 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 דפים
...• 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 and in retirement,...intellectual vigour deserts them in conversation; whom merriment confuses, and objection disconcerts ; whose baslifulness restrains their exertion and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 דפים
...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 vigour deserts them in conversation; whom merriment confuses, and objection disconcerts; whose bashfulness restrains their exertion, and... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 דפים
...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 דפים
...the Duke of Buckinghamshire gave him a tablet inscribed only with the name of DRYDEN. " There are men whose powers operate only at leisure and in retirement,...intellectual vigour deserts them in conversation; whom merriment confuses, and objection disconcerts; whose bashfulness restrains their exertions, and... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 דפים
...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 and in retirement,...intellectual vigour deserts them in conversation; whom merriment confuses, and objection disconcerts : whose bashfulness restrains their exertion, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 דפים
...say, Nor wine nor love could ever see me gay ; To writing bred, 1 knew not what to say. There are men whose powers operate only at leisure and in retirement,...whose intellectual vigour deserts them in conversation ; whom merriment confuses, and objection disconcerts : whose bashfulness restrains their exertion,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 560 דפים
...description given by Johnson, of the inconveniences with which the want of it is attended. " There are men whose powers operate only at leisure and in 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 דפים
...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 and in retirement...whose Intellectual vigour deserts them in conversation ; whom merriment confuse?, and objection disconcert», JOHSIO». But with the changeful temper of the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 486 דפים
...frankness. 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 and in retirement,...whose intellectual vigour deserts them in conversation ; whom merriment confuses, and objection disconcerts ; whose bashfulness restrains their exertion,... | |
 | William O'Regan - 1817 - 342 דפים
...Dryden, that in conversation he was sluggish and saturnine, and his biographer remarks, " There are men whose powers operate only at leisure and in retirement,...intellectual vigour deserts them in conversation, whom merriment confuses and objection disconcerts, whose bashfulness restrains their exertions, and... | |
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There are men whose powers operate only at leisure and in retirement, and whose intellectual vigour deserts them in conversation ; whom merriment confuses, and objection disconcerts : whose bashfulness restrains their exertion, and suffers them not to... 
