 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 576 pages
...wonderful productions of wit should we be deprived of from those whose genius, by continual practice, hath nciples by which all minds are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in m be never able to shine or distinguish themselves on any other subject? We are daily complaining of... | |
 | John Morrison Davidson - Great Britain - 1880 - 274 pages
...and improve their talents and divert their spleen from falling on each other or on themselves. . . . We are daily complaining of the great decline of wit...the greatest, perhaps the only, topic we have left ? " Well, if there are any such great wits about who have a desire to exercise their talents in this... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...wonderful productions of wit should we be deprived of from those whose genius, by continual practice, hath it whatever is superfluous. Nature seems to have taken a particular care to disseminate ! \Ve are daily complaining of the great decline of wit among us, and would take away the greatest,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1881 - 842 pages
...wonderful productions of wit should we be deprived of from those who-*; genius, by continual practice, hath been wholly turned upon raillery and invectives against religion, and would, therefore, be never able to shine or distinguish themselves on any other subject? We arc daily complaining of... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 502 pages
...wonderful productions of wit should we be deprived of, from those whose genius, by continual practice, has been wholly turned upon raillery and invectives against...topic we have left ? who would ever have suspected Asgil for a wit, or Toland for a philosopher, if the inexhaustible stock of Christianity had not been... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 514 pages
...product tions of wit should we be deprived of, from those whose genius, by continual practice, has been wholly turned upon raillery and invectives against...are daily complaining of the great decline of wit among-us, and would we take away the greatest, perhaps the only, topic we hav£ left ? who_woiild e'ver... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1883 - 490 pages
...wonderful productions of wit should we be deprived of, from those, whose genius, by continual practice, has been wholly turned upon raillery and invectives, against...shine or distinguish themselves upon any other subject 1 we are daily complaining of the great de.'ine of wit among us, and would we take away the greatest,... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1883 - 516 pages
...wonderful productious of wit should we be deprived of from those whose genins, by continual practice, hath been wholly turned upon raillery and invectives against religion, and would, therefore, be never able to shine or distinguish themselves on any other subject? We are daily complaining of... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1884 - 334 pages
...by continual practice has been wholly turned upon raillery and invectives against religion, and who would therefore never be able to shine or distinguish...topic we have left ? Who would ever have suspected Asgil for a wit, or Toland for a philosopher, if the inexhaustible stock of Christianity had not been... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Stanley Lane-Poole - 1884 - 342 pages
...by continual practice has been wholly turned upon raillery and invectives against religion, and who would therefore never be able to shine or distinguish...topic we have left ? Who would ever have suspected Asgil for a wit, or Toland for a philosopher, if the inexhaustible stock of Christianity had not been... | |
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... to display their abilities? What wonderful productions of wit should we be deprived of, from those whose genius by continual practice hath been wholly turned upon raillery and invectives against religion, and would therefore never be able to shine... 
