 | English poets - 1790 - 312 pages
...crooks K a drefied with flowers ; and the Letters have fomething of that indiftinft and headftrong ardour for liberty which a man of genius always catches...and always fuffers to cool as he pafles forward. He ilaid not long at Oxford; for in 1728 lie began his travels, and faw France and Italy. When he returned,... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 1036 pages
...vifible in JU THE LIFE OF LYTTLETON. them. They have fomething of that indiftind and headltrong ardeur for liberty which a man of genius always catches when...world, and always fuffers to cool as he pafles forward. In 1756, he addrrfled an elegant copy of verfes to his coufin, Pitt, m lit h/itf bit arnmiffim in the... | |
 | Joseph Towers - 1796 - 464 pages
...Lord Lyttelton's " Perfian Let'* ters," that they " have fbmething of " that indiftinft and headftrong ardour for •* liberty, which a man of genius always...world, and *' always fuffers to cool as he pafles for*' ward77." He has not done juftice to Lord Lyttelton's merit as a writer ; and fcems to have confefled... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...: — ' The letters [Lyttelton's Persian Letters] have something of that indistinct and headstrong ardour for liberty which a man of genius always catches when he enters the world, and always suffers to cool as he passes forward.' Johnson's Works, viii. 488. his fellow-collegians. But Dr. Adams... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pages
...: — ' The letters [Lyttelton's Persian Letters] have something of that indistinct and headstrong ardour for liberty which a man of genius always catches when he enters the world, and always suffers to cool as he passes forward.' Johnson's Works, viii. 488. Aetat. 21.] His regard for Pembroke... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 340 pages
...and crooks drefled wijh flowers; and the Letters have fomething of that indiftindt . and headftrong ardour for liberty which a man of genius always catches when he enters the world, arid always fuffers to cool as he pnfles forward. He (laid not long at Oxford; for in 1728 he; began... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...always catches When he enters the world, and always suffers to cool as he passes forward. He staid not long at Oxford; for in 1728 he began his travels, and saw France and Italy. When he returned, he obtained a seat in parliament, and soon distinguished himself... | |
 | George Lyttelton (1st baron.) - 1801 - 188 pages
...Progress of Love," and his " Per" sian Letters," were both written when he was very young. He staid not long at Oxford; for in 1728 he began his travels, and saw France and Italy. When he returned, he obtained a seat in parliament, and soon distinguished himself... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...always catches when he enters the world, and always suffers to cool as he passes forward. He staid not long at Oxford; for in 1728 he began his travels, and saw France and Italy. When he returned, he obtained a seat in parliament, and soon distinguished himself... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 pages
...His "Progress of Love" and his " Persian Letters" were both written when he was very young. He staid not long at Oxford, for in 1728 he began his travels, and saw France and Italy. When he returned, he obtained a seat in Parliament, and soon distinguished himself... | |
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Letters have something of that indistinct and headstrong ardour for liberty which a man of genius always catches when he enters the world, and always suffers to cool as he passes forward. 
