 | Samuel Johnson - 1861 - 660 páginas
...some imperfection ; and 1 think the greatest defect in his was an affectation in delicacy, 01 lather effeminacy, and a visible fastidiousness, or contempt...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... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - 826 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 - 1863 - 304 páginas
...conversation must have been equally instructive and entertaining. There is no character without some speck or imperfection ; and I think the greatest defect in his was, an affectation of delicacy, or rather effeminacy, and a visible fastidiousness, or contempt and disdain of his inferiors... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1866 - 298 páginas
...conversation must have been equally instructive and entertaining. There is no character without some speck or imperfection ; and I think the greatest defect in his was, an affectation of delicacy, or rather effeminacy, and a visible fastidiousness, or contempt and disdain of his inferiors... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1875 - 400 páginas
...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1879 - 184 páginas
...knowledge, his conversation must ha^e 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 :24 though he seemed to value others chiefly according to the progress they had made in knowledge,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1881 - 570 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...contempt and disdain of his inferiors in science. 1 He also had, in some degree, that weakness which disgusted Voltaire so much in Mr. Congreve : though... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1882 - 246 páginas
...conversation must have been equally instructing and entertaining. Eut 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1885 - 356 páginas
...thy range of rock. In rude tumultuous chaos !" instructing and entertaining. But he was also a good man, a man of virtue and humanity. There is no character...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 - 1886 - 516 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. 
