 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 pages
...oppreffed his imagination, nor clouded his perfpicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and...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,... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1781 - 506 pages
...opprefied his imagination, nor clouded his perlpicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 pages
...oppreffed his imagination, nor clouded his perfpicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and...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,... | |
 | samuel johnson - 1781 - 396 pages
...opprefled his imagination, nor clouded his perfpicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught with a 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 418 pages
...opprefled his imagination, nor clouded his perfpicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught with a 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 504 pages
...opprefled his imagination, nor clouded his perfpicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original combinations,...always exaft, and his purfuits were too eager to be always cautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which he difdained to conceal or mollify... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...oppreffed his imagination, nor clouded his perfpicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original combinations,...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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 676 pages
...opprefled his imagination, nor clouded his perfpicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original combinations,...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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original com- / binations, and at once exerted the powers of the fcholar, the...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,... | |
 | 1790 - 542 pages
...afancy fertile of onginalcflinbinarions; and ¡:t cnce exerted the powers of the fcholar, tlie 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,... | |
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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. 
