 | William Collins, John Langhorne - English poetry - 1765 - 200 pages
...faculties with unerring reftitude, or invariable propriety, requires a degree of firmnefs and A of of cool attention, which doth not always attend the...higher gifts of the mind. Yet, difficult as nature herfelf feems to have rendered the tafk of regularity to genius, it is the fupreme confolation of dulnefs... | |
 | Books - 1776 - 612 pages
...fome brick-makers miflune one of bis fongs, and in return he deitroyed a number of their bricks." »' of cool attention, which doth not always attend the higher gifts ' of the mind. Yet difficult as natnre herfelf feems to have reu' dered the talk of regularity to genius, it is the fupreme confola'... | |
 | Luís de Camões - Explorers - 1776 - 674 pages
...faculties with unerring rectitude or " invariable propriety, requires a degree of firmnefs and of cool tf attention, which doth not always attend the higher gifts of ** the mind. Yet difficult as nature herfelf feems to have ren" dered the tafk of regularity to genius, it is the fupreme con" folation... | |
 | Bibliography - 1776 - 586 pages
...bear thofe faculties with unerring reñitude or invariable propriety, requires a degree of firmnefs and of cool attention, which doth not always attend the higher gifts of th« mind. Yet difficult as nature herielf feems to have rendered the tafk of regularity to genius,... | |
 | William Collins - English poetry - 1781 - 200 pages
...faculties with unerring rectitude, or invariable propriety, requires a degree of firmnefs and A of of cool attention, which doth not always attend the higher gifts of the mind. O i_J Yet, difficult as nature herfelf feems to have rendered the tufk of regularity to genius, it... | |
 | Ralph Heathcote - Anecdotes - 1786 - 354 pages
...ring rectitude or invariable propriety, re«« quires a degree of firmnefs and of cool at«c tention, which doth not always attend the '" higher gifts of the mind. Yet, difficult as " nature herfelf feems to have reduced the tafk " of regularity to genius, it is the fupreme t« confolation... | |
 | Luís de Camões - Explorers - 1791 - 486 pages
...bear thofe faculties with unerring rectitude or in" variable propriety, requires a degree of firmnefs and of " cool attention, which doth not always attend...higher " gifts of the mind. Yet difficult as nature herfelf feems " to have rendered the tafk of regularity to genius, it is the " fupreme confolation... | |
 | Luís de Camões - Explorers - 1791 - 494 pages
...bear thofe faculties with unerring rectitude or in" variable propriety, requires a degree of firmnefs and of " cool attention, which doth not always attend...higher " gifts of the mind. Yet difficult as nature herfelf feems " to have rendered the tafk of regularity to genius, it is the " fupreme confolation... | |
 | Luís de Camões - 1798 - 520 pages
...thofe faculties " with unerring rectitude or invariable propriety, re" quires a degree of firmnefs and of cool attention, " which doth not always attend...higher gifts of the " mind. Yet difficult as nature herfelf feems to have cf rendered the tafk of regularity to genius, it is the fu•' preme confolation... | |
 | Lawrence Dundas Campbell, E. Samuel - Books - 1801 - 870 pages
...rectitu'do, or invariable propriety, requires я degree of firmnefs and of coel attention, which does nor always attend the higher gifts of the mind. Yet difficult as nature herfi-!f feems to have rendered the tafe of regularity to genius, it is the fupreme confutation of... | |
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The gifts of imagination bring the heaviest task upon the vigilance of reason; and to bear those faculties with unerring rectitude, or invariable propriety, requires a degree of firmness and of cool attention, which doth not always attend the higher gifts... 
