 | Charlotte Brontë - 1995 - 866 pages
...in spite of the repeated help of friends, he lived recklessly and died in want. Johnson concludes, 'Negligence and Irregularity, long continued, will...useless. Wit ridiculous, and Genius contemptible.' Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816), the brilliant playwright and parliamentary orator, was extravagant,... | |
 | Catherine Neal Parke - 2002 - 210 pages
...who, in confidence of superior capacities or attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, shall be reminded that nothing will supply the want of prudence,...make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.1 Johnson offers no simple, complacent moral. Here, as in his other major biographical... | |
 | Carl Edmund Rollyson - 2005 - 321 pages
...who, in confidence of superior capacities or attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, shall be reminded that nothing will supply the want of prudence,...useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible. BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON (1791) James Boswell's depiction of his friend and mentor Samuel Johnson—widely... | |
 | Helga Schwalm - 2007 - 422 pages
...Ende klingt die Funktion des Exemplarischen noch einmal an. Der Biograph schließt mit den Worten: "nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that...make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible."254 Gleichzeitig aber geht Savage nicht in diesem Exemplum auf, und zwar in zweifachem... | |
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... nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible. 
