 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 476 pages
...preferment ; but that he had a particular way of sinning to himself. To speak in plain English, Tom Brown had less the ' spirit of a gentleman than the ' rest of the wits, and more of a ' scholar. Tom thought himself ' as happy with a retailer of ' damnation in an obscure hole, ' as another to have... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 472 pages
...but that he had a par' ticular way of sinning to him' self. To speak in plain Eng' lish, Tom IJrown had less the ' spirit of a gentleman than the ' rest of the wits, and more of a ' scholar. Tom thought himself ' as happy with a retailer of ' damnation in. ap obscure hole, ' as another tp... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1886 - 492 pages
....sketches of low life are both entertaining and valuable. An anonymous biographer says : ' Tom Brown had less the spirit of a gentleman than the rest of the wits, and more of a scholar. . . . As of his mistresses, so he was very negligent in the choice of his companions, who were sometimes... | |
 | Emily Tennyson Bradley Smith ("Mrs. A. Murray Smith."), Mrs. A. Murray Smith - 1902 - 504 pages
...wag "who laugh 'da race of rascals down," were equally low. It was said of him at the time that he " had less the spirit of a gentleman than the rest of the wits, and more of a scholar." His witty translation of a Latin epigram, which he applied to the famous Dr. Fell, who was about to... | |
 | 1921 - 438 pages
...seven years before the translation appeared, he has a part in more than one volume. And yet Dryden does not refer to him. Mr. Charles Whibley1 says that...attributes to him even the burlesque account of Dryden's funeral.8 He began in 1687 with Supplementary reflections on the Hind and the Panther. In 1688, under... | |
 | 1922 - 1522 pages
...sketches of low life are both entertainmg and valuable. An anonymous biographer says : ' Tom Brown had less the spirit of a gentleman than the rest of the wite, and more of a scholar. . . . As of his mistresses, so he was very negligent in the choice of... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1927 - 536 pages
...in squalid taverns, where he entertained his pothouse friends. ' Tom Brown,' wrote a contemporary, ' had less the spirit of a gentleman than the rest of the wits, and was more of a scholar.' He consorted with men of the lowest reputation, and carried on amours with... | |
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of facetious memory, "2 is said by his anonymous biographer to have had "less the spirit of a gentleman than the rest of the wits, and more of a scholar. 