 | William Cook - 1806 - 282 Seiten
...backward. If I have thoughts, and can't express 'em, Gibbon shall teach me how to dress 'em In terms select and terse ; Jones teach me modesty and Greek ; Smith how to think, Burke how to speak. And Beauclerc to converse. Let Johnson teach me how to place In fairest light eachborrow'd grace; From... | |
 | 1808 - 506 Seiten
...thirty more. If I have thoughts and can't express 'em, Gibbons shall teach me how to dress 'em, In terms select and terse ^ Jones teach me modesty and Greek, Smith how to think, Burke how to speak, And Beauclerc to converse. Let Johnson teach me how to place, In fairest light, each borrowed grace, From... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1811 - 620 Seiten
...friends." If I have thoughts, and can't express 'em, Gibbon shall teach me how to dress 'em In words select and terse: Jones teach me modesty and Greek, Smith how to think, Bnrkc how to speak, And Beanclerc to converse *. * See Annual Register for the year 1776. ; In consequence... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 408 Seiten
...learn different perfections from different men. They concluded with delicate irony: " Johnson shall teach me how to place In fairest light each borrow'd...learn to write: Copy his clear familiar style, And by the roughness of his file Grow, like himself, polite." I know not whether Johnson ever saw the Poem,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 412 Seiten
...learn different perfections from different men. They concluded with delicate irony: " Johnson shall teach me how to place In fairest light each borrow'd grace; From him I 1 !! leam to write: Copy his clear familiar ctyle, And by the roughness of his file Grow, like himself,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 520 Seiten
...learn different perfections; from different men. They concluded with delicate irony: " Johnson shall teach me how to place " In fairest light each borrow'd...to write : " Copy his clear familiar style, " And by the roughness of his file " Grow, like himself, polite." I know not whether Johnson ever saw the... | |
 | John Bull - 1825 - 782 Seiten
...Beauclerc to converse. Let Johnson teach me how to place In fairest light each borrow'd grace ; In terms select and terse ; Jones teach me modesty and Greek ; Smith how to think, Bi-ikc how to speak, From him I'll loom to write : -Copy his clear familiar style ; And, from the roughness... | |
 | Richard Ryan - 1826 - 320 Seiten
...and terse ; Jones teach me modesty and Greek, Smith howto think, Burke how to speak, And Beauclerc to converse. Let Johnson teach me how to place In...style, And, from the roughness of his file, Grow, like himself, polite. * Garrick, being asked to read Cumberland's Odes, laughed heartily, and affirmed that... | |
 | Richard Ryan - 1826 - 328 Seiten
...thirty more. If I have thoughts and can't express 'em, Gibbon shall teach me how to dress 'em In terms select and terse ; Jones teach me modesty and Greek, Smith how to think, Burke how to speak, AndBeauclerc to converse. Let Johnson teach me how to place In fairest light each borrow'd grace :... | |
 | Richard Ryan - 1826 - 330 Seiten
...thirty more. If I have thoughts and can't express 'em, Gibbon shall teach me how to dress 'em In terms select and terse ; Jones teach me modesty and Greek, Smith how to think, Burke how to speak, AndBeauclerc to converse. Let Johnson teach me how to place In fairest light each borrow'd grace :... | |
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select and terse ; . - ; Jones teach me modesty and Greek, : • Smith how to think, Burke how to speak, And Beauclerk To converse. Let Johnson teach me how to place, In fairest light, each borrow'd grace, From him I'll learn to write; Copy his clear,... 
