 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 pàgines
...seem to have made the strongest impression on his contemporaries. By Dryden he is described as "ОГ piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies." His oratory is utterly and irretrievably lost to us, like that of Somers, of Bolingbroke, of Charles... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1008 pàgines
...voice, seem to have made the strongest impression on his contemporaries. By Dryden he is described as " of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies." His oratory is utterly and irretrievably lost to us, like that of Somers, of Bolingbroke, of Charles... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 820 pàgines
...seem to have made the strongest impression on his contemporaries. By Dryden he is described as " ОГ piercing wit and pregnant thought. Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies." His oratory is utterly and irretrievably lost to us, like that of Somers, of Bolingbroke, of Charles... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 752 pàgines
...voice, seem to have made the strongest impression on his contemporaries. By Dryden he is described as " learn. They looked for nothing out of themselves. They borrowed nothing. They translated nothing. His oratory is utterly and irretrievably lost to us, like that of Somers, of Bolingbroke, of Charles... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 466 pàgines
...made the strongest impression on his eontemporaries. By Dryden he is deseribed as " Of piereing ivit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies." His oratory is utterly and irretrievably lost to us, like that of Somers, of Bolingbroke, of Charles... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 pàgines
...the subject of a few laudatory lines : — " Jotham, of piercing wit and pregnant thought ; Endowed by nature, and by learning taught To move assemblies,...side ; Nor chose alone, but turned the balance too, So much the weight of one brave man can do." The following sketch of the Duke of Buckingham may be... | |
 | John Dryden - 1866 - 348 pàgines
...slave of state : Whom David's love with honours did adorn, «o That from his disobedient son were torn. Jotham of piercing wit, and pregnant thought : Endued...learning taught, To move assemblies, who but only tried a man of wit and parts, not a genius. His poems are feeble and flimsy, notwithstanding Dryden has so... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 758 pàgines
...voice, seem to have made the strongest impression on his contemporaries. By Dryden he is described as " of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies." His oratory is utterly and irretrievably lost to us, like that of Somers, of Bolingbroke, of Charles... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866 - 734 pàgines
...voice, seem to have made the strongest impression on his contemporaries. By Dryden he is described as " of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies." His oratory is utterly and irretrievably lost to us, like that of Somers, of Bolingbroke, of Charles... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 pàgines
...slave of state : Whom David's love with honours did adorn, ^ That from his disobedient son were torn. turn'd the balance too ; So much the weight of one brave man can do. Hushai, the friend of David in... | |
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Jotham, of piercing wit and pregnant thought,* Endued by nature, and by learning taught To move assemblies, who but only tried The worse awhile, then chose the better side; Nor chose alone, but turned the balance too— So much the weight of one brave... 
