 | Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 pages
...his perspicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers...always cautious. His abilities gave him a haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify ; and his impatience of opposition disposed him... | |
 | English language - 1888 - 576 pages
...his perspicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers...multifarious to be always exact, and his pursuits too eager to be always cautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which he disdained to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1871 - 542 pages
...his perspicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers...multifarious to be always exact, and his pursuits too eager to be always cautious. His abilities gave him a haughty confidence, which he disdained to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 228 pages
...his perspicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers...were too eager to be always cautious. His abilities 30 gave him an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify ; and his impatience of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 236 pages
...his perspicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers...were too eager to be always cautious. His abilities 30 gave him an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify; and his impatience of... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - American literature - 1899 - 836 pages
...his 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 rcaaoner, and the wit. But hi« knowledge was too multifarious to tie always exitct, and hi« put-suite... | |
 | Cathedrals - 1903 - 464 pages
...his perspicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original combinations; and at once exerted the powers...knowledge was too multifarious to be always exact, and liis pursuits were too eager to be always cautious. H'« abilities gave him a haughty consequence,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1905 - 582 pages
...said Warburton's learning was a late acquisition, and did not sit together with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers...eager to be always cautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence which he disdained to conceal or mollify, and his impatience of opposition disposed... | |
 | Robert D. Blackman - Authorship - 1908 - 328 pages
...his perspicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers...multifarious to be always exact, and his pursuits too eager to be always cautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which he disdained to... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey - Authors, English - 1909 - 664 pages
...his perspicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers...eager to be always cautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify; and his impatience of opposition disposed... | |
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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. 
