 | John Dryden - 1871 - 368 pages
...persons themselves who received them ; though his hereditary means was little more than a bare competency He was of very easy, I may say of very pleasing access,...that abhorred intrusion into any society whatsoever. . . . To the best of my knowledge and observation he was of all the men that ever I knew one of the... | |
 | William Clark Russell - Authors, English - 1871 - 550 pages
...it, went beyond his profession. ... He was of a very easy, of a very pleasing access ; but somewhat slow and, as it were, diffident in his advances to others ; he had that in nature which abhorred intrusion. — Congrtve. A monster of immodesty and of impurity of all... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 376 pages
...persons themselves who received them ; though his hereditary means was little more than a bare competency He was of very easy, I may say of very pleasing access,...that abhorred intrusion into any society whatsoever. . . .To the best of my knowledge and observation he was of all the men that ever I knew one of the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 388 pages
...persons themselves who received them ; though his hereditary means was little more than a bare competency He was of very easy, I may say of very pleasing access,...that abhorred intrusion into any society whatsoever. . . .To the best of my knowledge and observation he was of all the men that ever I knew one of the... | |
 | Public school series - 1874 - 408 pages
...professed it, went beyond his profession. He was of a very easy, of very pleasing access ; but somewhat slow, and, as it were, diffident in his advances to others : he had that in nature which abhorred intrusion into any society whatever. He was therefore less known, and... | |
 | John Dryden - 1878 - 368 pages
...persons themselves who received them; though his hereditary means was little more than a bare competency He was of very easy, I may say of very pleasing access,...that abhorred intrusion into any society whatsoever. . . .To the best of my knowledge and observation he was of all the men that ever I knew one of the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 pages
...professed it, went beyond his professions. He was of a very easy, of very pleasing access ; but somewhat slow, and, as it were, diffident in his advances to others : he had that in his nature which abhorred intrusion into any society whatever. He was therefore less known,... | |
 | David Masson - 1880 - 880 pages
...diffident in that respect, and always did himself injustice in company by a certain shyness and slowness. "He had something in his nature that abhorred intrusion into any society whatsoever," Congreve was to say of him from much later acquaintance ; and it was true of him from the first. All... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1882 - 480 pages
...and full as ready and patient to admit of the reprehension of others, in respect of his own oversight or mistakes. He was of very easy, I may say, of very...Indeed, it is to be regretted, that he was rather blameable in the other extreme ; for, by that means, he was personally less known, and, consequently,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1882 - 526 pages
...and full as ready and patient to admit of the reprehension of others, in respect of his own oversight or mistakes. He was of very easy, I may say, of very...Indeed, it is to be regretted, that he was rather blamable in the other extreme; for, by that means, he was personally less known, and, consequently,... | |
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He was of very easy, I may say, of very pleasing access ; but something slow, and, as it were, diffident in his advances to others. He had something in his nature, that abhorred intrusion into any society whatsoever. 
