 | Edmund Burke - History - 1800 - 624 pages
...opportunity of information ; he confuiled the living as well ss (lie dead; he read his compofitions to his friends, and was never content with mediocrity when excellence could be attained. He confidered poetry as the bufinefs of his life, and however he might feem to lament his occupation,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 516 pages
...opportunity of information ; he confulted the living as well as the dead ; he read his compoiitions to his Friends, and was never content with mediocrity when excellence could be attained. He considered poetiy as the bufinefs of* his life, and however he might feem to lament his occupation, he followed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 522 pages
...opportunity of information ;;1he confulted the living as -well as the dead ; he read his compofitions to his friends, and was never content with mediocrity when excellence could be attained. He confidered poetry as the bu'finefs of his life, and however he might feem to lament his' occupation,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 pages
...opportunity of information ; he confulted the living as well as the dead ; he read his compofitions to his friends, and was never content with mediocrity when excellence could be attained. He confidered poetry as the bufinefs of his life, and however he might feem to lament his occupation,... | |
 | samuel johnson - 1781 - 396 pages
...opportunity of information ; he confulted the living as well as the dead; he read his compofitions to his friends, and was never content with mediocrity when excellence could be attained. He confidered poetry as the bufinefs of his life, and however he might feem to lament his occupation,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...no opportunity of information; he confulted the Irving as well as the dead; he read his compelitions to his friends, and was never content with mediocrity when excellence could be attained. He conCdered poetry as the bufinefs of his life ; and, however he might feem to lament his occupation,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 676 pages
...opportunity of information ; he confukcd the living as well as the dead; he read his comcompetitions to his friends, and was never content with mediocrity when excellence could be attained. He coniidered poetry as the bufmefs of his life ; and, however he might feem to lament his occupation,... | |
 | 1793 - 738 pages
...intelligence, and loft no opportunity of information ; he confultcd the living as well as the dead ; he read his compositions to his friends, and was never...with mediocrity when excellence could be attained. He coniidered poetry as the bufmefs of his life, and however lie might feem to lament his occupation,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...intelligence, and lost no opportunity of information ; he consulted theliving as well as the dead ; he read his compositions to his friends, and was never...considered poetry as the business of his life; and, however lie might seem to lament his occupation, he followed it with constancy ; to make verses was his first... | |
 | History - 1800 - 624 pages
...opportunity of information ; he confulted the living as well as the dead ; he read his compofitions to his friends, and was never content with mediocrity when excellence could be attained. He confidered poetry as the bufinefs of his life, and however he might feem to lament his occupation,... | |
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These benefits of nature he improved by incessant and unwearied diligence; he had recourse to every source of intelligence, and lost no opportunity of information ; he consulted the living as well as the dead ; he read his compositions to his friends,... 
