 | George Crabb - 1851 - 556 pàgines
...person is said to be disconcerted who suddenly loses his collectedness of thinking ; ' There are roen whose powers operate only at leisure and in retirement...whom merriment confuses, and objection disconcerts.' — JOIINBON. A person is caul to be discomposed who loses his regularity of feeling ; But with the... | |
 | C. Gough - 1853 - 414 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 bashfnhiess restrains their exertion and suffers them not to speak till the time of speaking is past... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 pàgines
...makes him say, " Xor wine nor love could ever see me gay ; To writing bred, I knew not what to Bay." '" 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 - 1854 - 346 pàgines
...made 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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 452 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...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 348 pàgines
...shares in common with some men of the first eminence in literature. " There are men," says Dr Johnson, " whose powers operate only at leisure and in retirement,...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 - 1854 - 454 pàgines
...graphical deseription given by Johnson, of the inconveniences with which the want of it is attended. " There are men whose powers operate only at leisure...conversation ; whom merriment confuses, and objection disconcert* ; whose bashfulness restrains their exertion, and suffers them not to speak till the time... | |
 | John Dryden - 1854 - 324 pàgines
...thing to which I shall pretend.'* Yet although he was one of those men described by Dr. Johnson, ' whose . powers operate only at leisure and in retirement,...intellectual vigour deserts them in conversation,' his scanty words were weighty, and commanded attention. ' Though not so talkative,' says a contemporary,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 450 pàgines
...Johnson, of the inconveniences with which the want of it is attended. "There are men whose powers o]>erate only at leisure and in retirement, and whose intellectual...vigour deserts them in conversation ; whom merriment contuses, and objection disconcerts ; whose bashfulness restrains their exertion, and suffers them... | |
 | George Crabb - 1854 - 546 pàgines
...collecledness of Ibinkine ; ' There are men whose powers opérale only at leisure and in relircmenl ; and whose intellectual vigour deserts them in conversation ; whom merriment confuses, and objection disconcerts.7 — JOHNSON. A person is eaid lo be discomposed who loses his reguJarily of feeling ;... | |
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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... 
