 | James Boswell - 1907 - 634 ページ
...seems not much acquainted. He is, therefore, with all his variety of excellence, not often pathetic ; J and had so little sensibility of the power of effusions purely natural, that he did not esteem them in others."—It may indeed be observed, that in all the numerous * One of the most natural instances... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 ページ
...ambition, or exasperated revenge. He is, therefore, with all his variety of excellence, not often pathetic, and had so little sensibility of the power of effusions...purely natural, that he did not esteem them in others. Simplicity gave him no pleasure; and for the first part of his life he looked on Otway with contempt,... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 ページ
...ambition, or exasperated revenge. He is, therefore, with all his variety of excellence, not often pathetic, and had so little sensibility of the power of effusions...purely natural, that he did not esteem them in others. Simplicity gave him no pleasure; and for the first part of his life he looked on Otway with contempt,... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 ページ
...ambition, or exasperated revenge. He is, therefore, with all his variety of excellence, not often pathetic, and had so little sensibility of the power of effusions purely natural, that he did not esteem them mothers. Simplicity gave him no pleasure; and for the first part of his life he looked on Otway with... | |
 | Percy Fitzgerald - 1912 - 316 ページ
...pleasure expatiate on the life of Dryden," he says : but en passant calls attention to one fact : " It may indeed be observed that in all the numerous writings of Johnson, even in his tragedy, in which the subject is the distress of an unfortunate Princess, there is not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1913 - 220 ページ
...or exasperated 20 revenge. He is therefore, with all his variety of excellence, not often pathetic; and had so little sensibility of the power of effusions...purely natural, that he did not esteem them in others. Simplicity gave him no pleasure ; and for the first part of his life he looked on Otway with contempt,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1922 - 538 ページ
...seems not much acquainted. He is, therefore, with all his variety of excellence, not often pathetic ; and had so little sensibility of the power of effusions...his tragedy, of which the subject is the distress of ar unfortunate princess, there is not a single passage that ever drew a tear. Various Readings in the... | |
 | Edmund David Jones - 1922 - 522 ページ
...ambition, or exasperated revenge. He is therefore, with all his variety of excellence, not often pathetic ; and had so little sensibility of the power of effusions...purely natural, that he did not esteem them in others. Simplicity gave him no pleasure ; and for the first part of his life he looked on Otway with contempt,... | |
 | John Dryden, William Congreve, Samuel Johnson, Walter Scott - 1925 - 230 ページ
...or exasperated revenge. He is therefore, with all his variety- of excellence, not often pathetic ; and had so little sensibility of the power of effusions purely natural, that he did not esteem them 30 in others. Simplicity gave him no pleasure ; and for the first part of his life he looked on Otway... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 696 ページ
...seems not much acquainted ; he is, therefore, with all his variety of excellence, not often pathetic, and had so little sensibility of the power of effusions...purely natural, that he did not esteem them in others." On the excellencies of Addison, his predecessor essayist, he lavishes the honours of literary applause,... | |
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... presented, he studied rather than felt; and produced sentiments not such as Nature enforces, but meditation supplies. With the simple and elemental passions as they spring separate in the mind, he seems not much acquainted. He is, therefore, with... 
