 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...what to be rejected ; and, in the works of others, what was to be shunned, and what was to be copied. But good sense alone is a sedate and quiescent quality,...its own operations, and preserves safety, but never gaius supremacy. Pop* had likewise genius ; a mind active, ambitions, and adventurous, always investigating,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...what to be rejected ; and, in the works of others, what was to be shunned, and what was to be copied. But good sense alone is a sedate and quiescent quality,...operations, and preserves safety, but never gains supremacy. Popa had likewise genius; a mind active, ambitious, and adventurous, always investigating, always aspiring;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...of superfluities merely ostentatious. Notes upon Shakfpeare, vol. 6, p. 339. GOOD SENSE. Good sense is a sedate and quiescent quality, which manages its...operations, and preserves safety, but never gains supremacy. Life of Pope. • RURAL SPORTS. It is probable all the sports of the field are of Gothic original;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 pages
...rejected ; and, in. the works of others, what was to be shunned, and what was to be copied. u 2 But But good sense alone is a sedate and quiescent quality,...still longing to go forward, in its highest flights still wishing to be higher ; always imagining something greater than it knows, always endeavouring... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 pages
...to be rejected ; and, in the works of others, what was to be shunned, and what was to be copied. . But good sense alone is a sedate and quiescent quality,...still longing to go forward, in its highest flights still wishing to be higher ; always imagining something greater than it knows, always endeavouring... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 494 pages
...what to be rejected ; and, in the works of others, what was to be shunned, and what was to be copied. But good sense alone is a sedate and quiescent quality,...still longing to go forward, in its highest flights still wishing to be higher ; always imagining something greater than it knows, always endeavouring... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...quiescent quality, which manages its posses* 8ions well, but does not increase them ; it collects fesv materials for its own operations, and preserves safety,...still longing to go forward, in its highest flights still wishing to be higher ; always imagining something greater than it knows, always endeavouring... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 464 pages
...what to be rejected ; and, in the works of others, what was to be shunned, uml what was to be copied. But good sense alone is a sedate and quiescent quality, which manages its possessions well, but docs not increase them ; it collects few materials for its own operations, and preserves safety, but... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...what to be rejected , and, in the work* of others, what was to be shunned, and what was to be copied. But good sense alone is a sedate and quiescent quality, which manages its posses"biciiis well, hut does not increase them ; it collects few materials for its own operations,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 pages
...what to be rejected ; and, in the works of others, what was to be shunned, and what was to be copied. But good sense alone is a sedate and quiescent quality,...still longing to go forward, in its highest flights still wishing to be higher ; always imagining something greater than it knows, always endeavouring... | |
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Pope had likewise^ genius; a mind active, ambitious, and adventurous, always investigating, always aspiring; in its widest searches still longing to go forward, in its highest flights still wishing to be higher; always imagining something greater than... 
