| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 532 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,...bright and active imagination; a scholar with great brilliancy of wit; a wit, who, in the crowd of life, retained and discovered a nohie ardour of religious... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 446 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 Pope - 1826 - 396 pages
...and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his profession, s madm N , nuble ardour of religious zeal. In this poem Pope seems to reckon with the publicIle vindicates himself... | |
| 1826 - 434 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,...bright and active imagination; a scholar with great brilliancy of wit; a wit, who in the crowd of life, retained and discovered a noble ardour of religious... | |
| Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1829 - 666 pages
...Johnson's life of Pope, iä justified by the testimony of his contemporaries nud of his works : — " A. was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his practice,...imagination ; a scholar, with great brilliance of wit ; n wit, who, in the crowd of life, retained and discovered a noble ardor of religious zeal ; a man... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...Arbuthuot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his profession, versed in the sciences, ac quaintcd dis covered a noble ardour of religious /.cal. In this poem Pope si-ems to reckon with the public.... | |
| Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 548 pages
...Hampstead. John Scott, 1821. d. ChalkFarm. He was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his profession, versed in the sciences, acquainted with ancient literature,...by a bright and active imagination ; a scholar with reat brilliancy of wit ; a wit who in the crowd of life, retained and discovered a noble ardour of... | |
| John Burke - 1833 - 268 pages
...his piety. Arbnthnot," he continues, " was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his profession, versed in the sciences, acquainted with ancient literature,...bright and active imagination ; a scholar, with great brilliancy of wit , a wit, who, in the crowd of life, retained and discovered a noble ardour of religious... | |
| John Burke - 1833 - 264 pages
...Arbuthnot," he continues, " was a man of great comprebension, skilful in his profession, versed ;n the sciences, acquainted with ancient literature,...bright and active imagination ; a scholar, with great brilliancy of wit ; a wit, who, in the crowd of life, retained and discovered a noble ardour of religious... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 pages
...and venerable for lis piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his profession, versed in the sciences, acquainted with ancient literature,...able to animate his mass of knowledge by a bright and ictive imagination ; a scholar with great briliance of wit ; a wit who, in the crowd of life, 'etained... | |
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