 | 1733 - 136 pages
...refledted, after a night fpent with him apart from all the world, that I had had the pleafure of converfing with an intimate acquaintance of Terence and Catullus,...their wit and nature heightened with humour, more exquifite and delightful than any other man ever poflefled. They who fliall read this Play after being... | |
 | 742 pages
...reflected, after a night fpent with him, apart from all the world, that I had had the pleafure of converting with an intimate acquaintance of Terence and Catullus,...their wit and nature, heightened with humour more exquifue and delightful than any other man ever ppflclTtd. They who fhnll read this play, after being... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele - 1787 - 264 pages
...refledted, after a night fpent with him, apart from all the world, that I had had the pleafure of converfing with an intimate acquaintance of Terence and Catullus,,...their wit and nature heightened •with humour, more exquifite and delightful than any other man ever poffefled. They who fhall read this play, after being... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele - 1787 - 560 pages
...apart from all the world, that * See this, in p. 458. I had had the- pleafure of. converfing with~an. intimate acquaintance of Terence and Catullus, who...their wit -and nature heightened with humour, more exquifite and delightful than any other man ever .poffefled. They who fhall read this play-, after... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 444 pages
...after a night fpent with him apart from " all the world, that I had had the pleafure of con" verfmg with an intimate acquaintance of Terence; " and Catullus,...their wit and nature, " heightened with humour more exquifite and de* { lightful than any other man ever poflefled." This is the fondnefs of a friend •,... | |
 | 1793 - 738 pages
...{pent with him apart from all the woilti, that I had had the pleafure of converfing with an ÎBtinme acquaintance of Terence and Catullus, who had all their wit and nature, heightened with humour more exquihte and delightful than any other man ever poUcfled.' This ia ihe fondnefs of a friend; let us... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1794 - 450 pages
...after a night fpent with " him apart from all the world, that I had " had the pleafure of converting with an " intimate acquaintance of Terence and ** Catullus, who had all their wit and na** ture, heightened with humotr more ex" quitite and delightful than &qy other " man ever poflefled."... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1797 - 278 pages
...reflected, after a night fpent with him apart from all the world, that I had the pleafure of converfing with an intimate acquaintance of Terence and Catullus,...all their wit and nature heightened with humour more exquifite and delightful ful than any other man ever poffefled. This, is the fondnefs of a friend ;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 424 pages
...after a night fpent with him apart from " all the world, that I had had the pleafure of con*' verfing with an intimate acquaintance of Terence " and Catullus, who had all their wit and nature, ft heightened with humour more exquifite and de" lightful than any other man ever poifeired." This... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 536 pages
...the world, that I had had the plealure of con" verfing with an intimate acquaintance of Terence *f and Catullus, who had all their wit and nature, *' heightened with humour more exquifite and de*' lightful than any other man ever poffeffed." This is the fondnels of a friend ;... | |
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The time in which he lived had reason to lament his obstinacy of silence, 'for he was,' says Steele, 'above all men in that talent called humour, and enjoyed it in such perfection that I have often reflected, after a night spent with him apart from all... 
