 His Brother was then Master of Trinity College; like all Wordsworths (unless the drowned Sailor) pompous and priggish. He used to drawl out the Chapel responses so that we called him the "Meeserable Sinner" and his brother the "Meeserable Poet." Poor...  The Literary World - Page 1801894Full view - About this book
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1889 - 534 pages
...the Chapel responses so that we called him the 'Meeserable Sinner' and his brother the ' Meeserable Poet.' Poor fun enough : but I never can forgive the...cantankerous narrow-minded Bigot as John Knox in his stead. I did • go to worship at Abbotsford, as to Stratford on Avon : and saw that it was good to have so... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1889 - 528 pages
...the Chapel responses so that we called him the 'Meeserable Sinner' and his brother the ' Meeserable Poet.' Poor fun enough : but I never can forgive the...cantankerous narrow-minded Bigot as John Knox in his stead. ; I did go to worship at Abbotsford, as to Stratford on Avon : and saw that it was good to have so... | |
 | Edward Fitzgerald - 1894 - 376 pages
...the Chapel responses so that we called him the ' Meeserable Sinner ' and his brother the ' Meeserable Poet.' Poor fun enough : but I never can forgive the l^akers all who first despised, and then patroni/.ed ' Walter Scott,' as they loftily called him : and He, dear, noble, Fellow, thought they... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1903 - 888 pages
...the Chapel responses so that we called him the ' Meeserable Sinner ' and his brother the ' Meeserable ut they could a' link out their fifty pounds ower head to bigg a holtle patronised, ' Walter Scott,' as they loftily called him : and He, dear, noble Fellow, thought they... | |
 | William James Dawson, Coningsby Dawson - 1908 - 312 pages
...the Chapel responses so that we called him the "Meeserable Sinner" and his brother the "Meeserable Poet." Poor fun enough; but I never can forgive the Lakers all who first despised, and then patronised " Walter Scott," as they loftily called him: and He, dear, noble, Fellow, thought they were... | |
 | William Leonard Courtney - 1909 - 406 pages
...Poet." Poor fun enough ; but I never can forgive the Lakers who first despised, and then patronised, " Walter Scott," as they loftily called him ; and he,...cantankerous, narrow-minded bigot as John Knox in his stead. I did go to worship at Abbot°ford, as to Stratford-on-Avon ; and saw that it was good to have so done.... | |
 | Byron Johnson Rees - 1919 - 580 pages
...the Chapel responses so that we called him the "Meeserable Sinner" and his brother the "Meeserable Poet." Poor fun enough: but I never can forgive the...cantankerous narrow-minded Bigot as John Knox in his stead. I did go to worship at Abbotsford, as to Stratford on Avon: and saw that it was good to have so done.... | |
 | Byron Johnson Rees - 1919 - 586 pages
...the Chapel responses so that we called him the "Meeserable Sinner" and his brother the "Meeserable Poet." Poor fun enough : but I never can forgive the...Well, your Emerson has done him far more Justice than nis own Countryman Carlyle, who won't allow him to be a Hero in any way, but sets up such a cantankerous... | |
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