 | James Boswell - 1998 - 1540 ページ
...seems not much acquainted. He is, therefore, with all his variety of excellence, not often pathetick; and had so little sensibility of the power of effusions...that ever drew a tear. Various Readings in the Life O/'DRY0EN. The reason of this general perusal, Addison has attempted to [find in] derive from the delight... | |
 | Lawrence Lipking - 2009 - 396 ページ
...than quick sensibility ... He is therefore, with all his variety of excellence, not often pathetick; and had so little sensibility of the power of effusions...purely natural that he did not esteem them in others" (Lives 1: 457-458). Here like calls to like. Both authors might have argued their way to success in... | |
 | James Boswell - 2008 - 1024 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...indeed be observed, that in all the numerous writings ofJohnson, whether in prose or verse, and even in his tragedy, of which the subject is the distress... | |
 | 1835 - 780 ページ
...that, with all his variety of excellence, be is not often pathetic ; and had so little sensihility 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 hU life he looked on Otway with contempt.... | |
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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... 
