 | James Boswell - 1786 - 552 pagina’s
...wholesome air of poverty.' Johnson said of Warburton : ' His abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify ; and his...superiority as made his readers commonly his enemies, and excited against the advocate the wishes of some who favoured the cause. He seems to have adopted... | |
 | 1790 - 542 pagina’s
...reaibner, and the wit. But his knowledge was too multifarious to be always exaÄ, and his purluits were too eager to be always cautious. His abilities gave him a haughty confidence, which he difdajrred to conceal or mollify ; and his impatience of oppufition difpoicd him... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pagina’s
...exact, and his pursuits too eager to be always cautious. His abilities gave him a haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify ; and his...adversaries with such contemptuous superiority as ir.ade his readers commonly his enemies, and excited against the advoca^ the wishes of some who favoured... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 230 pagina’s
...exact, and his pursuits too eager to be always cautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify ; and his...superiority as made his readers commonly his enemies, and excited against the advocate the wishes of some who favoured the cause. He seems to have adopted... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pagina’s
...pursuits too eager to be always cautious. His abilities gave him a haughty confidence, which hediidained to conceal or mollify ; and his impatience of opposition...superiority as made his readers commonly his enemies, and excited against the advocate the wishes of some who favoured the cause. He seems to have adopted... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 316 pagina’s
...cautious. His ahilities gave him an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or moderate; aud his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat...superiority as made his readers commonly his enemies, and excited against the advocate the wishes of some who favoured the cause. He seems to have adopted... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 464 pagina’s
...exact, and his pursuits too eager to be always cautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify ; and his...superiority as made his readers commonly his enemies, and excited against the advocate the wishes of some who favoured the cause. He seems to have adopted... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 pagina’s
...exact, and his pursuits too eager to be always cautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify ; and his...superiority as made his readers commonly his enemies, and excited; against the advocate the wishes of some who favoured the cause. He seems to have adopted... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 pagina’s
...exact, and his pursuits too eager to be always cautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify ; and his...superiority as made his readers commonly his enemies, and excited against the advocate the wishes of some who favoured the cause. He seems to have adopted... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 pagina’s
...his pursuits too eager to be aVways cautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which lie disdained to conceal or mollify; and his impatience...adversaries with such contemptuous superiority, as made his reader* commonly his enemies, and excited ag-iinst the advocate trie wishes of some who favoured the... | |
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His abilities gave him a haughty consequence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify ; and his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat his adversaries with such contemptuous superiority as made his readers commonly his enemies, and excited against... 
