| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 522 pages
...fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the fcholar, the reafoner, and the wit. But his knowledge was too multifarious to be always exact, and his purfuits were too eager to be always cautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which... | |
| Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1781 - 506 pages
...opprefied his imagination, nor clouded his perlpicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the fcholar, the reafoner, and the wit. But his knowledge was too multifarious to be always exadr, and... | |
| samuel johnson - 1781 - 396 pages
...opprefled his imagination, nor clouded his perfpicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the fcholar, the reafoncr, and the wit. But his knowledge was too multifarious to be always exact, and... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 516 pages
...oppreffed his imagination, nor clouded his perfpicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the fcholar, the reafoner, and the wit. But his knowledge was too multifarious to be always exaci, and... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 418 pages
...opprefled his imagination, nor clouded his perfpicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the fcholar, the reaibncr, and the wit. But his knowledge was too multifarious to be always exsd:, and... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 pages
...oppreffed his imagination, nor clouded his perfpicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the fcholar, the reafoner, and the wit. But his knowledge was too multifarious to be always exact, and... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1783 - 504 pages
...knowledge, which yet had not opprefled his imagination, nor clouded his perfpicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy...combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the fcholar, the reafoner, and the wit. But his knowledge was too multifarious to be always exaft, and... | |
| Biography - 1784 - 778 pages
...his imagination, npr clouded his pcrfpicacity. To " every work he brought a rneniory full trauglu, together " with a fancy fertile of original combinations ; and at " once exerted the powers of the fcholar, the reafoner, and " the wit. But his knowledge was too multifarious to be ,," always exaft,... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...knowledge, which yet had not oppreffed his imagination, nor clouded his perfpicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy...combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the fcholar, the reafoner, and the wit. But his knowledge was too multifarious to be always exact, and... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 676 pages
...knowledge, which yet had not opprefled his imagination, nor clouded his perfpicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy...combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the fcholar, the reafoner, and the wit. But his knowledge was too multifarious to be always exact, and... | |
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