 | Edwin Reed - Stratford-upon-Avon (England) - 1907 - 84 pages
...product of the spontaneous hand of nature, with no help from art." — Joseph Addison. " Being without education, or experience in those great and public scenes of life which were usually the subject of his thought, he seems to have known the world by intuition." — Jonathan... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...most pertinent and judicious upon every subject, but, by a talent very peculiar, something between penetration and felicity, he hits upon that particular...are usually the subject of his thoughts; so that he seems to have known the world by intuition, to have looked through human nature at one glance, and... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 752 pages
...most pertinent and judicious upon every subject, but, by a talent very peculiar, something between penetration and felicity, he hits upon that particular...are usually the subject of his thoughts; so that he seems to have known the world by intuition, to have looked through human nature at one glance, and... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 pages
...most pertinent and judicious upon every subject, but, by a talent very peculiar, something between penetration and felicity, he hits upon that particular...are usually the subject of his thoughts; so that he seems to have known the world by intuition, to have looked through human nature at one glance, and... | |
 | Henry Pemberton, Mrs. Susan Lovering Pemberton - Shakespearian authorship - 1914 - 302 pages
...character, such power over the passions, such reflection and reasoning upon every subject should proceed " from a man of no education or experience in those...life which are usually the subject of his thoughts." The knowledge we now have of the personal life of Shakspere renders incredible that which Pope, with... | |
 | Henry Pemberton - 1914 - 278 pages
...character, such power over the passions, such reflection and reasoning upon every subject should proceed " from a man of no education or experience in those...life which are usually the subject of his thoughts." The knowledge we now have of the personal life of Shakspere renders incredible that which Pope, with... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English literature - 1917 - 648 pages
...the most pertinent and judicious upon every subject; but by a talent very peculiar, something between penetration and felicity, he hits' upon that particular point on which the bent of every argument turns, or the force of each motive depends. This is perfectly amazing, from a man of... | |
 | 1761 - 438 pages
...moft pertinent and judicious upon every fubjefl ; but, by a talent very peculiar, fomething between penetration and felicity, he hits upon that particular...amazing, from a man of no education, or experience in thofe great and public fcenes of life which are ufually the fubjefl of his thoughts ; fo that he feems... | |
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His sentiments are not only in general the most pertinent and judicious upon every subject; but by a talent very peculiar, something between penetration and felicity, he hits upon that particular point on which the bent of each argument turns, or the... 
