 | 1889 - 686 oldal
...believed, and is perhaps true, that to write one's native tongue is far harder than to speak it. " Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation; but no sooner does he take a pen in hand than it becomes a torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties." And yet, how often, in bland... | |
 | Joseph Smith (bookseller.) - 1893 - 398 oldal
...literary information, and bestowed on him a great epigram, but is said to have satirically observed, " Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation, but...a torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties." His General Dictionary, including a new translation of M. Bayle, was interspersed with several thousand... | |
 | Joseph Smith - 1893 - 394 oldal
...literary information, and bestowed on him a great epigram, but is said to have satirically observed, " Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation, but...a torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties." His General Dictionary, including a new translation of M. Bayle, was interspersed with several thousand... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 532 oldal
...are spoken to.'" Ib. iii. 307 ; ante, i. 290. 3 Life, ii. 434 ; ante, i. 458. 4 Life, ii. 256. 5 ' Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation ; but...a torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties.' Ib. i. 159. fire-side, and a white world abroad '. His reader has a moment's leisure to censure or... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 530 oldal
...you are spoken to."' Ib. iii. 307 ; ante, i. 290. 3 Life, ii. 434 ; ante, i. 458. 4 Life, ii. 256. s 'Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation ;...a torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties.' Ib. i. 159. fire-side fire-side, and a white world abroad '. His reader has a moment's leisure to censure... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 542 oldal
...you are spoken to."' Ib. iii. 307 ; ante, i. 290. 3 Life, ii. 434 ; ante, i. 458. 4 Life, ii. 256. 5 'Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation ;...a torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties.' Ib. \. 159. fire-side, and a white world abroad '. His reader has a moment's leisure to censure or... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 oldal
...Mead, [t] which is conceived with great address, to conciliate the patronage of that very eminent man.* It has been circulated, I know not with what authenticity,...a torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties." That the literature of this country is much indebted to Birch's activity and diligence must certainly... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 638 oldal
...Mead.f which is conceived with great address, to conciliate the patronage of that very eminent man." It has been circulated, I know not with what authenticity,...bee in conversation; but no sooner does he take a per. in his hand, than it becomes a torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties." That the literature... | |
 | James Boswell - 1901 - 540 oldal
...Mead,f which is conceived with great address, to conciliate the patronage of that very eminent man. 1 It has been circulated, I know not with what authenticity,...a torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties." That the literature of this country is much indebted to Birch's activity and diligence must certainly... | |
 | James Boswell - 1901 - 526 oldal
...Mead,f which is conceived with great address, to conciliate the patronage of that very eminent man. 1 It has been circulated, I know not with what authenticity,...a torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties." That the literature of this country is much indebted to Birch's activity and diligence must certainly... | |
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It has been circulated, I know not with what authenticity, that Johnson considered Dr. Birch as a dull writer, and said of him, 'Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation ; but no sooner does he take a pen in his hand, than it becomes a torpedo to... 
