| Tobias Smollett - 1802 - 612 pagine
...In delineating or exciting the affections, the poets of this age were seldom successful ; — ' — as they were wholly occupied in something unexpected...rather as beholders than partakers of human nature, as beings looking upon good and evil impassive, and at leisure ; as Epicurean deities, making remarks... | |
| Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pagine
...ther were not successful in representing or moving the affections. As they were wholly employed on something unexpected and surprising, they had no regard...uniformity of sentiment which enables us to conceive and to excite the pains and the pleasures of other minds: they never enquired what, on any occasion, they... | |
| Abraham Cowley - 1806 - 294 pagine
...they were not successful in representing or moving the affections. As they were wholly employed on something unexpected and surprising, they had no regard...uniformity of sentiment which enables us to conceive and to excite the pains and the pleasure of other minds : they never inquired what, on any occasion, they... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 pagine
...they were not successful in representing or moving the affections. As they were wholly employed on something unexpected and surprising, they had no regard...uniformity of sentiment, which enables us to conceive and to excite the pains and the pleasure of other minds : they never inquired what, on any occasion, they... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pagine
...were not successful in re- i.. presenting or moving the affections. As they were wholly employed on something unexpected and surprising, they had no regard...uniformity of sentiment which enables us to conceive and to excite the pains and the pleasure of other minds : they never enquired what, on any occasion, they... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pagine
...successful in representing or moving the affections. As they were wholly employed on something unexpected or surprising, they had no regard to that uniformity of sentiment which enables us to conceive and to excite the pains and the pleasure of other minds : they never inquired what, on any occasion, they... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pagine
...representing or moving the affections. As they were wholly employed on something unexpected or surprir.ing, they had no regard to that uniformity of sentiment which enables us to conceive and to excite the pains and the pleasure of other minds : they never inquired what, on any occasion, they... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 486 pagine
...they were not successful in representing or moving the affections. As they were wholly employed on something unexpected and surprising, they had no regard...uniformity of sentiment which enables us to conceive and to excite the pains and the pleasure of other minds: they never enquired what, on any occasion, they... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 pagine
...they were not successful in representing or moving the affections. As they were wholly employed on something unexpected and surprising, they had no regard...uniformity of sentiment which enables us to conceive and to excite the pains and the pleasure of other minds : they never inquired what, on any occasion, they... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 476 pagine
...they were not successful in representing or moving the affections. As they were wholly employed on something unexpected and surprising, they had no regard...uniformity of sentiment which enables us to conceive and to excite the pains and the pleasure of other minds: they never , inquired what, on any occasion, they... | |
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