 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 pages
...literature, and able to animate his mafs of knowledge by a bright and active imagination; a fcholar with great brilliancy of wit; a wit, who, in the crowd of life, retained and difcovered a noble ardour of religious zeal. In this poem Pope feems to reckon with the pu blick. He... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 418 pages
...literature, and able to animate his mafs ef knowledge by a bright and active imagination ; a fcholar with great brilliancy of wit; a wit, who, in the crowd of life, retained and difcovered a noble ardour of religious zeal. In this poem Pope feems to reckon with the publick. He... | |
 | 1782 - 402 pages
...literature, and able to animate his mafs of knowl-dge by a bright and active imagination: a fchular with great brilliancy of wit; a wit, who in the crowd of life, retained and difcovercd a noble ardour of religious zeal. 1 * VOL. I. N This -r '94 j This frame compared with tranfcendent... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - 1782 - 432 pages
...literature, and able to animate his mafs of knowl dge by a bright and ai r i!ve nm^ination : a kholar with great brilliancy of wit; a wit, who in the crowd of life, rtta red and dilcovered a nobie ardour of religious zeaV' This frame compa&ed with tranfcendent fkill.... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - 1782 - 380 pages
...literature, and able to animate his mafs of knowledge by a bright and aftive imagination: a ftholar with great brilliancy of wit; a wit, who in the crowd of !iie, retainod and difcovered a noble ardour of religious 7t.il." This frame compared with tranfceadcnt... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 506 pages
...literature, and able to animate his mafs of knowledge by a bright and active imagination ; a fcholar-with great brilliancy of wit; a wit, who, in the crowd of life, retained and difcovered a noble ardour of religious zeal. ) . - , • -^--*t- -V^* •, 1-1 .. Jn this poem Pope... | |
 | 1781 - 770 pages
...: tare, and able to animate his mais of knowledge by a bright and »¿live imagination ; a fcholar with great brilliancy of wit ; a wit, who, in the crowd of life, retained and dif» covered a noble ardour of religious zeal." " Te fuits litigious, ignorant and raw, Compell'd... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 422 pages
...to animate his mafs of knowledge by a bright and aclive imagination; a fcholar with great brilliance of wit; a wit, who, in the crowd of life, retained and difcovered a noble ardour of religious zeal. Jn this poem Pope feems to reckon with the pubHck. He... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...venatablc for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his profession, persed in the sciences, acquainted with ancient literature,...bright and active imagination,; a scholar with great brilliance of wit; a wit, who, in the crowd of life, retained and discovered a noble ardour of religious... | |
 | David Irving - 1804 - 500 pages
...candidate for literary distinction. His character is thus sketched by the masterly hand of Dr Johnson: " Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful...retained and discovered a noble ardour of religious zealV Cunningham and Ruddiman rendered themselves eminent in the department of philology; and the former... | |
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Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his profession, versed in the sciences, acquainted with ancient literature, and able to animate his mass of knowledge by a bright and active imagination ; a scholar with great brilliancy of wit ;... 
