 | Cecil Headlam - 1897 - 348 pages
...genius, by continual practice, has been wholly turned upon raillery and invectives against religion, and would therefore never be able to shine or distinguish...the great decline of wit among us, and would we take the greatest, perhaps the only topick we have left ? who would have ever suspected Asgyll for a wit,... | |
 | Cecil Headlam - 1897 - 346 pages
...genius, by continual practice, has been wholly turned upon raillery and invectives against religion, and would therefore never be able to shine or distinguish...the great decline of wit among us, and would we take the greatest, perhaps the only topick we have left ? who would have ever suspected Asgyll for a wit,... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1897 - 448 pages
...genius by continual practice hath been wholly turned upon raillery and invectives against religion, and would therefore never be able to shine or distinguish...are daily complaining of the great decline of wit nmong us, and would we take away the greatest, perhaps the only topic we have left ? Who would ever... | |
 | Percy Dearmer - 1898 - 396 pages
...Genius, by continual Practice, hath been wholly turned upon Raillery and Invectives against Religion, and would therefore never be able to shine or distinguish...would we take away the greatest, perhaps the only Topick we have left ? Who would ever have suspected ASGILL for a Wit, or TOLAJTD for a Philosopher,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1901 - 296 pages
...by continual practice, has been wholly turned upon raillery and invectives against 30 religion, and would therefore never be able to shine or distinguish...topic we have left? who would ever have suspected Asgill for a wit, or Toland for a philosopher, if the inexhaustible stock 5 of Christianity had not... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 860 pages
...invectives againsi religion, and would, therefore, be never able to shine or distinguish themselves on Asgill for a wit, or Toland for a philosopher, if the in exhaustible stock of Christianity had not... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 864 pages
...invectives against religion, and would, therefore, be never able to shine or distinguish themselves on veؘ ! Asgill for a wit, or Toland for a philosopher, if the inexhaustible stock of Christianity had not been... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1905 - 528 pages
...has been wholly turned upon raillery and invectives Lives of the Poets: Swift. against religion, and would therefore never be able to shine or distinguish...greatest, perhaps the only topic we have left ? Who would have suspected Asgil - for a wit, or Toland for a philosopher, if the inexhaustible stock of Christianity... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1905 - 470 pages
...invectives against religion, and woulil, thercfore, lie never able lo shine or distinguish themselves on any other subject? We are daily complaining of the great decline of wit among us, and would w take away the greatest, perhaps the only lopic we have left? Et, puisque c'est cinquante fois plus... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1908 - 528 pages
...invectives, against religion, and would, therefore, never be able to shine or distinguish themselves upou any other subject! we are daily complaining of the...the greatest, perhaps the only topic we have left?" 1 " I do very much apprehend, that in six months time after the act is passed for the extirpation of... | |
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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... 
