 But how little can we venture to exult in any intellectual powers or literary attainments, when we consider the condition of poor Collins. I knew him a few years ago full of hopes and full of projects, versed in many languages, high in fancy, and strong...  The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review - Page 9edited by - 1807Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Main - Literary Criticism - 1874 - 480 pages
...part that we are happy to quote it here. The letter was written on the 8th of March, 1754 :— "But how little can we venture to exult in any intellectual...fancy, and strong in retention. This busy and forcible mind is now under the government of those, who lately could not have been able to comprehend the least... | |
 | ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 pages
...part that we are happy to quote it here. The letter was written on the 8th of March, 1754 :— " But how little can we venture to exult in any intellectual...fancy, and strong in retention. This busy and forcible mind is now under the government of those, who lately could not have been able to comprehend the least... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1881 - 772 pages
...acquainted not only with the learned tongues, but with the Italian, French, and Spanish languages ; full of hopes and full of projects, versed in many...languages, high in fancy, and strong in retention." Such was the language of Johnson, when, warmed by his own imagination, he could write like Longinus... | |
 | John Dennis - Poets, English - 1883 - 424 pages
...when it seemed most prosperous. " I knew him a few years ago," wrote the doctor to Joseph Warton, " full of hopes and full of projects, versed in many...fancy and strong in retention. This busy and forcible mind is now under the government of those who lately would not have been able to comprehend the least... | |
 | John Dennis - Poets, English - 1883 - 426 pages
...when it seemed most prosperous. " I knew him a few years ago," wrote the doctor to Joseph Warton, " full of hopes and full of projects, versed in many...fancy and strong in retention. This busy and forcible mind is now under the government of those who lately would not have been able to comprehend the least... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1883 - 596 pages
...troublesome. Two years afterwards, he is still haunted by the remembrance of the friend whom he had known " full of hopes and full of projects, versed in many...languages, high in fancy, and strong in retention;" and he breathed out the deep sympathy of his soul in the sublimest of his reflections : " The moralists... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1884 - 742 pages
...your papers of criticism with great commendation, though not with greater than they deserve. " But how little can we venture to exult in any intellectual...fancy, and strong in retention. This busy and forcible mind is now under the government of those who lately would not have been able to comprehend the least... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1884 - 722 pages
...Johnson thus speaks of Collins: " But how little can we venture to exult in any intellectual power or literary attainments, when we consider the condition...fancy, and strong in retention. This busy and forcible mind is now under the government of those who lately would not have been able to comprehend the least... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1885 - 490 pages
...Joseph Warton, written some months before, (March 8, 1754,) Dr. Johnson thus speaks of Collins. " But how little can we venture to exult in any intellectual...fancy, and strong in retention. This busy and forcible mind is now under the government of those, who lately could not have been able to comprehend the least... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 502 pages
...make its appearance and depart, that it may blaze and expire. Croker's Bomuell (8vo ed.), p. io2. • How little can we venture to exult in any intellectual...fancy, and strong in retention. This busy and forcible mind is now under the government of those who lately would not have been able to comprehend the least... | |
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