| Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 486 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...that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Men who possess all the advantages of life, are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder... | |
| 1831 - 576 páginas
...unjustly ' rundown,' published it, in order to put his critics to shame, with this motto from Swift : 1 When a true genius appears in the world, you may know ' him by this mark— that the dunces are all in confederacy ' against him.' We remember another anecdote, which... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 438 páginas
...with the actions, persons, and events we read, and we little regard the authors. When a true genins 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, are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 386 páginas
...persons, aud events we read, and we little regard the authors. When a true genins appears in the worM, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Men who possess all the advantages of life, ai« in a state where there are many accidents to disorder... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 562 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...that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Men who possess all the advantages of life, are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder... | |
| Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 558 páginas
...events we read, and we little regard the authors. When a true genius appears in the world, you jnay know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Men who possess all the advantages of life, are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder... | |
| Thomas Murray - 1822 - 402 páginas
...should lose the honour of it. This is exactly my situation !" The other is from Dean Swift : " Wh|na true genius appears in the world, you may know him...that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." Nor did these works, voluminous as they are, engross all his time and attention. He was long employed... | |
| John Timbs - 1829 - 354 páginas
...brightness on their memory than you received from them. Dry den — To the Duke of Ormond. DCCCCXXX. When a true genius appears in the world, you may know...that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. — Swift. DCCCCXXXI. Scandal. I was an infidel to your sex, and you have converted me; for now I am... | |
| Laconics - 1829 - 358 páginas
...more brightness on their memory than you received from them. Dryden—To the Duke of Ormend. DCCCCXXX. When a true genius appears in the world, you may know...sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.—Swift. DCCCCXXXI. Scandal. I was an infidel to your sex, and you have converted me; for now... | |
| 1829 - 126 páginas
...fire. When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me. When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are in confederacy against him. A good word is as soon said as a bad one. If a man would register all his... | |
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