 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 220 pages
...moral poet. About this time Warburton began to make his appearance in the first ranks of learning. He was a man of vigorous faculties, a mind fervid and vehement, supplied by incessant and unlimited enquiry, with wonderful extent and variety of knowledge, which yet had not oppressed his imagination,... | |
 | William Magee - 1812 - 564 pages
...distinguished scholar and divine, as it is pourtrayed by the hand of a master, I here willingly subjoin. — " He was a man of vigorous faculties, a mind fervid and vehement, supplied by incessant and unlimited enquiry, with wonderful extent and variety of knowledge, which yet had not oppressed his imagination,... | |
 | John Nichols - 1812 - 736 pages
...man of vigorous faculties, a mind fervid and vehement, supplied by incessant and unlimited enquiry, with wonderful extent and variety of knowledge, which...had not oppressed his imagination, nor clouded his perspicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original... | |
 | John Nichols - 1812 - 734 pages
..."About this time [1738] Warburtoa began to make his'appeurance in the first mnks of Learning. He \vas a man of vigorous faculties, a mind fervid and vehement, supplied by incessant and unlimited enquiry, with wonderful extent ivnd variety of knowledge, which yet had not oppressed his Imagination,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...to liberty. About this time Warburton began to make his appearance in the first ranks of learning. He was a man of vigorous faculties, a mind fervid and vehement supplied by ince&saut and unlim1ted inquiry, with wonderful extent and variety of knowledge, which yet had not... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1813 - 480 pages
...of W.irburton is summed up by Dr. Johnson. " He was," as he observes, " a man of vigorou* laculiies, a mind fervid and vehement, supplied by incessant...inquiry, with wonderful extent and variety of knowledge. To every work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original combinations,... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 482 pages
...scriplurq prophecies. T'ic character of Warburlon is summed up by Or- Johnson. " He was," as he observes, " a man of vigorous faculties, a mind fervid and vehement, supplied by inoessant and unlimited inquiry, with wonderful extent and \jriety of knowledge. To every work he brought... | |
 | John Aikin - 1815 - 506 pages
...pen of Dr. Johnson, certainly not in the spirit of panegyric, but yet with apparent impartiality. " He was a man of vigorous faculties, a mind fervid and vehement, supplied by incessant and unlimited enquiry, with wonderful extent and variety of knowledge, which yet had not oppressed his imagination,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 410 pages
...to liberty. About this time Warburton began to make his appearance in the first ranks of learning. He was a man of vigorous faculties, a mind fervid and vehement, supplied by incessant and unlimited enquiry, with wonderful extent and variety of knowledge, which yet had not oppressed his imagination,... | |
 | 1817 - 490 pages
...omitted. " About this time (1738), Warburton began to make his appearance in the first ranks of learning. He was a man of vigorous faculties, a mind fervid...had not oppressed his imagination nor clouded his perspicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original... | |
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He was a man of vigorous faculties, a mind fervid and vehement supplied by incessant and unlimited inquiry, with wonderful extent and variety of knowledge, which yet had not oppressed his imagination nor clouded his perspicacity. 
