 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 446 ページ
...Blenheim.' He was a v«y early writer, both in verse and prose. His 'Progress of love,' and his' Persian Letters,' were both written when he was very young ; and indeed the character of a young man is very visible in both. The Verses cant of shepherds and flocks, and crooks dressed with flowers ; .nul the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 ページ
...Blenheim." He was a very early writer, both in verse and prose. His " Progress of Love," and his "Persian discriminate every man from all others, if they are not recorded by those whom personal knowledge en visible in both. The Verses cant of shepherds and flocks, and crooks dressed with flowers ; and the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 ページ
...Blenheim.' He was a very early writer, both in verse and prose. His ' Progress of Love,' and his * Persian Letters,' were both written when he was very young; and indeed the character of a young man is very visible in boih. The verses cant of shepherds and flocks, and crooks dressed witli flowers ; and the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 344 ページ
...Blenheim. He was a very early writer, both in verse and prose. His Progress of Love and his Persian Letters^ were both written when he was very young ; and indeed the character of a young man is very visible in both. The verses cant of shepherds and flocks, and crooks dressed with flowers ; and the... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1854 - 366 ページ
...exhibiting, as if in proof of Dr. Johnson's notable averment, " something of that indistinct and headstrong ardour for liberty which a man of genius always catches when he enters the world, and always suffers to cool as he passes forward." * On the 4th of July appeared the first number of the " Iris,"... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1856 - 482 ページ
...Lettres Persannes " of MONTESQUIEU : " The letters have something of that indistinct and headstrong ardour for liberty which a man of genius always catches when he enters the world, and always suffers to cool as he passes forward." But what the same sturdy writer says in his " Life of POPE "... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1861 - 660 ページ
...was a very early writer, both in verse and prose. His ' Progress of Love ' [1732], and his ' Persian Letters,' were both written when he was very young ; and indeed the charater of a young man is very visible in both." The verses cant of shepherds and flocks, and crooks... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1868 - 828 ページ
...never turns to day." Dr. Johnson ("Life of Lyttelton") speaks of "that indistinct and headstrong ardor for liberty which a man of genius always catches when he enters the world, and always suffers to cool as he passes forward." He might well have said this of the English man of genius. Southey,... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1868 - 844 ページ
...never turne to day." Dr. Johnson ("Life of Lyttelton") speaks of "that indistinct and headstrong ardor for liberty which a man of genius always catches when he enters the world, and always suffers to cool as he passes forward." He might well have said this of the English man of genius. Southey,... | |
 | William Clark Russell - 1871 - 550 ページ
...Lord Lyttleton — Paul Whitehead. 223 the letters have something of that indistinct and headstrong ardour for liberty which a man of genius always catches when he enters the world, and always suffers to cool as he passes forward. — Johnson. One of those little fellows who are sometimes called... | |
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The verses cant of shepherds and flocks, and crooks dressed with flowers ; and the letters have something of that indistinct and headstrong ardour for liberty which a man of genius always catches when he enters the world and always suffers to cool as... 
