 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 562 páginas
...wonderful productions of wit should we be deprived of from those, whose genius, by continual practice, hath been wholly turned upon raillery and invectives against...themselves, upon any other subject? We are daily complaining <-• I' the great decline of wit among us, and would take away the greatest, perhaps the only, topic... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 páginas
...be deprived of from those, whose genius, by continual practice, hath been wholly turned upon railcry and invectives against religion, and would therefore...able to shine, or distinguish themselves, upon any oth* See Sheridan's life, edit. 1784, p. 525 ; where are some remarks on this passage- Ker subject... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 486 páginas
...wonderful productions of wit should we be deprived of, from those, whose genins, by continual practice, has been wholly -turned upon raillery and invectives against...topic we have left? who would ever have suspected Asgyll for a wit, or Toland for a philosopher, if the inexhaustible stock of Christianity had not been... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 358 páginas
...wonderful productions of wit should we be deprived of, from those, whose genins, by continual practice, has been wholly turned upon raillery and invectives against religion, and would therefore never be able to ehine or distinguish themselves, upon any other subject! we are daily complaining of the great decline... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 468 páginas
...wonderful productions of wit should we be deprived of, from those, whose genius, by continual practice, has been wholly turned upon raillery and invectives against...topic we have left? who would ever have suspected Asgil for a wit, or Tolaud for a philosopher, if the inexhaustible stock of Christianity had not been... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 470 páginas
...wonderful productions of wit should we be deprived of, from those, whose genius, by continual practice, has been wholly turned upon raillery and invectives against...topic we have left? who would ever have suspected Asgil for a wit, or Tolaud for a philosopher, if the inexhaustible stock of Christianity had not been... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 530 páginas
...by continual practice hath been wholly turned upon raillery and invectives against reKgion, and who would therefore never be able to shine or distinguish...of the great decline of .wit among us, and would. take away the greatest, perhaps the only topic we have left. Who would ever have suspected Asgill for... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1819 - 364 páginas
...from those, whose genius, by continual practice, hath been wholly turned upon railery and invective against religion, and would therefore never be able to shine, or distinguish themselves, upon any oth* See Sheridan's life. edit. 1784, p. 525 ; where are some re.marks on this passage. R. er subject... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 412 páginas
...produc" tions of wit should we be deprived of from thosri, " whose genius by continual practice, hath been " wholly turned upon raillery and invectives...of the great " decline of wit among us, and would take away " the greatest, perhaps the only, topic we have •" left. Who would ever have suspected... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 406 páginas
...wonderful productions of wit should we be deprived of from those whose genius, by continual practice, hath been wholly turned upon raillery and invectives against...religion, and would therefore never be able to shine pr distinguish themselves upon any other subject ! We are daily complaining of the great decline of... | |
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... to display their abilities? What wonderful productions of wit should we be deprived of, from those whose genius by continual practice hath been wholly turned upon raillery and invectives against religion, and would therefore never be able to shine... 
