 | Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 стор.
...take, unapt to keep, soon hot and desirous of this and that, as soon cold and weary of the same again ; more quick to enter speedily than able to pierce far,...over-sharp tools, whose edges be very soon turned. Such wits delight themselves in easy and pleasant studies, and never pass far forward in high and hard... | |
 | Roger Ascham - 1815 - 428 стор.
...unapt to keep ; * soon hot, and desirous of this and that ; as cold, and soon weary of the same again ; more quick to enter speedily, than able to pierce...over-sharp tools, whose edges be very soon turned. Such wits delight themselves in easy and pleasant studies, and never pass far forward in high and hard... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1817 - 680 стор.
...to keep; soon hot, and desirous of this and that; as cold, and as soon weary of the same again — more quick to enter speedily than able to pierce far...over-sharp tools, whose edges be very soon turned : such wits delight in easy pleasant studies, and never pass forward in high and hard sciences." Consistently... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - 1833 - 764 стор.
...the quickest of wit when they were young. Quick wits commonly be apt to take, unapt to keep. Some are more quick to enter speedily than able to pierce far, even like unto over sharp tools, whose edges be very soon turned. Moreover commonly men very quick of wit, be... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - 1836 - 774 стор.
...quickest of wit when they were1 young. Quickwits commonly l)e apt to take, unapt to keep. Some are more quick to enter speedily than able to pierce far, even like unto over sharp tools, whose edges be very soon turned. Moreover commonly men very quick of wit, be... | |
 | 1836 - 432 стор.
...unapt to keep; soon hot, and desirous of this and that; as soon cold, and weary of the same again; more quick to enter speedily, than able to pierce far ; even like our sharp tools, whose edges be very soon turned. Such wits delight themselves in easy and pleasant... | |
 | Schoolmaster - 1836 - 926 стор.
...unapt to keep ; soon hot, and desirous of this and that ; as soon cold, and weary of the same again; more quick to enter speedily, than able to pierce far ; even like our sharp tools, whose edges be very soon turned. Such wits delight themselves in easy and pleasant... | |
 | 1842 - 300 стор.
...unapt to keep ; soon hot and desirous of this and that, as soon cold and weary of the same again ; more quick to enter speedily than able to pierce far; even like our sharp tools, whose edges be very soon turned. . . . Also for manners and life quick wits commonly... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1851 - 192 стор.
...and desirous of this and that; as cold and soon weary [as soon cold and weary ?] of the same again ; more quick to enter speedily than able to pierce far...over-sharp tools, whose edges be very soon turned. Such wits delight themselves in easy and pleasant studies, and never pass far forward in high and hard... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - 1852 - 408 стор.
...the quickest of wit when they were young. Quick wits commonly be apt to take, unapt to keep. Some are more quick to enter speedily than able to pierce far, even like unto over sharp tools, whose edges be very soon turned. Moreover commonly men very quick of wit, be... | |
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... tools, whose edges be very soon turned. Such wits delight themselves in easy and pleasant studies, and never pass far forward in high and hard sciences. 
