 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 ページ
...beholders than partakers of human nature ; as Beings looking upon good and evil, impaffive and at leifure ; as Epicurean deities making remarks on the actions of men, and the viciffitudes of life, without intereft and without emotion. Their courtfhip was void of fondnefs, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 498 ページ
...beholders than partakers of human nature; as Beings looking upon good and evil, impaffive and at leifure; as Epicurean deities making remarks on the actions of men, and the viciffitudes of life, without intereft and without emotion. Their courtfhip was void of fondnefs, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 ページ
...beholders than partakers of human nature; as Beings looking upon good and evil, impaffive and at leifure; as Epicurean deities, making remarks on the actions of men, and the vicifluudes of life, without interefl and without emotion. Their courtfhip was void of fondnefs, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1795 - 610 ページ
...than partakers of human nature ,- as Beings looking upon good and evil, impaflive and at leifure ; as Epicurean deities making remarks on the actions of men, and the viciflitudes of life, without intereft and without emotion. Their courtfhip was void of fondnefs, and... | |
 | 1796 - 692 ページ
...beholders than partakers of human nature ; as Beings looking upon good and evil, impaflive and ac Iciuiro ; as Epicurean deities making remarks on the actions of men, and the viciffitndes of life, without intereft and without emotion. Their courtlhip was void of fondnefs, and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1797 - 444 ページ
...beholders than partakers of human nature ; as beings looking upon good and evil, impaffive and at leifure, as Epicurean deities, making remarks on the actions of men, and the viciffiuides of life, without intereft and without emotion. Their courtmip was void of fondnefs, and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1797 - 442 ページ
...beholders than partakers of human nature ; as beings looking upon good and evil, impaffive and at leifure, as Epicurean deities, making remarks on the actions of men, and the viciffitudes of life, without intereft and without emotion. Their courtfhip was \'oid of fondnefs,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 ページ
...rather as beholders thart partakers of human riaturq^ as Beings looking upon good and evil, impassive nd at leisure ; as Epicurean deities making remarks on...life; without interest and without emotion. Their «ramhip was void of fondness, and their lamentation of sorrow. Their wisli was only to say what they... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 ページ
...beholders than partakers of human nature ; as Beings looking upon good and evil, impaffive and at leifure ; as Epicurean deities, making remarks on the actions of men, and the viciffitudes of life, without intereft and without emotion. Their courtfhip was void of fondnefs, and... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1802 - 612 ページ
...only aim was to say what had never been said before. They wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature, as beings looking upon good and evil...as Epicurean deities, making remarks on the actions ofir.cn, and the vicissitudes of life, without interest, and tion. Their courtship was void of fondness,... | |
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... 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 should have said or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than... 
