 | Thomas Ebenezer Webb - Idealism - 1885 - 396 pages
...every virtue under heaven — how Atterbury exclaimed, that till he knew him he did not think that so much understanding, so much knowledge, so much innocence, and such humility, had been the portion of any but the angels. The range of his intellectual accomplishments was almost... | |
 | Great Britain - 1885 - 492 pages
...Pope's famous attribution to him of ' every virtue under heaven ' (Epilogue to Satire*, ii. 78). ' So much understanding, so much knowledge, so much innocence, and such humility, I did not think had been the fashion of any but angels, till I saw this gentleman,' was Atterbury's... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1885 - 112 pages
...by his relative, Lord Berkeley, what he thought of his kinsman at their first interview, replied : " So much understanding, so much knowledge, so much innocence, and such humility, I did not think had been the portion of angels till I saw this gentleman." Pope's well-known lines,... | |
 | Alexander Hugh Hore - Great Britain - 1886 - 596 pages
...Benson (Bishop of Gloucester) given, To Berkeley every virtue under Heaven." Atterbury said of him, " So much understanding, so much knowledge, so much innocence, and such humility, I did not think had been the portion of any but angels, till I saw this gentleman." — Jones of Nayland's... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1889 - 462 pages
...there had been given "to Berkeley every virtue under heaven"; and the grim Atterbury confessed that " so much understanding, so much knowledge, so much innocence, and such humility, I did not think had been the portion of any but angels, till I saw this gentleman." In the autumn of... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1889 - 454 pages
...there had been given "to Berkeley every virtue under heaven"; and the grim Atterbury confessed that " so much understanding, so much knowledge, so much innocence, and such humility, I did not think had been the portion of any but angels, till I saw this gentleman." In the autumn of... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1889 - 440 pages
...there had been given "to Berkeley every virtue under heaven"; and the grim Atterbury confessed that "so much understanding, so much knowledge, so much innocence, and such humility, I did not think had been the portion of any but angels, till I saw this gentleman." In the autumn of... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1891 - 462 pages
...there had been given "to Berkeley every virtue under heaven"; and the grim Atterbury confessed that " so much understanding, so much knowledge, so much innocence, and such humility, I did not think had been the portion of any but angels, till I saw this gentleman." In the autumn of... | |
 | OLIVER WENDELL HOLMS - 1891 - 470 pages
...heaven.' " Even the discerning, fastidious, and turbulent Atterbury said, after an interview with him, ' So much understanding, so much knowledge, so much innocence, and such humility, I did not think had been the portion of any but angels, till I saw this gentleman.' " But among the... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1891 - 440 pages
...there had been given "to Berkeley every virtue under heaven"; and the grim Atterbury confessed that " so much understanding, so much knowledge, so much innocence, and such humility, I did not think had been the portion of any but angels, till I saw this gentleman." In the autumn of... | |
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So much understanding, so much knowledge, so much innocence, and such humility, I did not think had been the portion of any but angels, till I saw this gentleman. 
