 ... nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.  Bentley's Miscellany - Page 2271845Full view - About this book
 | Thomas James Mathias - 1797 - 208 pages
...common maxims of life, shall be reminded, that nothing mill su/t" .ply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity^ " long continued, will...useless, -wit ridiculous, and " genius contemptible.'" Dr. Johnson's Life of Savage, at the conclusion. " Deign oh the passing world to caft thine eyes, .''... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...common maxims of life, shall be reminded, that nothing will supply the want of prudence ; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and gi-nius contemptible. 3 O a SWIFT SWIFT. AN Account of Dr. Swift has been already collected, with great... | |
 | 1802 - 442 pages
...affairs ; but he had no friend to remind him " th.*t nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will...make knowledge useless,' wit ridiculous, and genius contemplible." Dr. Jobnan. At what period of his life Carolan commenced an itinerant musician, is not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...common maxims of life, ought to be reminded, that nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will...useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible. Life of Savage. IMPRISONMENT. Few are mended by imprisonment; and he whose crimes have made confinement... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...common maxims of life, shall be reminded, that nothing will supply the want of prudence ; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will...useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible. 3 O a, &WIFT SWI .F T. AN Account of Dr. Swift has been already collected, with great diligence and... | |
 | William Collins - Painters - 1805 - 266 pages
...the common maxims of life, shall be reminded, that nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will...useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible." — Vide Johnson's Life of Savage, 156 That Dr. Johnson evidently means all the consequences here denounced... | |
 | Richard Savage - English poetry - 1805 - 284 pages
...the common maxims of life, shall be reminded that nothing will supply the want of prudence ; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will...useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible. ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS; BY RICHARD SAVAGE. WEW.YORK: PRINTED BY WILLIAM A. DAVIS, IBfl, 39 5Billiain«Strmf... | |
 | William Collins (picture-dealer.) - 1805 - 260 pages
...common maxims of life, shall be reminded, that 'nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless^ wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible."—Fide Johnson's Life of Savage, That Dr. Johnson evidently means all the consequences... | |
 | English literature - 1806 - 576 pages
...common maxims of life, should be reminded, that nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity long continued, will make...useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.' The correspondence between DermodyandSir James Bland Burgess affords several interesting specimens of epistolary... | |
 | English literature - 1808 - 742 pages
...the common maxims of life, and evinced that nothing will supply the • want of prudence ; and that negligence and irregularity long continued, will make...useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible." Elliston gave the character its full effect, insomuch that those who were present, knowing Savage's... | |
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