 At present, nothing is talked of, nothing admired, but what I cannot help calling a very insipid and tedious performance : it is a kind of novel, called " The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy ;" the great humour of which consists in the whole narration...  The Ladies' Companion - Page 1021865Full view - About this book
 | Fashion - 740 pages
...pamphlet accounts of the court-martial of Lord George Sackville for disobedience of orders at Mindetl, and the trial of the Methodist Lady Huntingdon's nephew,...of Shandy : — " At present nothing is talked of, j nothing admired, but what I cannot help calling ' a very insipid and tedious performance ; it is... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1840 - 540 pages
...less brilliant when he tried those subjects ; and, to say the truth, one is a little weary of them. At present, nothing is talked of, nothing admired, but what I cannot help calling a very insipid and tedious performance : it is a kind of novel, called " The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 548 pages
...less brilliant when he tried those subjects ; and, to say the truth, one is a little weary of them. At present, nothing is talked of, nothing admired, but what I cannot help calling a very insipid and tedious performance : it is a kind of novel, called " The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy;"... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1842 - 580 pages
...less brilliant when he tried those subjects ; and, to say the truth, one is a little weary of them. At present, nothing is talked of, nothing admired, but what I cannot help calling a very insipid and tedious performance: it is a kind of novel, called "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy;"... | |
 | Literature - 1865 - 740 pages
...published by Dodsley in the style of Goldsmith's " Enquiry," price five shillings, was as immediate ami complete in London as among the Jriends and acquaintances...admired, but what I cannot help calling a very insipid and tedious' performance | it is a kind of novel, called " The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy."... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1854 - 324 pages
...a little humble in forming our own opinions. Let us hear what Walpole has to say of Sterne : — " At present, nothing is talked of, nothing admired, but what I cannot help calling a very insipid and tedious performance : it is a kind of novel, called ' The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1854 - 362 pages
...be a little humble in forming our own opinions. Let us hear what Walpole has to say of Sterno :—" At present, nothing is talked of, nothing admired, but what I cannot help calling a very insipid and tedious performance : it is a kind of novel, called ' The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy... | |
 | American literature - 1854 - 604 pages
...Tristram Shandy were published, and had a signal success. "At present," wrote Horace Walpole in April, " nothing is talked of, nothing admired, but what I cannot help calling a very insipid and tedious performance ; it is a kind of novel, called ' The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy,'... | |
 | 1863 - 744 pages
...removed from town-talk as Sir H. Mann was at Florence. " At present," he writes on the fourth of April, " nothing is talked of, nothing admired, but what I cannot help calling a very insipid and tedious performance ;'' whose chief merit, he says, consists in "going backwards." It made him... | |
 | George Herbert - 1863 - 732 pages
...removed from town-talk ;uj Sir II. Mann was at Florence. " At present," he writes on the fourth of April, "nothing is talked of, nothing admired, but what I cannot help calling a very insipid dtul feiUniis jierf on/in nee ;" whose chief merit, he says, consists in " going backwards." It made... | |
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