 | John Wilson - 1855 - 360 pàgines
...inherit. There are men whose powers operate in leisure and in retirement, and whose intellectual vigor deserts them in conversation ; whom merriment confuses,...objection disconcerts; whose bashfulness restrains their exertion, and suffers them not to speak till the tune of speaking is past ; or whose attention to their... | |
 | John Wilson - 1856 - 360 pàgines
...inherit. There are men whose powers operate in leisure and in retirement, and whose intellectual vigor deserts them in conversation ; whom merriment confuses,...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 Wilson - 1856 - 188 pàgines
...inherit. There are men whose powers operate in leisure and in retirement, and whose intellectual vigor deserts them in conversation ; whom merriment confuses,...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... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - 1857 - 470 pàgines
...sentence: " There are men whose powers operate in leisure and in retirement, and whose intellectual vigor deserts them in conversation; whom merriment confuses,...objection disconcerts; whose bashfulness restrains their exertion, and suffers them not to speak till the time of speaking is past." § 84. RULE II.—A period... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1858 - 418 pàgines
...censurers makes him say, Nor wine nor love could ever ace me gay; To writing bred, I knew not what to »ay. 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... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - 1861 - 468 pàgines
...sentence: " There are men whose powers operate in leisure and in retirement, and whose intellectual vigor deserts them in conversation; whom merriment confuses,...objection disconcerts; whose bashfulness restrains their ex ertion, and suffers them not to speak till the time of speaking is past." § 84. RULE II.—A period... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1864 - 460 pàgines
...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...retirement, and whose intellectual vigour deserts them iu conversation ; whom merriment confuses and objection disconcerts ; whose bashfulness restrains their... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 pàgines
...makes him say, " Nor wine nor love could ever sec 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... | |
 | George Thomas Coster - 1869 - 112 pàgines
...of what I have generally found in company as though he had read my inside." His words are these: " 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... | |
 | John Wilson - 1871 - 356 pàgines
...inherit. There are men whose powers operate in leisure and in retirement, and whose intellectual vigor deserts them in conversation; whom merriment confuses,...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 exertion, and suffers them not to... 
