 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1836 - 568 pages
...limits of coarseness ; and Savage, who had seen him familiarly at Lord Tyrconnel's, used to say of him that the whole range of his mind was from obscenity to politics, and from politics to obscenity. In his private expenses, he was not only liberal, but lavish ; and it must be acknowledged... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 494 pages
...universally detested, he observed, that his acquisitions had been small, or that his capacity was narrow, and that the whole range of his mind was from obscenity to politics, and from politics to obscenity. But the opportunity of indulging his speculations on great characters was now at an end.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 380 pages
...universally detested, he observed, that his acquisitions had been small, or that his capacity was narrow, and that the whole range of his mind was from obscenity to politics, and from politics to obscenity. But the opportunity of indulging his speculations on great characters was now at an end.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 378 pages
...universally detested, he observed, that his acquisitions had been small, or that his capacity was narrow, and that the whole range of his mind was from obscenity to politics, and from politics to obscenity. But the opportunity of indulging his speculations on great characters was now at an end.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 426 pages
...universally detested, he observed, that his acquisitions had been small, or that his capacity was narrow, and that the whole range of his mind was from obscenity to politics, and from politics to obscenity. But the opportunity of indulging his speculations on great characters was now at an end.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 416 pages
...universally detested, he observed, that his acquisitions bad been small, or that his capacity was narrow, and that the whole range of his mind was from obscenity to politics, and from politics to obscenity. But the opportunity of indulging his speculations on great characters was now at an end.... | |
 | Arminianism - 1879 - 1042 pages
...Walpole was not much worse than his brother squires when he gave occasion to the saying of Savage : ' The whole range of his mind was from obscenity to politics, and from politics back to obscenity.' On the least provocation the mob became unmanageable ; and not Methodists only, but many Dissenters... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 318 pages
...universally detested, he observed, that his acquisitions had been small, or that his capacity was narrow, and that the whole range of his mind was from obscenity to politics, and from politics to obscenity. But the opportunity of indulging his speculations on great characters was now at an end.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1826 - 446 pages
...universally detested, he observed, that his acquisitions had been small, or that his capacity was narrow, and that the whole range of his mind was from obscenity to politics, and from politics to obscenity. But the opportunity of indulging his speculations on great characters was now at an end.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 pages
...universally detested, he observed, that his acquisitions had been small, or that his capacity was narrow, and that the whole range of his mind was from obscenity to politics, and from politics to obscenity. But the opportunity of indulging his speculations on great characters was now at an end.... | |
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... that the whole range of his mind was from obscenity to politics, and from politics to obscenity. 
