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" 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 reasoner, and the wit. "
Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham - Page 14
by Englishmen - 1836
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A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors ...

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...
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Handbook to the Cathedrals of England. Western Division, Volume 1

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,...
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Lives of the English Poets: Swift-Lyttelton

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...
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Composition and Style

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...
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Representative Biographies of English Men of Letters

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...
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Contemporary Criticisms of Dr. Samuel Johnson, His Works, and His Biographers

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...
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Memoir of the Life, Character, and Writings of Philip Doddridge: With a ...

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...
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The European Magazine, and London Review, Volume 18

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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