 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
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 574 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 - 1889 - 566 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 - English literature - 1890 - 568 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...attainments, when we consider the condition of poor Collins 1 I knew him a few years ago full of hopes, and full of projects, versed in many languages, high in... | |
 | American fiction - 1895 - 540 pages
...three letters of Johnson to Joseph Warton, the first two written in 1754 and the last in 1756: 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1892 - 492 pages
...your papers of Criticism with great commendation, though not with greater than they deserve 2. 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... | |
 | American fiction - 1896 - 564 pages
...from three letters of Johnson to Joseph Warton, the first two written in 1754 ancl tne last 'n But how little can we venture to exult in any intellectual...full of projects, versed in many languages, high in fancv and strong in retention. This busy and forcible mind is now under the government of those who... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1901 - 404 pages
...Mr. War f ou ; but labouring under the most deplorable languor of body and dejection of mind.' ' But how little can we venture to exult in any intellectual...attainments, when we consider the condition of poor Collins. [In a letter to Dr. Joseph Warton, written some months before (March 8i Z 754)i Dr. Johnson thus speaks... | |
 | William Collins - 1907 - 140 pages
...Oxford was probably early in 1754. On March 8th Dr. Johnson, in a letter to Joseph Warton, said : — ' 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 - 1907 - 712 pages
...ter to Dr. Joseph Warton, written some months before (March 8, 1754,) Dr. hus speaks of Collins : But how little can we venture to exult in any intellectual...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,... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 616 pages
...the book of God the best. — HAYLEY, WILLIAM AND SARGENT, JOHN, Inscription on Collins's Monument. 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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