 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...bashfulness restrains their exertion, and "> suffers them not to speak till the time of speaking i» past; or ties, if an estimate be made from his leuers,,an opinion too favourable Of Dryden's sluggishness in conversation it is vain to search or to guess the cause. He certainly wanted... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 742 pages
...speak till the time of speaking is past; or whose attention to their own character makes them unwilh'ng to utter at hazard 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 Wilson - 1844 - 142 pages
...speak till the time of speaking is past or whose attention to their own character makes 1 1 1 1 . 1 1 1 unwilling to utter at hazard what has not been considered, and cannot be recalled. Rut who the melodies of morn can tell ! — The wild brook, babbling down the mountain's side The lowing... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 714 pages
...bashfulness restrains their exertion, and •offers 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 « Uat has not been considered, and cannot be recalled. Of Dryden's sluggishness in conversation it... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1847 - 666 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...to utter at hazard what has not been considered and can not be recalled." (Life of Dryden.) The tendency, however, of scholastic disputations to cure these... | |
 | John Graham (compositor.) - 1848 - 94 pages
...exertions and suffers them not to speak till the time of speaking is past ; or whose attention to thcir own character makes them unwilling to utter, at hazard,...what has not been considered, and cannot be recalled. Excep. — Semicolons may be inserted between the parts of many compound sentences that do not admit... | |
 | C. Gough - 1853 - 414 pages
...bashfnhiess 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. THE MOUNTAIN WIND. Blast of the mountain ! the strongest, the fleetest, Sounding at eve in the pines... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 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. "° On the authority of a pamphlet published by Tom Brown, in 1690, ' The Reasons of Mr. Bayes' changing... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 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 Drvden's sluggishness in conversation it is vain to search or to guess the cause. He certainly wanted... | |
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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... 
