 But how little can we venture to exult in any intellectual powers or literary attainments, when we consider the condition of poor Collins. I knew him a few years ago, full of hopes and full of projects, versed in many languages, high in fancy, and strong...  La Belle Assemblée - Page 311807Full view - About this book
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pages
...years ago full of hopes, and full of projects, versed in many languages, high in fancy, and strong in retention. This busy and forcible mind is now under...comprehend the least and most narrow of its designs.' Wooll's Warton, i. 219. Again, on Dec. 24, 1754: — ' Poor dear Collins ! Let me know whether you... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...years ago full of hopes, and full of projects, versed in many languages, high in fancy, and strong in retention. This busy and forcible mind is now under...comprehend the least and most narrow of its designs.' Wooll's Warton, i. 219. Again, on Dec. 24, 1754: — ' Poor dear Collins ! Let me know whether you... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1807 - 788 pages
...years ago, full of hopes and full ot projects, versed in many languages, high in fancy, and strong in retention. This busy and forcible mind is now under...narrow of its designs. What do you hear of him ? Are tliere hopes of his recovery ? Or is he to pass the remainder of his life in misery and degradation... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1807 - 456 pages
...years ago, full of hopes and full of projects, versed in many languages, high in fancy, and strong in retention. This busy and forcible mind is now under...of its designs. What do you hear of him ? Are there there hopes of his recovery ? Or is he to pass the remainder of his life in misery and degradation... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1807 - 912 pages
...years ago, full of hopes and full of projects, versed in many languages, high in fancy, and btrong in retention. This busy and forcible mind is now under...most narrow of its designs. What do you hear of him ? Arc there there hopes of his recovery ? Or is he to pass the remainder of his life in misery and... | |
 | 1807 - 570 pages
...hopes aiul full of pro» j*cts, versed in many languages, high in fancy, and strong in retention. Tiiis busy and forcible mind is now under the government...most narrow of its designs. What do you hear of him ? ant there hopes of his recovery ? or is he to pass the remainder of hi» life in misery and degradation... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1807 - 904 pages
...years ago, full of hopes and full of projects, versed in many languages, high in fancy, and strong in retention. This busy and forcible mind is now under...comprehend the least and most narrow of its designs." " That man is no common loss. The moralists all talk of the uncertainty of fortune, and the transitoriness... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1807 - 786 pages
...projects, versed in many languages, high in fancy, and strong in retention. This busy and forcible mine! is now under the government of those who lately would...been able to comprehend the least and most narrow of ils designs. WhaL do you hear of him ? Are there hopes of his recovery ? Or is he to puss the remainder... | |
 | 1807 - 574 pages
...full of hopes and full of projects, vcrstd.in many languages, high infancy, and strong in reteiitiou. This busy and forcible mind is now under the government of those who lately would not have been able to coniprchead the kast an4 rñost narrow of its defigns. What do you hear of him? are there hopes of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 514 pages
...years ago full of hopes, and full of projects, versed in many languages, high in fancy, and strong in retention. This busy and forcible mind is now under the government of those, who lately could not nave been able to comprehend the least and most narrow of his designs. What do you hear of... | |
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