 | Charles Churchill - 1880 - 740 pages
...a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of origiuaj combinations : and at once exerted the powers of the scholar, the reasoner, and the wit....gave him a haughty consequence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify; and his impatience of opposition disposed him to treat his adversaries with such... | |
 | 1888 - 576 pages
...a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the scholar, the reasoner, and the wit....multifarious to be always exact, and his pursuits too eager to be always cautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which he disdained to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1871 - 542 pages
...a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the scholar, the reasoner, and the wit....multifarious to be always exact, and his pursuits too eager to be always cautious. His abilities gave him a haughty confidence, which he disdained to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 236 pages
...a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the scholar, the reasoner, and the wit....were too eager to be always cautious. His abilities 30 gave him an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify; and his impatience of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 228 pages
...a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the scholar, the reasoner, and the wit....were too eager to be always cautious. His abilities 30 gave him an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify ; and his impatience of... | |
 | 1903 - 464 pages
...a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original combinations; and at once exerted the powers of the scholar, the reasoner, and the wit....knowledge was too multifarious to be always exact, and liis pursuits were too eager to be always cautious. H'« abilities gave him a haughty consequence,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 pages
...acquisition, and did not sit together with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the scholar, the reasoner, and the wit....eager to be always cautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence which he disdained to conceal or mollify, and his impatience of opposition disposed... | |
 | Robert D. Blackman - 1908 - 328 pages
...a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the scholar, the reasoner, and the wit....multifarious to be always exact, and his pursuits too eager to be always cautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which he disdained to... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey - 1909 - 694 pages
...a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the scholar, the reasoner, and the wit....eager to be always cautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify; and his impatience of opposition disposed... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 pages
...he brought a memory full fraught with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the scholar, the reasoner, and the wit....eager to be always cautious. His abilities gave him an haughty confidence, which he disdained to conceal or mollify ; and his impatience of opposition... | |
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... perspicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and at once exerted the powers of the scholar, the reasoner, and the wit. But his knowledge was too multifarious to be always exact,... 
