 Buffon into English, yet I much doubt, if without that spur he would ever have put his Pegasus into action : no, if he had been rich, the world would have been poorer than it is by the loss of all the treasures of his genius and the contributions of his...  Memoirs of Richard Cumberland - Page 349by Richard Cumberland - 1807 - 432 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1806 - 788 pages
...English, yet I much doubt if, with-- out that spur, he would ever have put his Pegasus into action ; no, if he had been rich, the world •would have been...such a frontrank soldier in the fields of fame, if he had not been pressed into the service, and driven on to glory •with the bayonet of sharp necessity... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1806 - 500 pages
...his rV-gi'us into action ; no, if he hart been rich, the world would have been poorer than it is hy the loss of all the treasures of his genius and the contributions of his pen. Oliver Goldsmith began at this time to write for the stage, and it is to be lamented that he did not... | |
 | Flowers of literature - 1807 - 626 pages
...INCENTIVE TO GENIUS. > "• Necessitas non habet legem." SENECA. " There is no law in necessity." WHO would say that Johnson himself would have been such a champion in literature, such a front rank soldier in the fields of fame, if he had not been pressed into the service, and driven into... | |
 | Edward Mangin - 1808 - 236 pages
...the gentleness of his manners and the goodness of his heart, Mr. Cumberland very handsomely adds: " if he had been rich, the world would have been poorer...treasures of his genius and the contributions of his pen." Doctor STREAM'S interesting answer to my application is as follows: • My dear Sir, ' Could I have... | |
 | William Mudford - 1812 - 662 pages
...English ; yet I much doubt, if without that spur, he would ever have put his Pegasus into action; no, if he had been rich, the world would have been poorer...treasures of his genius and the contributions of his pen." • , There is, in this extract, too contemptuous a mention of Sir John Hill, a man who like Blackmore,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 440 pages
...English, yet I much doubt, if, without that spur, he would ever have put his Pegasus into action : no, if he had been rich, the world would have been poorer...of his genius, and the contributions of his pen.» Much, in, the same style was Gold$mith himself accustomed to talk of his mercenary labours. A poor... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 408 pages
...English, yet I much doubt if without that spur he would ever have put his Pegasus into action; no, if he had been rich, the world would have been poorer...treasures of his genius and the contributions of his pen. CUMBERLAND. HENDERSON THE ACTOR. HE was an actor of uncommon powers, and a man of the brightest intellect,... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 410 pages
...English, yet I much doubt if without that spur he would ever have put his Pegasus into action ; no, if he had been rich, the world would have been poorer...treasures of his genius and the contributions of his pen. CUMBERLAND. HENDERSON THE ACTOR. HE was an actor of uncommon powers, and a man of the brightest intellect,... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 406 pages
...English, yet I much doubt if without that spur he would ever have put his Pegasus into action ; no, if he had been rich, the world would have been poorer...treasures of his genius and the contributions of his pen. CUMBERLAND. HENDERSON THE ACTOR. HE was an actor of uncommon powers, and a man of the brightest intellect,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...English, yet I much doubt, if, without that spur, he would ever have put his Pegasus into action : no, s, folly is at hand : Learning is better far than...or land. Let not your virtue trip; who trips may hie pen." Much in the same style was Goldsmith himself accustomed to talk of his mercenary labours.... | |
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