...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...

...little can we exult in any intellectual powers or literary entertainments, when we see the fate of poor Collins. I knew him a few years ago, full of hopes...able to comprehend the least and most narrow of its designs.—March 8,1754. Poor dear Collins. Let me know whether you think it would give him pleasure...

...any intellectual powers or literary entertainments, when we see the fate of poor Collins. I knew Mm a few years ago, full of hopes and full of projects,...able to comprehend the least and most narrow of its designs.—March 8,1754. Poor dear Collins. Let me know whether you think it would give him pleasure...

...little can we exult in any intellectual powers or literary entertainments, when we see the fate of poor Collins. I knew him a few years ago, full of hopes...languages, high in fancy, and strong in retention. This husy and forcible mind is now under the government of those who lately would not have been able to...

...when we COMO« the coniliiiitn i>! poor Collins ! I knew him a few years ago lull of hop»-, and lull of projects, versed in many languages, high in fancy, and strong in retention. This biiiy ¡mil forcible mind i> now under the government of those who lately would not have been able...

...the folly of exulting in any intellectual powers, when the condition of poor Collins is beheld,— "This busy and forcible mind is now under the government...comprehend the least and most narrow of its designs [" As in his Life of Savage, so in that of Collins, the charitable mind of Johnson is ever prominent;...

...or literary attainments, when we consider the condition of poor Collins 1 I knew him a Tew yc.tr» ago full of hopes and full of projects, versed in many languages, high in fancy, ami *trong in retention. This tuny and forcible mind it now under the government of those who lately...

...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...comprehend the least and most narrow of its designs." Again, the next year, Johnson wrote : " Poor, dear Collins ! Let me know whether you think it would...

...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...comprehend the least and most narrow of its designs. What do you hear of him? are there hopes of his recovery ? or is he to pass the remainder of his life...

...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...