 But how little can we venture to exult in any intellectual powers or literary attainments, when we consider the condition of poor Collins. I knew him a few years ago, full of hopes and full of projects, versed in many languages, high in fancy, and strong...  La Belle Assemblée - Página 311807Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Henry Francis Cary - 1846 - 436 páginas
...years ago, full of hopes and full of projects, versed in many languages, high in fancy, and strong in retention. This busy and forcible mind is now under...comprehend the least and most narrow of its designs. — March 8, 1754. Poor dear Collins. Let me know whether you think it would give him pleasure that... | |
 | Henry Francis Cary - 1846 - 436 páginas
...years ago, full of hopes and full of projects, versed in many languages, high in fancy, and strong in retention. This busy and forcible mind is now under...able to comprehend the least and most narrow of its designs.—March 8,1754. Poor dear Collins. Let me know whether you think it would give him pleasure... | |
 | Henry Francis Cary - 1846 - 462 páginas
...hopes and full of projects, versed in many languages, high in fancy, and strong in retention. This husy and forcible mind is now under the government of those...comprehend the least and most narrow of its designs. — March 8, 1754. Poor dear Collins. Let me know whether you think it would give him pleasure that... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 páginas
...years ago full of hopes and I'uil of projects, versed In many languages, high in fancy, and strong in retention. This busy and forcible mind is now under...of its designs. What do you hear of him ? are there hones of his recovery ? or is he to pass the remainder of his life in misery and degradation — perhaps... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 602 páginas
...years ago full of hopes and full of projects, versed in many languages, high in fancy, and strong in retention. This busy and forcible mind is now under...most narrow of its designs. What do you hear of him 1 are there any hopes of his recovery? or is he to pass the remainder of his life in misery and degradation... | |
 | Robert Armitage - 1850 - 562 páginas
...the folly of exulting in any intellectual powers, when the condition of poor Collins is beheld,— "This busy and forcible mind is now under the government...comprehend the least and most narrow of its designs [" As in his Life of Savage, so in that of Collins, the charitable mind of Johnson is ever prominent;... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1853 - 626 páginas
...years ago full of hopes and full of projects, versed in many languages, high in fancy, and strong in retention. This busy and forcible mind is now under...of its designs. What do you hear of him ? are there any hopes of his recovery ? or is he to pass the remainder of his life in misery and degradation—perhaps... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 588 páginas
...hopes and full of projects, versed in many languages, high in fancy, and strong in retention. This buey and forcible mind is now under the government of those...comprehend the least and most narrow of its designs." Again, the next year, Johnson wrote : " Poor, dear Collins ! Let me know whether you think it would... | |
 | William Collins - 1854 - 430 páginas
...years ago, full of hopes and full of projects, versed in many languages, high in fancy, and strong in retention. This busy and forcible mind is now under...most narrow of its designs. What do you hear of him 1 are there hopes of his recovery 1 or is ho to pass the remainder of his life in misery and degradation... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, William Collins, George Gilfillan, Thomas Warton - 1854 - 354 páginas
...ago, full of hopes and full of projects — versed in many languages, high in fancy, and strong in retention. This busy and forcible mind is now under...comprehend the least and most narrow of its designs. Poor dear Collins ! I have often been near his state, and have it, therefore, in great commiseration."... | |
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