 | David Irving - 1803 - 266 pages
...favourable reprefentations which meiv Ifcdge by a bright and active, imagination ; a fcholar w1t4i great brilliance of wit ; a wit who, in the crowd of life, 're-' tained and diicovered a noble ardour of religious zesl. give of their own minds, with the guilt... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his profession, versed in the sciences, acquainted with ancient literature,...great brilliance of wit ; a wit, who, in the crowd ot life, retained and discovered a noble ardour of religious zeal. .In this poem Pope seems to reckon... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 494 pages
...and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his profession, versed in the sciences, acquainted with ancient literature,...the crowd of life, retained and discovered a noble ardour of religious zeal. In this poem Pope seems to reckon with the public. He vindicates himself... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 pages
...and veuerahlc for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his profession, versed in the sciences, acquainted with ancient literature,...the crowd of life, retained and discovered a noble ardour of religious teal. In this poem Pope seems to reckon with the public. He vindicates himself... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 pages
...of great comprehension, skilful in his profession, versed in the sciences, acquainted with antient literature, and able to animate his mass of knowledge...the crowd of life, retained and discovered a noble ardour of religious zeal. In this poem Pope seems to reckon with the publick. He vindicates himself... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 pages
...of great comprehension, skilful in his profession, versed in the sciences, acquainted with antient literature, and able to animate his mass of knowledge...the crowd of life, retained and discovered a noble ardour of religious zeal. In this poem Pope seems to reckon with the publick. He vindicates himself... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 pages
...of great comprehension, skilful in his profession, versed in the sciences, acquainted with ar.cirnt literature, and able to animate his mass of knowledge...imagination; a scholar with great brilliance of wit; a wii, who, in the crowd of life, retained and discovered a uoble ardour of religious zeal. In this poem... | |
 | David Irving - 1810 - 468 pages
...masterly hand of Dr Johnson: " Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his profession, versed in the sciences, acquainted with ancient literature, and able to animate his mass of knowledge by a-bright and active imagination; a scholar with great brilliancy of wit; a wit who, in the crowd of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 pages
...and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his profession, versed in the sciences, acquainted with ancient literature,...the crowd of life, retained and discovered a noble ardour of religious zeal. ; In this poem Pope seems to reckon with the public^ He vindicates himself... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1812 - 544 pages
...says Dr. Johnson in his life of Pope, " was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his profession, versed in the sciences,, acquainted with ancient literature,...the crowd of life, retained and discovered a noble ardour of religious zeal." Dr. Warton also is very copious in his praise, and says, that he had infinitely... | |
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Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his profession, versed in the sciences, acquainted with ancient literature, and able to animate his mass of knowledge by a bright and active imagination; a scholar with great brilliance of wit; a... 
