 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1884 - 668 pages
...wit ; and we have some tolerable ban-mots of his, handed down by his contemporaries. Burnet says, " The liveliness of his imagination was always too hard...jest to make even that which was suggested by himself ridiculous, he could not hold, but would study to raise the credit of his wit, though it made others... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1897 - 666 pages
...hard for his judgment. A severe CHAP. Xil. jest was preferred by him to all arguments whatsoever ; and he was endless in consultations. For when after...his wit, though it made others call his judgment in question1. When he talked to me as a philosopher of his contempt of the world, I asked him what he... | |
 | Helen Charlotte Foxcroft - Great Britain - 1898 - 614 pages
...was always too hard for his judgment. A severe jest was preferred by him to all arguments whatsoever. And he was endless in consultations : for when after...discourse a point was settled, if he could find a new jest,6 to make even that which was suggested by himself i. 491, 492), ' than when he was turning bishop... | |
 | Helen Charlotte Foxcroft, George Savile Marquis of Halifax - Great Britain - 1898 - 608 pages
...was always too hard for his judgment. A severe jest was preferred by him to all arguments whatsoever. And he was endless in consultations : for when after much discourse a point was settled, if he could rind a new jest,6 to make even that which was suggested by himself i. 491, 492), ' than when he was... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - Great Britain - 1918 - 396 pages
...was always too hard for his judgment. A severe jest was preferred by him to all arguments whatsoever. And he was endless in consultations : For when after much discourse a point was settled, if he could 10 find a new jest, to make even that which was suggested by himself seem ridiculous, he could not... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - English wit and humor - 1919 - 334 pages
...same charge, and with much better right, was laid against his grandson, the Earl of Chesterfield.] And he was endless in consultations: for when after...credit of his wit, though it made others call his judgement in question. [The Bishop does not tell us, what we know from the Marquis's son, that he was... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - American literature - 1919 - 336 pages
...same charge, and with much better right, was laid against his grandson, the Earl of Chesterfield.] And he was endless in consultations: for when after...credit of his wit, though it made others call his judgement in question. [The Bishop does not tell us, what we know from the Marquis's son, that he was... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1919 - 322 pages
...grandson, the Earl of Chesterfield.] And he was endless in consultations: for when after much discourse aT point was settled, if he could find a new jest, to...credit of his wit, though it made others call his judgement in question. [The Bishop does not tell us, what we know from the Marquis's son, that he was... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - English wit and humor - 1919 - 336 pages
...the Earl of Chesterfield.] And he was endless in consultations: for when after much discourse a;point was settled, if he could find a new jest, to make...credit of his wit, though it made others call his judgement in question. [The Bishop does not tell us, what we know from the Marquis's son, that he was... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - English wit and humor - 1919 - 334 pages
...the Earl of Chesterfield.] And he was endless in consultations: for when after much discourse a'point was settled, if he could find a new jest, to make...credit of his wit, though it made others call his judgement in question. [The Bishop does not tell us, what we know from the Marquis's son, that he was... | |
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... and he was endless in consultations ; for when after much discourse a point was settled, if he could find a new jest to make even that which was suggested by himself seem ridiculous, he could not hold, but would study to raise the credit of his wit,... 
