 | 1907 - 584 pages
...years and now is about, about Guardenage ; which will be a most noble and pleasant piece. He read me part of a play or two of his making, very good, but not as he conceits them, I think, to be. ... In fine, a most excellent person he is, and must be allowed a little for a little conceitedness... | |
 | 1825 - 724 pages
...part of a play or two of his making, very good, but not as he conceits them, I think to be. He shewed me his Hortus Hyemalis ; leaves laid up in a book...colour, however, and look very finely, better than an herball. In 6ne, a most excellent person he is, and must be allowed a little for a little conceitedness... | |
 | 1825 - 726 pages
...years and now is about, about Gardening ; which will be a most noble and pleasant piece. He read in part of a play or two of his making, very good, but not as he conceits them, I think to be. He shewed me his Hortus Hyemalis ; leaves laid up in a book of several plants kept dry, which preserve... | |
 | 1825 - 710 pages
...years and now is about, about Gardening ; which will be a most noble and pleasant piece. He read in part of a play or two of his making, very good, but not as be conceits them, I think to be. He shewed me his Hortus Hyemalis ; leaves laid up in a book of several... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1896 - 600 pages
...been many years and now is about, about Gardenage, which will be a most noble and pleasant piece, also part of a play or two of his making, very good, but not as he conceits them, I think, to be. He also read me, though with too much gusto, some little poems of his own that were not transcendent,... | |
 | 1850 - 638 pages
...call to mind, in which he describes Evelyn reading him parts of a play or two of his own writing, " very good, but not as he conceits them, I think, to be," which we have no doubt hits off those perished plays exactly. There is another passage where he tolla... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 790 pages
...about Gardenage ; which is a most noble and pleasant piece. He read me part of a play or two of his own making, — very good, but not as he conceits them,...colour, however, and look very finely, better than an herbal). In fine a most excellent person he is, — and must be allowed a little for a little conceitedness;... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 788 pages
...and pleasant piece. He read me part of a play or two of his own making, — very good, but not as fie conceits them, I think, to be. He showed me his Hortus...colour, however, and look very finely, better than an herball. In fine a most excellent person he is, — and must be allowed a little for a little conceitedness... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1848 - 466 pages
...years and now is about, about Gardenage; which will be a most noble and pleasant piece. He read me part of a play or two of his making, very good, but...colour, however, and look very finely, better than an Herball. In fine, a most excellent person he is, and must be allowed a little for a little conceitedness;... | |
 | 1852 - 782 pages
...me part of a play or two of In* own making — very goad, but not as he conceili them, I think, то be. He showed me his Hortus Hyemalis ; leaves laid...colour, however, and look very finely, better than an herball. In fine a most excellent person he is, — and muni be allowed a little for a little conceitednest... | |
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He read me part of a play or two of his making, very good, but not as he conceits them, I think, to be. 
