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" It raiseth admiration, as signifying a nimble sagacity of apprehension, a special felicity of invention, a vivacity of spirit, and reach of wit... "
Littell's Living Age - Página 217
1896
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A Thousand and One Gems of English Prose

1872 - 556 páginas
...stirring in it some wonder, and breeding some delight thereto. It raiseth admiration, as signilying a nimble sagacity of apprehension, a special felicity...vivacity of spirit and reach of wit more than vulgar. It seemeth to argue a rare quickness of parts, that one can fetch in remote conceits applicable ; a notable...
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The life of Samuel Johnson ... together with A journal of a tour to the ...

James Boswell - 1874 - 584 páginas
...doth affect and amuse the fancy, stirring in it some wonder, and breeding some delight thereto. It raiseth admiration, as signifying a nimble sagacity...purpose before him ; together with a lively briskness of humour, not apt to damp those sportful flashes of imagination. (Whence in Aristotle such persons are...
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Journal of the Proceedings of The...annual Convention of the ..., Volúmenes1-5

Episcopal Church. Diocese of Western Michigan - 1875 - 872 páginas
...not break and smoking flax shall he not ((ucnch." With almost sadness in his manner, there was "that rare quickness of parts, that one can fetch in remote conceits applicable." I can well appreciate the remark of one who was with him in England : " No one won his way into the...
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Typical selections from the best English authors, with ..., Volumen1

English authors - 1876 - 484 páginas
...doth affect and amuse the fancy, stirring in it some wonder, and breeding some delight thereto. It raiseth admiration, as signifying a nimble sagacity...purpose before him ; together with a lively briskness of humour, not apt to damp those sportful flashes of imagination. It also procureth delight, by gratifying...
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Wine and walnuts

Literary curiosities - 1876 - 386 páginas
...doth affect and amuse the fancy, stirring in it some wonder, and breeding some delight thereto. It raiseth admiration, as signifying a nimble sagacity...purpose before him ; together with a lively briskness of humour, not apt to damp those sportful flashes of imagination. It also procureth delight, by gratifying...
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Lectures on the English Poets and the English Comic Writers

William Hazlitt - 1876 - 474 páginas
...doth afl'ect and amuse the fancy, showing in it some wonder, and breathing some delight thereto. It raiseth admiration, as signifying a nimble sagacity...conceits applicable ; a notable skill that he can dextrously accommodate them to a purpose before him, together with a lively briskness of humour, not...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical ..., Volumen1

Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 páginas
...doth affect and amuse the fancy, stirring in it some wonder, and breeding some delight therein. It solitude is, and how far it extendeth ; for a crowd...company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, seemeth to argue a rare quickness of parts, that one can fetch in remote conceits applicable ; a notable...
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Reminiscences and anecdotes of celebrated preachers

Thomas Jackson - 1876 - 428 páginas
...and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless ravings of fancy and windings of language. It raiseth admiration, as signifying a nimble sagacity...special felicity of invention, a vivacity of spirit, a reach of wit more than vulgar ; it seemeth to argue a rare quickness of parts, that one can fetch...
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Celebrities I Have Known: With Episodes, Political, Social ..., Volumen2

Lord William Pitt Lennox - 1877 - 378 páginas
...special felicity of invention, a vivacity of spirit and reach of wit more than vulgar ; it seemeth to argue a rare quickness of parts, that one can fetch...purpose before him, together with a lively briskness of humour, not apt to damp those sportful flashes of imagination ; whence in Aristotle such persons are...
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Classical English Reader: Selections from Standard Authors. With Explanatory ...

Henry Norman Hudson - 1877 - 478 páginas
...doth affect and amuse the fancy, stirring in it some wonder, and breeding some delight thereto. It raiseth admiration, as signifying a nimble sagacity...vivacity of spirit, and reach of wit more than vulgar : 6 it seeming to argue a rare quickness of parts, that one can fetch in remote conceits applicable...
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