 | John Wilson - 1871 - 364 pages
...inherit. There are men whose powers operate in leisure and in retirement, and whose intellectual vigor deserts them in conversation; whom merriment confuses,...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... | |
 | Public school series - 1874 - 408 pages
...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...conversation ; whom merriment confuses, and objection disconeerts : whose bashfulness restrains their exertion, and suffers them not to speak till the time... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - 1874 - 468 pages
...sentence : " There are men whose powers operate in leisure and in retirement, and whose intellectual vigor deserts them in conversation ; whom merriment confuses,...objection disconcerts; whose bashfulness restrains their exertion, and suffers them not to speak till the time of speaking is past." § 84. RULE II. — A period... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 346 pages
...merely by the pain of seeing others pleased and of hearing applauses which another enjoys. DlfFIDEJMCE. 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1884 - 528 pages
...in common with some men of the first eminence in literature. " There are men," says Dr. Johnson, " whose powers operate only at leisure and in retirement,...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1885 - 506 pages
...in common with some men of the first eminence in literature. " There are men," says Dr. Johnson, " whose powers operate only at leisure and in retirement,...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1885 - 538 pages
...in common with some men of the first eminence in literature. " There are men," says Dr. Johnson, " whose powers operate only at leisure and in retirement,...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 522 pages
...verbiage of Robertson 4, or the ' ' There are,' says Johnson, speaking of Dryden ( Works, vii. 292), ' men whose powers operate only at leisure and in retirement,...intellectual vigour deserts them in conversation.' See also ante, i. 413. ' No man,' he said of Goldsmith, ' was more foolish when he had not a pen in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1895 - 234 pages
...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...conversation ; whom merriment confuses, and objection 20 disconcerts ; whose bashfulness restrains their exertion, and suffers them not to speak till the... | |
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There are men whose powers operate only at leisure and in retirement, and whose intellectual vigour deserts them in conversation ; whom merriment confuses, and objection disconcerts : whose bashfulness restrains their exertion, and suffers them not to... 
