 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 pàgines
...Dryden are amongst them), whom Johnson has so admirably described in the following passage : — " 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... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 606 pàgines
...Dryden are amongst them), whom Johnson has so admirably described in the following passage : — " There are men whose powers operate only at leisure...disconcerts ; whose ' bashfulness restrains their exertion, and suffers them not to speak till the time of speaking is past ; or whose attention to their... | |
 | Lives - 1833 - 588 pàgines
...Dryden are amongst them), whom Johnson has so admirably described in the following passage : — " There are men whose powers operate only at leisure...whom merriment confuses, and objection disconcerts ; w hosi; bashfulness restrains their exertion, and suffers them not to speak till the time of speaking... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pàgines
...cenBurers makes him say, Nor wino nor love could ever see me gay ; To writing bred, I knew not what to say. entering the house. " This," said Dryden, " is exertion, and "> suffers them not to speak till the time of speaking i» past; or whose attention to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1838 - 716 pàgines
...cenmrers makes him say, Nor wine nor love could ever Bee me gay ; To writing bred, I knew not what lo say. There are men whose powers operate only at leisure...merriment confuses, and objection disconcerts : whose bashfulncss restrains their exertion, and suffers them not to speak till the time of speaking is past;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 pàgines
...makes him say, ' Nor wine nor love could ever see me gay; To writing bred, 1 kntw 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 - 1840 - 742 pàgines
...makes him say, If or wine nor love could ever see me рту ; To writing bred, I knew not what to say. viçour deserts them in conversation ; whom merriment confuses, and objection disconcerts : whose bashfulness... | |
 | John Wilson - 1844 - 142 pàgines
...trace in history's page the even course of milder eloquence. — There are men whose powers operate in leisure and in retirement, and whose intellectual...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... | |
 | John Graham (compositor.) - 1848 - 94 pàgines
...resolv'd, and hands prepar'd, The blessings they enjoy to guard. There are men whose powers operate at leisure and in retirement, and whose intellectual...suffers them not to speak till the time of speaking is past ; or whose attention to thcir own character makes them unwilling to utter, at hazard, what... | |
 | George Crabb - 1850 - 554 pàgines
...ideas.'— BLAIR. A person is eaid to be disconcerted who suddenly loses his collectedness of thinking ; ' There are men whose powers operate only at leisure and in retirement ; and whose intellectua vigour deserts them in conversation ; whom merriment confuses, and objection disconcerts.'... | |
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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... 
