| Popular encyclopedia - 1846 - 924 pages
...Johnson's life of Pope, is justified by the testimony of his contemporaries and of his works : — " Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension ; skilful...ancient literature, and able to animate his mass of kiiowlinlge by a bright and active imagination ; a scholar, with great brilliance of wit ; a wit, who,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 904 pages
...comprehension, skilful in his profession, versed in the sciences, acquainted with ancient literature, nnd 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 life, retained nnd discovered a noble ardour of religious... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 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 nrdonr of religious zeal. In this poem Pope seems to reckon with the public. He vindicates himself... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 360 pages
...servant." " Arbuthnot," Johnson says, " 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." Dugald Stewart has testified to Arbuthnot's ability in a department of which... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 pages
...servant." " Arbuthnot," Johnson says, " 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." Dugald Stewart has testified to Arbuthnot's ability in a department of which... | |
| Hugh James Rose - 1853 - 528 pages
...profession, versed in the sciences, acquainted with ancient literature, and able to animate his knowledge hy a bright and active imagination ; a scholar with great...the crowd of life retained and discovered a noble ardour of religious zeal." Arbuthnot's Letters to Swift and to Pope fully develop his character, and... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 344 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... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1854 - 306 pages
...servant." " Arbuthnot," Johnson says, " 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." Dugald Stewart has testified to Arbuthnot's ability in a department o'f... | |
| William Munk - 1861 - 458 pages
...virtues. '" He was," says Dr. Johnson, " 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." Swift said of him, "that he was a man who could do everything but walk;"... | |
| Royal College of Physicians of London - 1861 - 474 pages
...religious virtues. " He was," says Dr. Johnson, " 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." Swift said of him, " that he was a man who could do everything but walk;"... | |
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