 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 216 pàgines
...makes 30 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 _J suffers them not to speak till the time of speaking is past ; or whose attention to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 530 pàgines
...writing bred, I knew not what to say2.' There are men whose powers operate only at leisure and in 167 retirement, and whose intellectual vigour deserts...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... | |
 | S. R. Winchell - 1908 - 200 pàgines
...folly. 26. 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1913 - 220 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...conversation ; whom merriment confuses and objection dis- 10 concerts; whose bashfulness restrains their exertion, and suffers them not to speak till the... | |
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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... 
