 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 548 pages
...difficulty ; as monsters, not for their beauty, bat their rarity; as juggling tricks, not for their use, but their abstruseness, are beheld with pleasure;...insipid, with an unusual, and thence grateful tang. The sermons of Dr. Barrow were of an unusual length, even for the time in which he lived. He seldom... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1813 - 480 pages
...difficulty : as monsters, not for their b?autv, but their rarity ; as juggling tricks, not for thoir use, but their abstruseness, are beheld with pleasure:)...distasteful or insipid, with an unusual and thence grateful tan;;." Satirical wit is well described ¡n the celebrated lines— " True wit is like the polished... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 482 pages
...for their beauty, but their rarity ; as juggling tricks, not for their use, but their abstrusetiess, are beheld with pleasure :) by diverting the mind...insipid, with an unusual and thence grateful tang." Satirical wit is well described in the celebrated lines — " True wit is like the polished stone Dug... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 546 pages
...ingtiliing gaiety and airiness of spr»f , by provoking to such dispositions of spirit in \vo.y oi emulation or complaisance ; and by seasoning matters,...insipid, with an unusual, and thence grateful tang. The sermons of Dr. Barrow were of an unusual length, even for the time in which he lived. He seldom... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1819 - 368 pages
...of difficulty (as monsters, not for their beauty but their rarity; as juggling tricks, not for their use but their abstruseness, are beheld with pleasure;)...way of emulation or complaisance, and by seasoning matter, otherwise distasteful or insipid, with an unusual and thence grateful tang."—Barrow's Works,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 408 pages
...difficulty: (as monsters, not for their beauty, but their rarity; as juggling tricks, not for their use, but their abstruseness, are beheld with pleasure):...insipid, with an unusual and thence grateful tang." of his ' Lives of the Poets,' as I am a poor patriot, who cannot afford to buy them." Johnson seemed... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 412 pages
...for their beauty, but their rarity; as juggling tricks, not for their use, but their abstruscness, are beheld with pleasure): by diverting the mind from...airiness of spirit; by provoking to such dispositions oi' spirit ill way of emulation or complaisance; and by seasoning matters, otherwise distasteful or... | |
 | 1821 - 400 pages
...difficulty : (as monsters, not for their beauty, but their rarity ; as juggling tricks, not for their, use-^ but their abstruseness, are, beheld with pleasure:)...road of serious, thoughts; by instilling gaiety and a.riuess of spirit ; by provoking to such dispositions of spirit in a way of emulation or complaisance;... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...BARKOW. 285 auty, but their rarity ; as juggling tricks, not for their use, but their abtruseness, are beheld with pleasure; by diverting the mind from...spirit; by provoking to such dispositions of spirit in the way of emulation or complaisance; and by seasoning matters, otherwise distasteful or insipid, with... | |
 | James Boaden - Actors - 1825 - 650 pages
...vul"gar : it procureth delight by gratifying curiosity with its " rareness or semblance of difficulty : by diverting the mind " from its road of serious thoughts; by instilling gayety and "airiness of spirit; by provoking to such dispositions of " spirit in way of emulation or... | |
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use, but their abstruseness, are beheld with pleasure:) by diverting the mind from its road of serious thoughts ; by instilling gaiety and airiness of spirit; by provoking to such dispositions of spirit in way of emulation or complaisance; and by seasoning... 
