 | Stephen Coleridge - English prose literature - 1923 - 290 pages
...avocations will seduce attention, and casual eclipses of the mind will darken learning ; and that the writer shall often in vain trace his memory at the moment...which will come uncalled into his thoughts to-morrow. " In this work, when it shall be found that much is omitted, let it not be forgotten that much likewise... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English prose literature - 1925 - 1124 pages
...avocations will seduce attention, and casual eclipses of the mind will darken learning ; and that the writer shall often in vain trace his memory at the moment...which will come uncalled into his thoughts to-morrow. In this work, when it shall be found that much is omitted, let it not be forgotten that much likewise... | |
 | Richard Grant White - English language - 1927 - 472 pages
...avocations will seduce attention, and casual ellipses of the mind will darken learning ; and that the writer shall often in vain trace his memory at the moment...yesterday he knew with intuitive readiness, and which will coma uncalled into his thoughts to-morrow." Here will is used in three clauses, and shall in one, to... | |
 | Christopher Morley - 1927 - 1126 pages
...avocations will seduce attention, and casual eclipses of the mind will darken learning; and that the writer shall often in vain trace his memory at the moment...which will come uncalled into his thoughts to-morrow. I know no better way of celebrating Doctor Johnson's birthday than by quoting a few passages from his... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 498 pages
...avocations will seduce attention, and casual eclipses of the mind will darken learning; and that the writer shall often in vain trace his memory at the moment...which will come uncalled into his thoughts to-morrow. In this work, when it shall be found that much is omitted, let it not be forgotten that much likewise... | |
 | W. F. Bolton - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1966 - 244 pages
...will seduce attention, and 155 casual eclipses of the mind will darken learning; and that the writer shall often in vain trace his memory at the moment...which will come uncalled into his thoughts to-morrow. In this work, when it shall be found that much is omitted, let it not be forgotten that much likewise... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 384 pages
...avocations will seduce attention, and casual eclipses of the mind will darken learning; and that the writer shall often in vain trace his memory, at the moment...which will come uncalled into his thoughts to-morrow. Print with its constant demand for copy, with its steadily increasing stacks of printed pages in the... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 244 pages
...avocations will seduce attention, and casual eclipses of the mind will darken learning; and that the writer shall often in vain trace his memory, at the moment...intuitive readiness, and which will come uncalled in his thoughts tomorrow. No wonder the first volume was not completed until 1753, seven years after... | |
 | Muriel Deutsch Lezak - Medical - 2004 - 1038 pages
...slight avocations will seduce attention and casual eclipses will darken learning; and that the writer shall often in vain trace his memory at the moment...which will come uncalled into his thoughts tomorrow. Samuel Johnson Tests of confrontation naming provide information about the ease and accuracy of word... | |
 | American essays - 1864 - 886 pages
...avocations will seduce attention, and casual eclipses of the mind will darken learning; and that the writer shall often in vain trace his memory at the moment...which will come uncalled into his thoughts to-morrow." The " Pronouncing Vocabularies of Modern Geographical and Biographical Names, by J. Thomas, MD," are... | |
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... sudden fits of inadvertency will surprise vigilance, slight avocations will seduce attention, and casual eclipses of the mind will darken learning; and that the writer shall often in vain trace his memory, at the moment of need, for that which yesterday... 
