 | 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;... | |
 | 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...suffers them not to speak till the time of speaking is past, or whose attention to their own character makes them unwilling to utter at hazard what has... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 494 pàgines
...to say. There are men whose powers operate only ai leisure, and in retirement; and whose intellectua vigour deserts them in conversation; whom merriment...objection disconcerts; whose bashfulness restrains their exertion, and suffers them not to speak till the time of speaking is past; cr whoK attention to tV.e\t... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 452 pàgines
...censurcrs makes him say, Nor wiue 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...objection disconcerts ; whose bashfulness restrains their exertion, and suffers them not to speak till the time of speaking is past; or whose attention to their... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 652 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 bashfuhiess restrains their exertion, and suffers them not to speak till the time of speaking is past... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pàgines
...censurers makes him 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...objection disconcerts: whose bashfulness restrains their exertion, and suffers them not to speak till the time of speaking is past; or whose attention to their... | |
 | 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. •f Aristotle's definition of aj.^ivo(« turns upon... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 486 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...objection disconcerts; whose bashfulness restrains their exertion, and suffers them not to speak till the time of speaking is past; or whose attention to their... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 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...objection disconcerts; whose bashfulness restrains their exertion, and suffers them not to speak till the time of speaking is past; or whose attention to their... | |
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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 exertions, and suffers them not to speak... 
