 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 342 страници
...seem to have made the strongest impression on his contemporaries. By Dryden he is described as IS' "oT piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies." His oratory is utterly and irretrievably lost to us, like that of Somers, of Bolingbroke, of Charles... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1851 - 854 страници
...possession of authority. The unbridled * Temple, Memoirs, part iii. t Dedication to King Arthur. Î " Jotham, of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued...nature and by learning taught To move assemblies; who but only tried The worse awhile, then chose the better side; Nor chose alone, but turn'd the balance... | |
 | 1852 - 780 страници
...made the strongest impression on his contemporaries. By Dryden he is described as « " Of pterclng whole breadth of the way, to slop the journey of Christian, and where afterwards His oratory is utterly and irretrievably lost to ns, like that of Somers, of Bolingbroke, of Charles... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - 1854 - 264 страници
...tinder any restraint, Halifax coalesced with Nottingham, and the church party gained a new advocate — Jotham( of piercing wit, and pregnant thought, Endued by nature, and by learning taught To move assemblles.— DRYUEN.* The inconstancy, however, which Halifax had several times exhibited was not... | |
 | John Dryden - 1854 - 324 страници
...piercing wit, and pregnant thought; Endued by nature, and by learning taught, To move assemblies, who but only tried The worse awhile, then chose the better side : Nor chose alone, but turned the balance too; So much the weight of one brave man can do. Hushai, the friend of David in... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1854 - 588 страници
...England." Duke of York to Mr. Legge, supra. f Temple, Memoirs, part iii. j Dedication to King Arthur. § " Jotham, of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught of advancement, he availed himself for a time with little scruple and with some success. But he never... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 770 страници
...voice, seem to have made the strongest impression on his contemporaries. By Dryden he is described as " Of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies." His oratory is utterly and irretrievably lost to us, like that of Somers, of Bolingbroke, of Charles... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1874 - 434 страници
...circles, and, above all, in the House of Lords, that his ascendency was felt.' Dryden paints Halifax — ' Of piercing wit and pregnant thought ; Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies.' Such was the contemporary impression of Halifax, whose oratory is utterly lost ; but we nowhere read... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 страници
...seem to have made the strongest impression on his contemporaries. By Dryden he is described as "ОГ piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies." His oratory is utterly and irretrievably lost to us, like that of Somers, of Bolingbroke, of Charles... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1008 страници
...voice, seem to have made the strongest impression on his contemporaries. By Dryden he is described as " of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies." His oratory is utterly and irretrievably lost to us, like that of Somers, of Bolingbroke, of Charles... | |
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Jotham of piercing wit and pregnant thought, Endued by nature and by learning taught To move assemblies... 
