 | Edmond Malone - 1800
...Yet he went into the worst part of King Charles's reign. The liveliness of his imagination was always too hard for his judgment. A severe jest was preferred...jest, to make even that which was suggested by himself ridiculous, he could not hold, but would study to raise the credit of his wit, though it made others... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800
...a point was settled, if he could find a new jest, to make even that which was suggested by himself ridiculous, he could not hold, but would study to raise the credit of hi* wit, though it made others call his judgment in question. When he talked to me, as a philosopher,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806
...was always too hard for his judgment. A severe jest was preferred by him to all arguments whatever; and he was endless in consultations : for when, after...though it made others call his judgment in question. When he talked to me, as a philosopher, of the contempt of the world ; I asked him ' what he meant... | |
 | Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806
...yet he went into the worst part of king Charles's reign. The liveliness of his imagination was always too hard for his judgment. A severe jest was preferred by him to all arguments whatever ; and he was endless in consultations : for when, after much discourse, a point was settled,... | |
 | John Dryden, Sir Walter Scott - 1808
...his, handed down by his contemporaries. Burnet says, " The liveliness of his imagination was always too hard for his judgment. A severe jest was preferred by him to all arguments whatever; and he was endless in consultations; for when, after much discourse, a point was settled,... | |
 | John Dryden, Sir Walter Scott - English literature - 1808
...his, handed down by his contemporaries. Burnet says, " The liveliness of his imagination was always too hard for his judgment. A severe jest was preferred by him to all arguments whatever; and he was endless in consultations ; for when, after much discourse, a point was settled,... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808
...his, handed down by his contemporaries. Burnet says, " The liveliness of his imagination was always too hard for his judgment. A severe jest was preferred by him to all arguments whatever; and he was endless in consultations ; for when, after much discourse, a point was settled,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816
...judgment. His severe jest was preferred by him to all arguments whatever; and he was endless in council ; for, when after much discourse a point was settled, if he could find a new jest, whereby he could make that which was digested by himself seem ridiculous, he could not hold, but would... | |
 | New and general biographical dictionary - 1816
...judgment. His severe jest was preferred by him to all arguments whatever; and he was endless in council ; for, when after much discourse a point was settled, if he could find a new jest, whereby he could make that which was digested by himself seem ridiculous, he could not hold, but would... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816
...judgment. His severe jest was preferred by him to all arguments whatever; and he was endless in council; for, when after much discourse a point was settled, if he could find a new jest, whereby he could make that which was digested by himself seem ridiculous, he could not hold, but would... | |
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... and he was endless in consultations ; for when after much discourse a point was settled, if he could find a new jest to make even that which was suggested by himself seem ridiculous, he could not hold, but would study to raise the credit of his wit,... 
