Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" 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. "
A New General Biographical Dictionary - Page 262
by Hugh James Rose - 1857
Full view - About this book

prefaces biographical and crirical to the works of the english poets

samuel johnson - 1781 - 396 pages
...fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the fcholar, the reafoncr, and the wit. But his knowledge was too multifarious to be always exact, and his purfuits were too eager to be alwayscautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which he...
Full view - About this book

The lives of the most eminent English poets; with critical ..., Volume 4

Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 pages
...fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the fcholar, the reafoner, and the wit. But his knowledge was too multifarious to be always exact, and his purfuits were too eager to be always cautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which...
Full view - About this book

The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: Pope. Pitt. Thomson. Watts. A ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 522 pages
...fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the fcholar, the reafoner, and the wit. But his knowledge was too multifarious to be always exact, and his purfuits were too eager to be always cautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which...
Full view - About this book

The Works of the English Poets: Prefaces

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 418 pages
...fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the fcholar, the reaibncr, and the wit. But his knowledge was too multifarious to be always exsd:, and his purfuits were too eager to be always cautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence,...
Full view - About this book

The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 52

Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1781 - 506 pages
...fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the fcholar, the reafoner, and the wit. But his knowledge was too multifarious to be always exadr, and his purfuits were too eager to be always, cautious. ' His abilities gave him an haughty...
Full view - About this book

Pope. Pitt. Thomson. Watts. A. Philips. West. Collins. Dyer. Shenstone ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 516 pages
...fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the fcholar, the reafoner, and the wit. But his knowledge was too multifarious to be always exaci, and his purfuits were too eager to be always cautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence,...
Full view - About this book

A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and ...

Biography - 1784 - 778 pages
...fancy fertile of original combinations ; and at " once exerted the powers of the fcholar, the reafoner, and " the wit. But his knowledge was too multifarious to be ,," always exaft, and his purfuits were too eager to be aU " ways pautious. His abilities gave him an haughty...
Full view - About this book

The lives of the most eminent English poets (concluded). Miscellaneous lives

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...fertile of original com- / binations, and at once exerted the powers of the fcholar, the reafoner, and the wit. But his knowledge was too multifarious to be always exact, and his purfuits were too eager to be always cautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which...
Full view - About this book

The lives of the most eminent English poets (concluded). Miscellaneous lives

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the fcholar, the reafoner, and the wit. But his knowledge was too multifarious to be always exact, and his purfuits were too eager to be always cautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which...
Full view - About this book

The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the most eminent English ...

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 676 pages
...fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the fcholar, the reafoner, and the wit. But his knowledge was too multifarious to be always exact, and his purfuits were too eager to be always cautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF