| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1759 - 608 pages
...to all he faid ; which ye: was rather of * delight, than weight. There needs no more be faid to ex* tol the excellence and power of his wit, and pleafantnefs...of very great faults ; that is, fo to cover them, i that they were not taken notice of to his reproach ; viz. a * narrownefs in his nature to the loweft... | |
| History - 1762 - 578 pages
...no more be fàid to extol the excellence and power of his wit, and pleafantnefs of his conversation, than that it was of magnitude enough, to cover a world of very great faults ; that is, fo to cover 4 them, t hem, that they were not taken notice of to his reproach; viz. a narrownefs in his nature... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 358 pages
...There " needs no more be faid to extol the " excellence and power of his wit, and " pleafantnefs-of his -converfation, than " that it was of magnitude...them, that they " were not taken notice of to his re" proach ; viz. a narrownefs in his na" ture to the loweft. degr.ee ; an abject" nefs and warit of... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 494 pages
...•* faid ; which yet was rather of delight than ** weight. There needs no more be faid to ** extol the excellence and power of his wit, " and pleafantnefs...is, fo to •* cover them, that they were not taken no** tice of to his reproach ; viz. a narrownefs ** in bis nature to the loweft degree ; an ab" jectnefs... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 498 pages
...pleaiantnefs of his converfation, than " that it was of magnitude enough to cover *' a world of very grtfat faults ; that is, fo to •* cover them, that they were not taken no" tice of to his reproach ; viz. a narrowuefs " in his nature to the loweft degree ; an ab** jectnefs... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
..." all he faid ; which yet was rather of delight than " weight. There needs no more be faid to extol the " excellence and power of his wit, and pleafantnefs...that " is, fo to cover them, that they were not taken no" tice of to his reproach, viz. a narrownefsin his na* " ture to the loweft degree 5 an abjeflnefs... | |
| History - 1792 - 528 pages
...weight. There needs no more to be faid to extol the excellence and power of his wit, and pleafantncls of his converfation, than that it was of magnitude...world of very great faults ; that is, fo to cover 3'* 3*9 them, that .they were not taken notice of to his reproach : viz. a narrownefs in his nature... | |
| Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1793 - 268 pages
...to extol the excellence and power of his wit, and pleasantness of his conversation, than that it.was of magnitude enough to cover a world of very great faults ; that is, so to cover them, that they were not taken notice of to his reproach ; namely, a narrowness in his... | |
| Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - 1798 - 326 pages
...to ali He laid ; which yet was rather of Delight, than Weight. There needs no more be faid to extol the Excellence and Power of his Wit, and Pleafantnefs...cover a World of very great Faults, that is, fo to covpr them , that They were not taken !Notice of to his Reproach ; viz a Narrownefs in his Nature to... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...more be said to " extol the excellence and power of his wit, and pleasantness of his conver" sation, than that it was of magnitude enough to cover a world of very " great faults ; that is, so to cover them, that they were not taken notice "of to his reproach; viz. a narrowness in his nature... | |
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