 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1882 - 878 páginas
...Heron. His piece was brought upon the stage, and damned, " as it is phrased," in the second act ; but the author, thinking that it had been unfairly and...to so zealous a churchman as Mr. Sadler. A certain Antinomian preacher, the oracle of a barn, in a county of which we do not think it proper to mention... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 494 páginas
...thoughts are taken up with the actions, persons, and events we read, and we little regard the authors. When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Men who possess all the advantages of life,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 496 páginas
...thoughts are taken up with the actions, persons, and events we read, and we little regard the authors. When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Men who possess all the advantages of life,... | |
 | Eugen Kölbing, Johannes Hoops, Reinald Hoops - 1883 - 502 páginas
...not be drawne by the eares, it must bee gently led, or rather, it must lead. Sidney. Def. 62. (A.) 2) When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Swift. Var. Thoughts. 3) Junius begs me to... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1883 - 488 páginas
...thoughts are taken up with the actions, persons, and events we read, and we little regard the authors. When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Men who possess all the advantages of life,... | |
 | 1884 - 532 páginas
...to me to be alive and talking to me. Sometimes I read a book with pleasure, and detest the author. When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.— Thoughts on Various Subjects. WILLIAM... | |
 | Book-lover - 1884 - 530 páginas
...to me to be alive and talking to me. Sometimes I read a book with pleasure, and detest the author. When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. — Thoughts on Various Subjects. WILLIAM... | |
 | Truths - 1885 - 572 páginas
...always full, the latter only now and then, when their Suns are shining full upon them. iOrmilD. — Swift. WHEN a true Genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the Dunces are all in confederacy against him. ifirmus'. — Sir J. Reynolds. plENIUS is... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1886 - 222 páginas
...thoughts are taken up with the actions, persons, and events we read, and we little regard the authors. When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Men who possess all the advantages of life,... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - 1887 - 572 páginas
...thoughts are taken up with the actions, persons, and events we read, and we little regard the authors. but a solitary instance of good fortune out of many irreparable sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Men who possess all the advantages of life... | |
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When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this mark — that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. 
