...makes him say, Nor wine nor love could ever see me gay ; To writing bred, I kjiew not what to say. There are men whose powers operate only at leisure...objection disconcerts; whose bashfulness restrains their exertion, and suiters them not to speak till the time of speaking is past ; or whose attention to their...

...makes him say : Nor wine nor love could ever see me gay ; To writing bred, I knew not what to say *. There are men whose powers operate only at leisure and in retirement, aiid whose intellectual vigour deserts them in conversation ; whom merriment confuses, and objection...

...censurers makes him sayr Nor wine nor love could ever see me gay; To writing bred, I knew not what to say. There are men whose powers operate only at leisure...merriment confuses, and objection disconcerts : whose basbfulness restrains their exertion, and suffers them not to speak till the time of speaking is past;...

...ideas.1 BLAIU. A person is said to be disconcerted who suddenly loses his collectedness of thinking ; ' There are men whose powers operate only at leisure...whom merriment confuses, and objection disconcerts.'' JOHNSON. A person is said to be discomposed who loses his regularity of feeling ; But with the changeful...

...SEPTEMBER, 1827. on SOME OF THE PERSONAL PECULIARITIES OF THE Literary Men of the Last and Present Age. " There are men whose powers operate only at leisure, and in retirement — whom merriment confuses and objection disconcerts. — Johnson. " WHAT nights we have passed at...

...graphical description given by Johnson, of the inconveniences with which the want of it is attended. " There are men whose powers operate only at leisure and in retirement, and whose intellectual vigor deserts them in conversation ; whom merriment confuses, and objection disconcerts ; whose bashfulness...

...graphical description given by Johnson, of the inconveniences with which the want of it is attended. " There are men whose powers operate only at leisure and in retirement, and whose intellectual vigor deserts them in conversation ; whom merriment confuses, and objection disconcerts ; whose bashfulness...

...graphical description given by Johnson, of the inconveniences with which the want of it is attended. " There are men whose powers operate only at leisure and in retirement, and whose intellectual vigor deserts them in conversation ; whom merriment confuses, and objection disconcerts ; whose bashfulness...

...SEPTEMBER, 1827. ON SOME OF THE PERSONAL PECULIARITIES OF THE Literary Men of the Last and Present Age. " There are men whose powers operate only at leisure, and in retirement— whom merriment confuses and objection disconcerts.— Johnson. " WHAT nights we have passed at the...

...Drycien are amongst them), whom Johnson has so admirably described in the following passage : — " There are men whose powers operate only at leisure...objection disconcerts ; whose bashfulness restrains their exertion, and suffers them not to speak till the time of speaking is past ; or whose attention to their...