 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1880 - 182 pàgines
...was forced to resign, and retired to literary occupations, with a pension of fifteen hundred pounds. In the office, says Pope, he could not issue an order...without losing his time in quest of fine expressions. — Many years seemed to be before him, and he meditated many works — a tragedy on the death of Socrates,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1890 - 474 pàgines
...through other offices ; but expectation is often disappointed ; it is universally confessed that he was unequal to the duties of his place. , (( ^In the...therefore was useless to the defence of the government. Ir/^the office, says Pope,t he could not issue an order without losing his time in quest of fine expressions.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1893 - 152 pàgines
...through other offices ; but expectation is often disappointed ; it is universally confessed that he was unequal to the duties of his place. In the house...was useless to the defence of the government. In the enemies knew the true reason, with an account of declining health, and the necessity of recess and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - 1900 - 318 pàgines
...through io other offices. But expectation is often disappointed : it is universally confessed that he was unequal to the duties of his place. In the House...the defence of the Government. In the office, says Pope,1 15 he could not issue an order without losing his time in quest of fine expressions. What he... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 456 pàgines
...through other offices; but expectation is often disappointed : it is universally confessed that he was unequal to the duties of his place. In the house of commons he could not speak3, and therefore was useless to the defence of the government. In the office, says Pope, he could... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 pàgines
...through 30 other offices ; but expectation is often disappointed ; it is universally confessed that he was unequal to the duties of his place. In the House...could not speak, and therefore was useless to the defense of the government. In the office, says Pope, he could was forced to solicit his dismission,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 pàgines
...through 30other offices; but expectation is often disappointed; it is universally confessed that he was unequal to the Duties of his place. In the House of Commons he could not speaIE| "and" Therefore was useless to the defense .of the government. In the office, says Pope, he... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1910 - 518 pàgines
...works, and despised his name, which, however, she did not change." In the House of Commons he (Addison) could not speak, and therefore was useless to the defence of the Government. some member of Parliament, who having been galled by Addison's wit, revenged himself upon this sensibility... | |
 | James Boswell - 1928 - 364 pàgines
...ascent through other offices; but expectation is often disappointed; it is universally confessed that he was unequal to the duties of his place. In the house...quest of fine expressions. What he gained in rank, he loft in credit; and, finding by experience his own inability, was forced to solicit his dismission,... | |
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In the house of commons he could not speak, and, therefore, was useless to the defence of the government. In the office, says Popey, he could not issue an order without losing his time in quest of fine expressions. 
