| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1899 - 836 pages
...oppressed hiť Imagination nor clouded his perspicacity. To every work he brought a memory full-fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original combinations,...and at once exerted the powers of the scholar, the rcaaoner, and the wit. But hiŤ knowledge was too multifarious to tie always exitct, and hiŤ put-suite... | |
| 1903 - 464 pages
...not oppressed his imagination, nor clouded his perspicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original...knowledge was too multifarious to be always exact, and liis pursuits were too eager to be always cautious. H'Ť abilities gave him a haughty consequence,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 pages
...also post, POPE, 191, 246. 3 ' Gray said Warburton's learning was a late acquisition, and did not sit together with a fancy fertile of original combinations,...eager to be always cautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence which he disdained to conceal or mollify, and his impatience of opposition disposed... | |
| Robert D. Blackman - 1908 - 328 pages
...not oppressed his imagination, nor clouded his perspicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original...multifarious to be always exact, and his pursuits too eager to be always cautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which he disdained to... | |
| Charles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey - 1909 - 666 pages
...not oppressed his imagination, nor clouded his perspicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original...eager to be always cautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify; and his impatience of opposition disposed... | |
| John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 438 pages
...oppressed his imagination, nor clouded his perspicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and...eager to be always cautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify ; and his impatience of opposition... | |
| James Robert Boyd, Philip Doddridge - 1860 - 486 pages
...oppressed his imagination nor clouded his perspicuity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught, with a fancy fertile of original combinations ; and...his pursuits were too eager to be always cautious." From the Rev. W. Warburton, DD " BRANT BROUGHTON, August 13, 1739. "I am sorry to hear you have been... | |
| 1790 - 540 pages
...imagination, nor clouded his perspicuity. To every work he brought a memory hill-fraught, together witha fancy fertile of original combinations; and at once exerted the powers, of the ftholar, the reaibner, and the wit. But his knowledge was too multifarious to be always exaft, and... | |
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