 | William Collins, Thomas Gray - 1852 - 332 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...science- He also had, in some degree, that weakness ""Inch disgusted Voltaire so much iu Mr Congreve ; though he seemed to value others chiefly according... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 368 páginas
...of rock, In rude tumultuous chaos ! " equally instructing and entertaining. But he was also a good man, a man of virtue and humanity. There is no character...fastidiousness or contempt and disdain of his inferiors in scienee. He also had in some degree that weakness which disgusted Voltaire so much in Congreve. Though... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 512 páginas
...amusements; and he had a fine taste in painting, prints, architecture, and gardening. His greatest defect was an affectation in delicacy, or rather effeminacy,...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,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 362 páginas
...without some speck, some imperfeetion ; and I think the greatest defeet in his, was an affeetation in delicacy* or rather effeminacy, and a visible fastidiousness...that weakness which disgusted Voltaire so much in Congreve. Though he seemed to value others chiefly aeeording to the progress they had made in knowledge,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 384 páginas
...of rock, In rude tumultuous chaos ! " equally instructing and entertaining. But he was also a good man, a man of virtue and humanity. There is no character...the greatest defect in his, was an affectation in delicaey* or rather effeminaey, and a visible fastidiousness or contempt and disdain of his inferiors... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 344 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 that they had made in knowledge,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1857 - 464 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...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1857 - 474 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...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... | |
 | 1857 - 574 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...degree, that weakness which disgusted Voltaire so much iu Congreve ; though he seemed to value others chiefly according to the progress they had made in knowledge,... | |
 | John Milton - 1860 - 574 páginas
...think the ter: for a new road is become an old one.'" greatest defect in his was an affectation of delicacy, or rather effeminacy, and a visible fastidiousness, or contempt and disdain of his inferiors in As a writer, he had this peculiarity, that he did not write his pieces first rudely, and then correct... | |
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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. 
