 | Richard Valpy French - 1884 - 446 էջ
...himself superior, will desire to set loose his powers of conversation ; and who that ever asked succours from Bacchus was able to preserve himself from being enslaved by his auxiliary ? And yet this was the man who could declare that ' temperance and abstinence, faith and devotion, are in... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer - 1889 - 358 էջ
...himself superior, will desire to set loose his powers of conversation, and who, that ever asked succour from Bacchus, was able to preserve himself from being enslaved by his auxiliary ? " Sheridan, we are told, did not display his intellectual powers in company till he had been warmed... | |
 | Spectator, Sir Richard Steele - 1876 - 324 էջ
...himself superior, will desire to set loose the powers of conversation ; and who, that ever asked succor from Bacchus, was able to preserve himself from being enslaved by his auxiliary ? " Addison's style has been admired and coveted by every writer who came after him. Dr. Johnson, whose... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1890 - 474 էջ
...himself superior, will desire to set loose his powers of conversation ; and who, that ever asked succour from Bacchus, was able to preserve himself from being enslaved by his auxiliary? Among those friends it was that Addison displayed the elegance of his colloquial accomplishments, which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1893 - 152 էջ
...himself superior, will desire to set loose his powers of conversation ; and who, that ever asked succour from Bacchus, was able to preserve himself from being enslaved by his auxiliary ? 10 Among those friends it was that Addison displayed the elegance of his colloquial accomplishments,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - 1900 - 318 էջ
...superior, will desire to set loose his powers of conversation ; and who that ever asked 5 succours from Bacchus was able to preserve himself from being enslaved by his auxiliary? Among those friends it was that Addison displayed the elegance of his colloquial accomplishments, which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 էջ
...those to whom he knows himself superior, 5 will desire to set loose his powers of conversation; and who that ever asked succors from Bacchus was able to preserve himself from being enslaved by his auxiliary ? Among those friends it was that Addison displayed the elegance of his colloquial accomplishments,... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1910 - 776 էջ
...himself superior, will desire to set loose his powers of conversation; and who, that ever asked succour Among those friends it was that Addison displayed the elegance of his colloquial accomplishments, which... | |
 | Charles W - 1910 - 466 էջ
...himself superior, will desire to set loose his powers of conversation ; and who, that ever asked succor from Bacchus, was able to preserve himself from being enslaved by his auxiliary? Among those friends it was that Addison displayed the elegance of his colloquial accomplishments, which... | |
 | James Boswell - 1928 - 390 էջ
...ibid., 2. 498; 4. 84, 172 n. 2; Hebr., 244; and Johnson's Life of Addison: Who, that ever asked succours from Bacchus, was able to preserve himself from being enslaved by his auxiliary ? 8 Anacreontea, 8. 31. In the magazine text |J.avfjvcu was given without the accent, and $£X(0 was... | |
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... that Addison was first seduced to excess by the manumission which he obtained from the servile timidity of his sober hours. He that feels oppression from the presence of those to whom he knows himself superior will desire to set loose his powers of... 
