 | Robert D. Blackman - 1908 - 328 pagina’s
...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. But his knowledge was too multifarious to be always exact, and his pursuits too eager to be always... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey - 1909 - 694 pagina’s
...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. But his knowledge was too multifarious to be always exact, and his pursuits were too eager to... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 pagina’s
...perspicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the scholar, the reasoner, and the wit. But his knowledge was too multifarious to be always exact, and his pursuits were too eager to... | |
 | Barrett Harper Clark - 1928 - 1452 pagina’s
...every work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original combinations, I have more cause, I assure thee, Master water-bailiff, to pity the wit. But his knowledge was too multifarious to be always exact, and his pursuits were too eager to... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1841 - 590 pagina’s
...clouded his perspicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy feitile of original combination, and at once exerted the powers...and wit, eloquence and knowledge — rarely referred to — more rarely quoted, and never read ! It was said of a great statesman of the last age, that... | |
 | James Robert Boyd, Philip Doddridge - 1860 - 486 pagina’s
...perspicuity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught, with a fancy fertile of original combinations ; and at once exerted the powers of the scholar, the reasoner, and the wit. But his knowledge was too multifarious to be always exact, and his pursuits were too eager to... | |
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... 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 reasoner, and the wit. 
