 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 550 psl.
...Yet he went into the worst part of King Charles's reign. The liveliness of his imagination was always too hard for his judgment. A severe jest was preferred...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... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 562 psl.
...a point was settled, if he could find a new jest, to make even that which was suggested by himself ridiculous, he could not hold, but would study to raise the credit of hi* wit, though it made others call his judgment in question. When he talked to me, as a philosopher,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1806 - 468 psl.
...was always too hard for his judgment. A severe jest was preferred by him to all arguments whatever; and he was endless in consultations : for when, after...though it made others call his judgment in question. When he talked to me, as a philosopher, of the contempt of the world ; I asked him ' what he meant... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1806 - 498 psl.
...yet he went into the worst part of king Charles's reign. The liveliness of his imagination was always too hard for his judgment. A severe jest was preferred by him to all arguments whatever ; and he was endless in consultations : for when, after much discourse, a point was settled,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 476 psl.
...his, handed down by his contemporaries. Burnet says, " The liveliness of his imagination was always too hard for his judgment. A severe jest was preferred by him to all arguments whatever; and he was endless in consultations ; for when, after much discourse, a point was settled,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 478 psl.
...his, handed down by his contemporaries. Burnet says, " The liveliness of his imagination was always too hard for his judgment. A severe jest was preferred by him to all arguments whatever; and he was endless in consultations; for when, after much discourse, a point was settled,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 486 psl.
...his, handed down by his contemporaries. Burnet says, " The liveliness of his imagination was always too hard for his judgment. A severe jest was preferred by him to all arguments whatever; and he was endless in consultations ; for when, after much discourse, a point was settled,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1816 - 540 psl.
...judgment. His severe jest was preferred by him to all arguments whatever; and he was endless in council ; for, when after much discourse a point was settled, if he could find a new jest, whereby he could make that which was digested by himself seem ridiculous, he could not hold, but would... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1816 - 536 psl.
...judgment. His severe jest was preferred by him to all arguments whatever; and he was endless in council ; for, when after much discourse a point was settled, if he could find a new jest, whereby he could make that which was digested by himself seem ridiculous, he could not hold, but would... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1816 - 538 psl.
...judgment. His severe jest was preferred by him to all arguments whatever; and he was endless in council; for, when after much discourse a point was settled, if he could find a new jest, whereby he could make that which was digested by himself seem ridiculous, he could not hold, but would... | |
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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,... 
