 | English essays - 1834 - 724 pages
...quietly at eight o'clock with my grandmother. There is another of these tame geniusses, a Mr. Akenside, who writes odes ; in one he has lately published,...rather make ' Gods jostle in the dark, than light their candles for fear they should break their heads.' " Sir Robert Walpole was at this time suffering... | |
 | Mark Akenside - 1835 - 416 pages
...Mann, March 29th, 1745 : " There is another of these tame geniuses, a Mr. Akenside, who writes odes_; in one he has lately published, he says, ' Light the tapers, urge the fire.' Had you not rather make gods jostle in the dark, than light the candles, for fear they should break their... | |
 | Fashion - 740 pages
...another of those tame geniuses, a Mr. Akenside, who writes odes. In one he has lately published ha says ' Light the tapers — urge the fire !' Had not...the candles for fear they should break their heads :" But in criticising the author's " Pleasures of Imagination," he allows that, at its first appearance,... | |
 | Fashion - 1868 - 738 pages
...Horace Walpole, writing in 1750, observes: "Here is another of those tame geniuses, a Mr. Akenside, who writes odes. In one he has lately published he...the candles for fear they should break their heads • " But in criticising the author's " Pleasures of Imagination," he allows that, at its first appearance,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1842 - 596 pages
...quietly at eight o'clock with my grandmother. There is another of these tame geniuses, a Mr. Akenside," who writes Odes : in one he has lately published,...Russel, a mimic, has a puppet-show to ridicule operas; 1 hear, very dull, not to mention its being twenty years too late : it consists of three acts, with... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1842 - 594 pages
...quietly at eight o'clock with my grandmother. There is another of these tame geniuses, a Mr. Akenside," who writes Odes : in one he has lately published,...fear they should break their heads ? One Russel, a mimie, has a puppet-show to ridicule operas ; I hear, very dull, not to mention its being twenty years... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1842 - 592 pages
...quietly at eight o'clock with my grandmother. There is another of these tame geniuses, a Mr. Akenside," who writes Odes : in one he has lately published,...fear they should break their heads ? One Russel, a mimie, has a puppet-show to ridicule operas ; I hear, very dull, not to mention its being twenty years... | |
 | Mark Akenside - Poetry - 1845 - 364 pages
...writes to Sir H. Mann, March 29th, 1745 : " There is another of these tame geniuses, a Mr. Akenside, who writes odes ; in one he has lately published, he says,' Light the tapers, urge th#fire.' Had you not rather make gods jostle in the dark, than light the candles, for fear they should... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1854 - 362 pages
...quietly at eight o'clock with my grandmother. There is another of these tame geniuses, a Mr. Akenside, who writes Odes: in one he has lately published he...the candles for fear they should break their heads ?" • Gray, as every one knows, was Walpole's friend from boyhood. The young men quarrelled upon their... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1854 - 324 pages
...quietly at eight o'clock -with my grandmother. There is another of these tame geniuses, a Mr. Akenside, who writes Odes : in one he has lately published he...the candles for fear they should break their heads ? " * Gray, as every one knows, was Walpole's friend from boyhood. The young men quarrelled upon their... | |
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I had rather have written the most absurd lines in Lee, than Leonidas or the Seasons ; as I had rather be put into the round-house for a wrongheaded quarrel, than sup quietly at eight o'clock with my grandmother. There is another of these tame geniuses,... 
