| Robert Bisset - 636 pages
...every capacity, 1 expettf'd proportional applause. But miserable was my disappointment ! I was .iiwifed by one cry of reproach, disapprobation, and even detestation ; English, Scotch, and Iiish, Whig and Tory, churchman and secrhrjv freethinker and religionist, patriot and courtier, united... | |
| John Stark (of Edinburgh.) - 1805 - 452 pages
...motion. Of the success of this work he acknowledges his expectations were sanguine. "But" says he, " miserable was my disappointment : I was assailed by...patriot and courtier, united in their rage against tiie man who had presumed to shed a generous tear for the fate of Charles I. and the earl of Strafford... | |
| 1805 - 608 pages
...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...assailed by one cry of reproach, disapprobation, and veven detestation ; English, Scotch, and Irish, Whig and Tory, churchman and sectary, freethinker and... | |
| Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1808 - 430 pages
...capacity, 1 expected proportional applause: but miserable was my disappointment; 1 was assailed by the cry of reproach, disapprobation, and even detestation....freethinker and religionist, patriot and courtier, united in tbeir rage against the man who had presumed to shed the generous tear for the fate of Charles the First,... | |
| 1821 - 676 pages
...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...proportional applause. But miserable was my disappointment. Mr Millar told me that in a twelvemonth he sold only fortyfive copies of it." This was the reception... | |
| 1826 - 622 pages
...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,...free-thinker and religionist, patriot and courtier, united in thcir rage against the man who had presumed to shed a generous tear for the fate of Charles I, and... | |
| 1826 - 590 pages
...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,...Scotch, and Irish, Whig and Tory, churchman and sectary, free-tliinkerandreligionist, patriot and courtier, united in their rage against the man who had presumed... | |
| Francis Wrangham - 1826 - 672 pages
...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,...proportional applause. But miserable was my disappointment ! All classes of men and readers united in their rage against him, who had presumed to shed a generous... | |
| Francis Wrangham - 1826 - 906 pages
...neglected present power, interest, and authority, and the cry of popular prejudices ; and, as the »ubject was suited to every capacity, I expected proportional applause. But miserable was my disappointment !' All classes of mea and readers united in their rage against him, who had presumed to ehed a generous... | |
| Englishmen - 1836 - 260 pages
...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...proportional applause. But miserable was my disappointment: J was assailed by one cry of reproach, disapprobation, and even detestation; English, Scotch, and Irish,... | |
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