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| James Boswell - 1821 - 394 páginas
...Tour to the Hebrides, 3d. edit. p. 28. VOL. I. P he describes in an introductory note as " An authour who has enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and...taught the passions to move at the command of virtue ;" and Numbers 44 and 100, by Mrs. Elizabeth Carter. Posterity will be astonished when they are told,... | |
| James Boswell - 1822 - 508 páginas
...Talbot ; No. 97, by Mr. Samuel Richardson, whom he describes in an introductory note as " An authour who has enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and...taught the passions to move at the command of virtue ;" and Numbers 44 and 100, by Mrs. Elizabeth Carter. Posterity will be astonished when they are told,... | |
| James Boswell - 1822 - 514 páginas
...Talbot ; No. 97, by Mr. Samuel Richardson, whom he describes in an introductory note as " An authour who has enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and...taught the passions to move at the command of virtue ;" and Numbers 44 and 100, by Mrs. Elizabeth Carter. Posterity will be astonished when they are told,... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 514 páginas
...and unnumber'd rose From this polluted fountain head, O'er Rome and o'er the nations spread. FRANCIS. THE reader is indebted for this day's entertainment...taught the passions to move at the command of virtue. TQ THE RAMBLER. SIR, WHEN the SPECTATOR was first published in single papers, it gave me so much pleasure,... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - 748 páginas
...Grandison. Dr. Johnson introduces it to his readers with an elegant compliment, as the production " of an author, from whom the age has received greater...taught the passions to move at the command of virtue." Greater favours the age had undoubtedly received from Richardson ; for this paper is of very inferior... | |
| James Ferguson - 1823 - 384 páginas
...unnumber'd rose From this polluted fountain head, O'er Rome, and o'er the nations spread. FRANCIS. THE reader is indebted for this day's entertainment...to an author from whom the age has received greater tavours, who has enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and taught the passions to move at the command... | |
| Gian Pietro Vieusseux - 1823 - 624 páginas
...scrivere, e sciolti da ogni maniera d'affettazione, gli uomini offrono in loro (43) An A.uthor who bas enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and taught the passions to move at the command of virtue . Rambter. N 97. (44) Leti, sngli spettacoli. Nota ( gg. ) (45) Eloge de Richardson. (4(j) Lycée,... | |
| H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 páginas
...Quelle flufs Verderben Ufber das Paierlund und 'lie Volker. The reader is indebted for this day'» entertainment to an author from whom the age has received greater favours wbo haj enlarged tho knowledge of human nature, and taught ihe passions to move at the command of virtue*).... | |
| Samuel Richardson - 1824 - 808 páginas
...ninetyseventh number of the Rambler, which the editor ushered in by the following deserved encomium : — " The reader is indebted for this day's entertainment...taught the passions to move at the command of virtue." IK our detailed remarks on Richardson's several novels, we have, as usual, anticipated much which we... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 526 páginas
...unnumber'd rose From this polluted fountain head, O'er Home and o'er the nations spread. FBinns. TH K reader is indebted for this day's entertainment to...the passions to move at the command of virtue. TO TiIE RAMBLER. SIR, WHEN the Spectator was first published in single papers, it gave me so much pleasure,... | |
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