 | 1865 - 644 Seiten
...If I have thoughts, and can't express them, Gibbon shall teach me how to dress them In language neat and terse ; Jones teach me modesty and Greek, Smith...think, Burke how to speak, And Beauclerk to converse." 130 SELECTIONS FROM CALCUTTA GAZETTES. [1794. " the British Territories in India, together with their... | |
 | Frederick Locker- Lampson - 1867 - 428 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;...borrow'd grace, From him I'll learn to write: Copy his free and easy style, And from the roughness of his file Grow, like himself, polite. Dr. Barnard, of... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1867 - 432 Seiten
...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;...borrow'd grace, From him I'll learn to write: Copy his free and easy style, And from the roughness of his file Grow, like himself, polite. Dr. Barnard, of... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1867 - 410 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;...borrow'd grace, From him I'll learn to write: Copy his free and easy style, And from the roughness of his file Grow, like himself, polite. WHEN Molly smiles... | |
 | Frederick Locker- Lampson - 1867 - 380 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...borrow'd grace. From him I'll learn to write : Copy his free and easy style, And from the roughness of his file Grow, like himself, polite. WHEN Molly smiles... | |
 | Sir Charles Lock Eastlake - 1870 - 364 Seiten
...you " alluded to. It is not the greatest names that make the " most brilliant society. In the lines ' Smith how to " 'think, Burke how to speak, and Beauclerk to converse,' " of the whole catalogue there is but the last who, it seems, " was an agreeable talker. Sir Joshua... | |
 | Sir Charles Lock Eastlake - 1870 - 404 Seiten
...you " alluded to. It is not the greatest names that make the " most brilliant society. In the lines ' Smith how to " 'think, Burke how to speak, and Beauclerk to converse,' " of the whole catalogue there is but the last who, it seems, " was an agreeable talker. Sir Joshua... | |
 | James Boswell - 1873 - 620 Seiten
...different perfections from dînèrent men. They concluded with delicate irony :— * Johnson shall teach me how to place In fairest light each borrow'd grace ; From him I'll learn to write,— Сорт his clear, familiar style, And, by the roughness of his file. Grow, like hinauf, peilte Г... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 584 Seiten
...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...In fairest light each borrow'd grace; From him I'll leam to write : Copy his free and easy style, And from the roughness of his file Grow, like himself,... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1878 - 386 Seiten
...powers : 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...; Burke, how to speak ; And Beauclerk to converse. Hawkins writes, 'His conversation was of the most excellent kind; learned, witty, polite, and where... | |
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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,... 
