But how little can we venture 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 and full of projects, versed in many languages, high in fancy, and strong... La Belle Assemblée - Página 311807Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1907 - 368 páginas
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| James Boswell - 1799 - 640 páginas
...years ago full of hopes, and full of projects, versed in many languages, high in fancy, and strong in retention. This busy and forcible mind is now under...comprehend the least and most narrow of its designs.' Wooll's Warton, i. 219. Again, on Dec. 24, 1754: — ' Poor dear Collins ! Let me know whether you... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 648 páginas
...years ago full of hopes, and full of projects, versed in many languages, high in fancy, and strong in retention. This busy and forcible mind is now under...comprehend the least and most narrow of its designs.' Wooll's Warton, i. 219. Again, on Dec. 24, 1754: — ' Poor dear Collins ! Let me know whether you... | |
| Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1807 - 788 páginas
...years ago, full of hopes and full ot projects, versed in many languages, high in fancy, and strong in retention. This busy and forcible mind is now under...narrow of its designs. What do you hear of him ? Are tliere hopes of his recovery ? Or is he to pass the remainder of his life in misery and degradation... | |
| 1806 - 708 páginas
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| Sir Egerton Brydges - 1807 - 456 páginas
...years ago, full of hopes and full of projects, versed in many languages, high in fancy, and strong in retention. This busy and forcible mind is now under...of its designs. What do you hear of him ? Are there there hopes of his recovery ? Or is he to pass the remainder of his life in misery and degradation... | |
| Sir Egerton Brydges - 1807 - 912 páginas
...years ago, full of hopes and full of projects, versed in many languages, high in fancy, and btrong in retention. This busy and forcible mind is now under...most narrow of its designs. What do you hear of him ? Arc there there hopes of his recovery ? Or is he to pass the remainder of his life in misery and... | |
| 1807 - 570 páginas
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| 1807 - 570 páginas
...hopes aiul full of pro» j*cts, versed in many languages, high in fancy, and strong in retention. Tiiis busy and forcible mind is now under the government...most narrow of its designs. What do you hear of him ? ant there hopes of his recovery ? or is he to pass the remainder of hi» life in misery and degradation... | |
| Sir Egerton Brydges - 1807 - 904 páginas
...years ago, full of hopes and full of projects, versed in many languages, high in fancy, and strong in retention. This busy and forcible mind is now under...comprehend the least and most narrow of its designs." " That man is no common loss. The moralists all talk of the uncertainty of fortune, and the transitoriness... | |
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