gripe-visited

Updated: May 5, 2025

There is not an idea in it beyond what might germinate in the brain of a washerwoman. He then proceeds to call the author by such elegant names as 'lickspittle, 'beggarly skittler, jackass, ninny, haberdasher, 'fifty-fifth rate scribbler of gripe-visited sonnets, and 'namby-pamby writer in twaddling albums kept by the mustachioed widows or bony matrons of Portland Place.

George Paston - Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century