the cry of popular prejudices ; and as the subject was suited to every capacity, I expected proportional applause. But-miserable waamy__diaaitpointment: I was assailed by one cry of reproach, disapprobation, and even... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1891 - 440 pages
...in 1754. To his great chagrin this famous work failed to please any class of readers. He tells us : "I was assailed by one cry of reproach, disapprobation, and even detestation. ... I scarcely heard of one man in the three kingdoms, considerable for rank or letters, that could... | |
 | Edmund William Gosse - 1891 - 462 pages
...in 1754. To his great chagrin this famous work failed to please any class of readers. He tells us : "I was assailed by one cry of reproach, disapprobation, and even detestation. ... I scarcely heard of one man in the three kingdoms, considerable for rank or letters, that could... | |
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I was the only historian that had at once neglected present power, interest, and authority, and the cry of popular prejudices; and as the subject was suited to every capacity, I expected proportional applause. But miserable was my disappointment: I was... 
