 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 296 páginas
...Dead had called him an exile."—Walpole's Letters, ed. 1866, iii. 380. Gray, according to Temple, " had in some degree that weakness which disgusted Voltaire so much in Congreve. . . . He could not bear to be considered merely as a man of letters, and though without birth... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1890 - 480 páginas
...knowledge, his conversation must have been equally instructing and entertaining ; but he was also a good man, a man of virtue and humanity. There is no character...weakness which disgusted Voltaire so much in Mr. Congreve : though he seemed to value others chiefly according to the progress they had made in knowledge, yet... | |
 | John Morley - 1894 - 618 páginas
...conversation must have been equally instructing and entertaining. But he was also a good man, a well-bred man, a man of virtue and humanity. There is no character...which disgusted Voltaire so much in Mr. Congreve. Though he seemed to value others chiefly according to the progress they had made in knowledge, yet... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hepburn Millar - 1896 - 316 páginas
...and entertaining; but he was also a good! man, a man of virtue and humanity. There is no character I without some speck, some imperfection, and I think...which disgusted Voltaire so much in Mr. Congreve: though he seemed to value others chiefly according to the progress they had made in knowledge, yet... | |
 | 1900 - 674 páginas
...entertaining. But he was also a good man, a well-bred man, a man of virtue and humanity. There is HO characier without some speck, some imperfection ; and I think...which disgusted Voltaire so much in Mr. Congreve. Though he seemed to value others chiefly according to the progress they had made in knowledge, yet... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1901 - 416 páginas
...his tastes and habits, and foppish in his dress. " There is no character," writes the Rev. WJ Temple, "without some speck, some imperfection ; and I think the greatest defect in his was affectation of delicacy, or rather effeminacy, and a visible fastidiousness or contempt and disdain... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1902 - 724 páginas
...conversation must have been equally instructing and entertaining. But he was also a good man, a well-bred man, a man of virtue and humanity. There is no character...which disgusted Voltaire so much in Mr. Congreve. Though he seemed to value others chiefly according to the progress they had made in knowledge, yet... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1902 - 414 páginas
..."without some speck, some imperfection ; and I think the greatest defect in his was affectation of delicacy, or rather effeminacy, and a visible fastidiousness...that weakness which disgusted Voltaire so much in Congreve. Though he seemed to value others chiefly according to the progress they had made in knowledge,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 páginas
...knowledge, his conversation must have been equally instructing and entertaining 3 ; but he was also a good man, a man of virtue and humanity. There is no character...think the greatest defect in his was an affectation in delicacy4, or rather effeminacy, and a visible fastidiousness, or contempt and disdain of his inferiors... | |
 | James Boswell - 1908 - 398 páginas
...knowledge his conversation must have been equally instructing and entertaining ; but he was also a good man, a man of virtue and humanity. There is no character...weakness which disgusted Voltaire so much in Mr. Congreve ; though he seemed to value others chiefly according to the progress they had made in knowledge, yet... | |
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There is no character without some speck, some imperfection; and I think the greatest defect in his was an affectation in delicacy, or rather effeminacy, and a visible fastidiousness, or contempt and disdain of his inferiors in science. 
