 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pagina’s
...under March 18, 1752, and 1780 in Mr. Langton's Collection. 1 Of Hawkesworth Johnson thus wrote : ' An account of Dr. Swift has been already collected,...friendship. I cannot therefore be expected to say much of a life concerning which I had long since communicated my thoughts to a man capable of dignifying... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pagina’s
...post, under March 18, 1752, and 1780 in Mr. Langton's Collection. 1 Of Hawkesworth Johnson thus wrote: 'An account of Dr. Swift has been already collected,...laid before him in the intimacy of our friendship. 1 cannot therefore be expected to say much of a life concerning which I had long since communicated... | |
 | 1802 - 442 pagina’s
...sometimes, occasioned embarrassments in his domestic affairs ; but he had no friend to remind him " th.*t nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that...make knowledge useless,' wit ridiculous, and genius contemplible." Dr. Jobnan. At what period of his life Carolan commenced an itinerant musician, is not... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 336 pagina’s
...with a short abstract of what he found in Dr. Hawkesworth, for which he makes the following apology. "An account of Dr. Swift has been already collected...friendship. I cannot therefore be expected to say much of a life, concerning which I had long since communicated my thoughts, to a man capable of dignifying... | |
 | John Aikin - 1804 - 666 pagina’s
...Lives of the English Poets is too valuable a biographical record of our author to be omitted : — " An account of Dr. Swift has been already collected...friendship. I cannot, therefore, be expected to say much of a life, concerning which I had long since communicated my thoughts to a man capable of dignifying... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pagina’s
...did not exempt him ; or those, who, in confidence of superior capacities or attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, shall be reminded, that...useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible. 3 O a, &WIFT SWI .F T. AN Account of Dr. Swift has been already collected, with great diligence and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pagina’s
...in consequence of superior capacities and attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, ought to be reminded, that nothing will supply the want of...useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible. Life of Savage. IMPRISONMENT. Few are mended by imprisonment; and he whose crimes have made confinement... | |
 | Richard Savage - 1805 - 284 pagina’s
...did not exempt him ; or those, who, in confidence of superior capacities or attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, shall be reminded that...useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible. ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS; BY RICHARD SAVAGE. WEW.YORK: PRINTED BY WILLIAM A. DAVIS, IBfl, 39 5Billiain«Strmf... | |
 | William Collins - 1805 - 266 pagina’s
...without its use, if those who, in confidence of their superior capacities and attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, shall be reminded, that...useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible." — Vide Johnson's Life of Savage, 156 That Dr. Johnson evidently means all the consequences here denounced... | |
 | William Collins (picture-dealer.) - 1805 - 260 pagina’s
...without its use, if those who, in confidence of their superior capacities and attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, shall be reminded, that...make knowledge useless^ wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible."—Fide Johnson's Life of Savage, That Dr. Johnson evidently means all the consequences... | |
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... nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible. 
