 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...bashfulness restrains their exertion, and suffers then* not to speak till the time of speaking is past; or whose attention. to their own character makes them...what has not been considered, and cannot be recalled. JLife pf Dry den. There are some men who, in a great measure,, supply the place of reading by gleaning... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 pages
...bashfulness restrains their exertions, and suffers them not to speak till the time of speaking is past, or whose attention to their own character makes them...what has not been considered and cannot be recalled. " Of Dryden's sluggishness in conversation it is in vain to search or to guess the cause. He certainly... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 482 pages
...reftrains their exertion, and fuffers them not to fpeak till the time of fpeaking is paft ; or whofe attention to their own character makes them unwilling to utter at hazard what lias not been conlidered, and cannot be recalled. Of Of Dryden's fluggifhnefs in converfation it is... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...bashfulness restrains their exertion, and suffers them not to speak till the time of speaking is past ; or whose attention to their own character makes them...what has not been considered, and cannot be recalled. Of Of Dryden's sluggishness in conversation it is vain to search or to guess the cause. He certainly... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 pages
...bashfulness restrains their exertion, and suffers them not to speak till the time of speaking is past ; or whose attention to their own character makes them...at hazard what has not been considered, and cannot 1m recalled. Of Dryden's sluggishness in conversation it is vain to search or to guess the cause. He... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...bashfulness restrains their exertion, and suffers them not to speak till the time of speaking is past; or whose attention to their own character makes them...what has not been considered, and cannot be recalled. Of Dryden's sluggishness in conversation it is vain to search or to guess the cause. He certainly wanted... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 582 pages
...rellrains their exertion, and fuffers them not to fpeak till the time of fpeaking is paft; or whofe attention to their own character makes them unwilling to utter at hazard what has not been coufidered, and cannot be recalled. Of Dryden's fluggifhnefs in converfation it is vain to fearch or... | |
 | Johann Lorenz Mosheim - 1811 - 474 pages
...bashfulness restrains their exertion, and suffers them not to speak, till the time of speaking is past ; or whose attention to their own character, makes them unwilling to utter at hazard, what hae .not bee" considered, and cannot be recalled." ALSO, In one neat Svo. vol. OBSERVATIONS ON THE... | |
 | Johann Lorenz Mosheim - 1811 - 464 pages
...their exertion, and suffers them not to speak, till the time of speaking is past ; or whose attenv tion to their own character, makes them unwilling to utter at hazard, what hao jsot beeu considered, and cannot be recalled." ALSO, ID one neat 8vo. vol. OBSERVATIONS ON THE... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 582 pages
...bashfulness restrains their exertion, and suffers " them not to speak till the time of speaking is past ; or whose " attention to their own character makes them...has not been considered and cannot be " recalled*/' The tendency however of scholastic disputations to cure these defects, it must not be forgotten, belongs... | |
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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... 
