 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 strani
...fhepherds a-nd flocks, and crooks dreffed with flowers ; and the Letters have fomething of that indiftin<5t and headftrong ardour for liberty which a man of genius...enters the world, and always fuffers to cool as he pafies forward. He ftaid not long at Oxford ; for in 1728 he began his travels, and faw France and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 294 strani
...fhepberds and flocks, and crooks dreffed with flowers; and the Letters have fomething of that indiftincl: and headftrong ardour for liberty which a man of genius...enters the world, and always fuffers to cool as he paffes forward. He ftaid not long at Oxford; for in 1728 he began his travels, and faw France and Italy.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 strani
...fhepherds and flocks, and crooks drefled with flowers ; and the Letters have fomething of that indiftinct and headftrong ardour for liberty which a man of genius always catches when he enters die world, and always fuffers to cool as he paffes forward. He ftaid not long at Oxford ; for in 1728... | |
 | James Thomson Callender - 1782 - 78 strani
...i'nme printer's journeyman. * The Perfian Letters have fomething of that iniJirtinct and * headflrong ardour for liberty which a man of genius always ' catches when he enters the world, and always luflers to cool ' as he pafl'es forward.' Of the admired monody to the memory of Lady Lyttleton, we... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1782 - 588 strani
...and crooks dreffcd with flowers ; and the L-ttcrs have fometbing of that indillintt and headllrong ardour for liberty which a man of genius always catches when he cr.ters the world, and always differs to cool as he pafles forward.' This lad remark is, furely, neither... | |
 | Several Hands - 1782 - 586 strani
...and crooks drcfi'cd with flowers ; and the Letters have fomething of that ir.dillinct and headllron£ ardour for liberty which a man of genius always catches when he euters the world, and always fuffers to ciol as he pafles forward.' This laft remark is, furely, neither... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 504 strani
...and crooks drefled with flowers ; and the Letters have fomething of that indiftincl: and headflrong ardour for liberty which a man of genius always catches...world, and always fuffers to cool as he pafles forward. i • • He ftaid not long at Oxford; for in 1728 he began his travels, and faw France and Italy.... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 1036 strani
...vifible in JU THE LIFE OF LYTTLETON. them. They have fomething of that indiftind and headltrong ardeur for liberty which a man of genius always catches when...world, and always fuffers to cool as he pafles forward. In 1756, he addrrfled an elegant copy of verfes to his coufin, Pitt, m lit h/itf bit arnmiffim in the... | |
 | Joseph Towers - 1796 - 464 strani
...have been his opinion. He fays of Lord Lyttelton's " Perfian Let'* ters," that they " have fbmething of " that indiftinft and headftrong ardour for •*...world, and *' always fuffers to cool as he pafles for*' ward77." He has not done juftice to Lord Lyttelton's merit as a writer ; and fcems to have confefled... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 strani
...: — ' The letters [Lyttelton's Persian Letters] have something of that indistinct and headstrong ardour for liberty which a man of genius always catches when he enters the world, and always suffers to cool as he passes forward.' Johnson's Works, viii. 488. his fellow-collegians. But Dr. Adams... | |
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