 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pagina’s
...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...merriment confuses, and objection disconcerts ; whose baslifulness restrains their exertion and suffers them pbt to speak till the time of speaking is past;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pagina’s
...hours, he knows not \\\i\, when his hand is out, Life of Milton. There are men whose .powers operate at leisure. and in retirement, and whose intellectual...objection disconcerts; whose bashfulness restrains their exertion, and suffers then* not to speak till the time of speaking is past; or whose attention. to... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pagina’s
...say, Nor wine nor love could ever see me gay ; To writing bred, I knew not what to say. There arc m«n whose powers operate only at leisure and in retirement, and whose intellectual vigour desevtsthem in conversation; whom merriment confuses, and objection disconcerts ; whose bash fulness... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 pagina’s
...distinction till the Duke of Buckinghamshire gave him a tablet inscribed only with the name of DRYDEN. " There are men whose powers operate only at leisure...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 has... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pagina’s
...gay ; To writing bred, I knew not what to say. There are men whose powers operate only at lei-, sure and in retirement, and whose intellectual vigour deserts...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 - 1811 - 420 pagina’s
...censurers makes him say, Nor wine nor love could ever see me gay ; To writing bred, 1 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... | |
 | Johann Lorenz Mosheim - 1811 - 474 pagina’s
...out from little circumstances, such remarks as these, on men and manners. " There are men, says he, 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... | |
 | Johann Lorenz Mosheim - 1811 - 464 pagina’s
...out from little circumstances, such remarks as these, on men and manners. " There arc men, says he, whose powers operate only at leisure, and in retirement,...whose intellectual vigour deserts them in conversation j whom merriment confuses, and objection disconcerts, whose bashfulness restrains their exertion, and... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 560 pagina’s
...graphical description given by Johnson, of the inconveniences with which the want of it is attended. " There are men whose powers operate only at leisure...retirement, and whose intellectual vigour deserts * Leibnitz. Op. Tom. VI. p. 72. Edit. Dutens. t Aristotle's definition of aj.^ivo/« turns upon one... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 486 pagina’s
...love his frankness. 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... | |
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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... 
