| Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pàgines
...makes him say, • Nor wine nor love could ever see me gay ; To writing bred, I knew not what to say. There are men whose powers operate only at leisure...merriment confuses, and objection disconcerts ; whose baslifulness restrains their exertion and suffers them pbt to speak till the time of speaking is past;... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pàgines
...hours, he knows not \\\i\, when his hand is out, Life of Milton. There are men whose .powers operate at leisure. and in retirement, and whose intellectual...bashfulness restrains their exertion, and suffers then* not to speak till the time of speaking is past; or whose attention. to their own character makes... | |
| Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pàgines
...say, Nor wine nor love could ever see me gay ; To writing bred, I knew not what to say. There arc m«n whose powers operate only at leisure and in retirement, and whose intellectual vigour desevtsthem in conversation; whom merriment confuses, and objection disconcerts ; whose bash fulness... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 pàgines
...distinction till the Duke of Buckinghamshire gave him a tablet inscribed only with the name of DRYDEN. " There are men whose powers operate only at leisure...objection disconcerts; whose bashfulness restrains their exertions, and suffers them not to speak till the time of speaking is past, or whose attention to their... | |
| Johann Lorenz Mosheim - 1811 - 464 pàgines
...out from little circumstances, such remarks as these, on men and manners. " There arc men, says he, whose powers operate only at leisure, and in retirement,...whose intellectual vigour deserts them in conversation j whom merriment confuses, and objection disconcerts, whose bashfulness restrains their exertion, and... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 560 pàgines
...graphical description given by Johnson, of the inconveniences with which the want of it is attended. " There are men whose powers operate only at leisure...retirement, and whose intellectual vigour deserts * Leibnitz. Op. Tom. VI. p. 72. Edit. Dutens. t Aristotle's definition of aj.^ivo/« turns upon one... | |
| George Crabb - 1816 - 788 pàgines
...violent emotion of mind ; of course it is apt to derange the regular course of our itli-as. BLAIR, There are men whose powers operate only at leisure...vigour deserts them in conversation ; whom merriment confuse?, and objection disconcert», JOHSIO». But with the changeful temper of the »klea. As ralas... | |
| William O'Regan - 1817 - 346 pàgines
...related of Dryden, that in conversation he was sluggish and saturnine, and his biographer remarks, " There are men whose powers operate only at leisure...objection disconcerts, whose bashfulness restrains their exertions, and suffers them not to speak till the time of speaking be past, and whose attention to... | |
| William O'Regan - 1817 - 342 pàgines
...related of Dryden, that in conversation he was sluggish and saturnine, and his biographer remarks, " There are men whose powers operate only at leisure...objection disconcerts, whose bashfulness restrains their exertions, and suffers them not to speak till the time of speaking be past, and whose attention to... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1819 - 644 pàgines
...censurers makes him say, Nor wine nor love could ever see me gay ; To writing bred, I knew not what to say. There are men whose powers operate only at leisure...: whose bashfulness restrains their exertion, and suiters tbera not to speak till the time of speaking is past ; or whose attention to their own character... | |
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