| Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1823 - 402 páginas
...promote the object of the society, which was " to ridicule all the false tastes in learning, under the character of a man of capacity enough ; that had dipped...every art and science, but injudiciously in each." Political animosities, and the absence of some of their members, soon terminated the meetings of the... | |
| david william - 1820 - 564 páginas
...design of the Memoirs of Scriblerus, was to have ridiculed all the false tastes in learning, under the character of a man of capacity enough ; that had dipped into every art and science, but inju. diciously in each. It was begun by a club of some of the greatest wits of the age — Lord Oxford,... | |
| 1893 - 608 páginas
...attain. It was the design of the latter ' to have ridiculed all the false tastes in learning, under the character of a man of capacity enough that had dipped...every art and science, but injudiciously in each.' This idea is carried out too mechanically. Cornelius or Martinus Scriblerus is represented reasoning... | |
| Henry Southern - 1823 - 398 páginas
...in that country. of the society, which was " to ridicule all the false tastes in learning, under the character of a man of capacity enough ; that had dipped...every art and science, but injudiciously in each." Political animosities, and the absence of some of their members, soon terminated the meetings of the... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 606 páginas
...of this work, as stated by Pope himself, is to ridicule all the false tastes in learning, under the character of a man of capacity enough, that had dipped...every art and science, but injudiciously in each. It was begun by a club of some of the greatest wits of the age; Lord Oxford, the Bishop of Rochester,... | |
| 1828 - 402 páginas
...promote the object of the society, -which was " to ridicule all the false tastes in learning, under the character of a man of capacity enough ; that had dipped...every art and science, but injudiciously in each." Political animosities, and the absence of some of their members, soon terminated the meetings of the... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1831 - 384 páginas
...Spence, from the information of Pope, " was to have ridiculed all the false tastes in learning, under the character of a man of capacity enough, that had dipped...every art and science, but injudiciously in each. It was begun by a club of some of the greatest wits of the age : Lord Oxford, the Bishop, of Rochester,... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1824 - 604 páginas
...promote the object of the society, which was "to ridicule all the false tastes in learning, under the character of a man of capacity enough ; that had dipped...every art and science, but injudiciously in each." Political animosities, and the absence of some of their members, soon terminated the meetings of the... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1847 - 566 páginas
...of this work, as stated by Pope himself, is to ridicule all the false tastes in learning, under the character of a man of capacity enough, that had dipped...every art and science, but injudiciously in each. It was begun by a club of some of the greatest wits of the age ; Lord Oxford, the Bishop of Rochester,... | |
| Hugh James Rose - 1848 - 530 páginas
...Scriblerus Club, the object of which was " to ridicule all the false tastes in learning, under the «H.«. 81 character of a man of capacity enough, that had...every art and science, but injudiciously in each." Jn the correspondence between Swift and Pope, Arbuthnot is frequently mentioned as a person destined... | |
| |