 | George Walker - 1825 - Liczba stron: 668
...spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is every where alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare...greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - Liczba stron: 476
...spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is every where alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare...with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat and insipid ; his comick wit degenerating into clinches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he... | |
 | John Platts - 1826 - Liczba stron: 830
...thing you more than see it, you feel it too. He needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards and found her there. I cannot say...with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat and insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is... | |
 | John Platts - 1826 - Liczba stron: 882
...spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards and found her there. I cannot say he is every where alike; were he so I should do him injury to compare...with the' greatest of mankind. He is many times flat and insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - Liczba stron: 410
...spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is every where alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare...greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - Liczba stron: 408
...spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is every where alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare...greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - Liczba stron: 406
...spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is every where alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare...greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1828 - Liczba stron: 522
...spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is every where alike; were he so, I should do him injury to compare...greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - Liczba stron: 844
...greater commendation. He wna naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature : casting down The towering hopes and all the pride of man, Such as of late at Cfirtlmgeua comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - Liczba stron: 516
...greater commendation : he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards and found her there. I cannot say...were he so, I should do him injury to compare him witli the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid ; his . comic wit degenerating into clinches;... | |
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He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when some great occasion is presented to him... 
