 | William Cowper - 1803 - 482 pages
...may apply to him the lively compliment of Waller to Denham, and say, with superior truth, " He burst out like the Irish Rebellion, threescore thousand...when nobody was aware, or in the least suspected it." /he second division may conclude with the publication of his Homer; comprising the incidents 'of ten... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...given him. his • first hold of the public attention ; for Waller remarked, " that he broke put, " like the Irish rebellion, threescore thousand strong...nobody was. aware, " or in the least suspected it :" an observation which could have had no propriety, had his poetical abilities been known before.... | |
 | William Hayley - 1805 - 228 pages
...Waller to Denham, and say, with superior truth, " He burst out like the Irish rebellion, three score thousand strong, when nobody was aware, or in the least suspected it." The second division may conclude with the publication of his Homer ; comprizing the incidents of ten splendid... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 490 pages
...apply to him the lively compliment of Waller to Denham, and say, with superior truth — " He burst out like the Irish rebellion, " three-score thousand...nobody was " aware, or in the least suspected it " The second division may conclude with the publication of his Homer ; comprising the incidents of ten splendid... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 pages
...his first hold of the publick attention ; for Waller remarked, " that he " broke out like the 'Iri.h rebellion, threescore " thousand strong, when nobody was aware, or " in the least suspected it ;" an observation which could have had no propriety, had his poetical abilities been known before.... | |
 | Sir John Carr - 1806 - 322 pages
...their engagements were remarkable ; that poet, when the Sophy appeared, said of the author, " That he broke out like the " Irish rebellion, three-score thousand strong, when nobody " in the least expected it." In no country in the world is treachery held more in detestation than... | |
 | William Cowper - 1809 - 486 pages
...apply to him the lively compliment of Waller to Denham, and say, with superior truth — " He burst out like the Irish rebellion, " three-score thousand...nobody was " aware, or in the least suspected it." The second division may conclude with the publication of his Homer ; comprising the incidents of ten splendid... | |
 | 1809 - 890 pages
...when, "to use the words of Waller, respecting his dontegiporary Denham, he broke out, like tlie Irisii Rebellion, three-score thousand strong, when nobody was aware, or in the least su*j;ectcd it."' bo first Speech iu I arliameut ever produced surli an effect, or acquired such eulogies,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 544 pages
...effort at parliamentary eloquence was made Nov. 13, 1755, when, to use the words of Waller respecting Denham, " he broke out, like the Irish rebellion,...when nobody was aware, or in the least suspected it." Certainly no first speech In parliameu^ ever produced such an effect, or acquired such eulogies, both... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1813 - 544 pages
...which was so much admired by Waller that he took occasion from this piece to say of the author, that " he broke out like the Irish rebellion, threescore...when nobody was aware, or in the least suspected it." Soon after he was pricked high sheriff of Surry, and made governor of Farnham-castle for the king;... | |
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This seems to have given him his first hold of the public attention ; for Waller remarked, "that he broke out like the Irish rebellion, threescore thousand strong, when nobody was aware, or in the least suspected it ;" an observation which could have... 
