 | History - 1796 - 690 pages
...From thi« account of their competitions it will be readily inferred, that they were n&t fuccefsful in reprefenting or moving the affections. As they were wholly employed on fomething unexpefted and furprifmg, they had no regard to that uniformity of fenti1'ifnt which enables us to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 358 pages
...From this account of their eomppfitions it will be readily inferred, that they were not fuccefsful in reprefenting or moving the affections. As they were...: they never enquired what,, on any occafion, they fhould have faid or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ; as Beings... | |
 | Books - 1780 - 596 pages
...From this account of their competitions it will be readily inferred, that they were not fuccefsful in reprefenting or moving the affections. As they were...: they never enquired what, on any occafion, they fhould have faid or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ; as Beings... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1780 - 726 pages
...fuccefsful in reprefenting or moving the affeftions. As they were wholly employed on fomething unexpedted and furprifing, they had no regard to that uniformity...: they never enquired what, on any occafion, they ftiould have faid or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ; as Beings... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1780 - 590 pages
...account of their competitions it will be readily infrrred, that they were.not fucccf&ful in representing or moving the affections. As they were wholly employed...furprifing, they had no regard to that uniformity or' fentimeric which enables us to conceive and to excite the pains and the pleafure of other minds... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 498 pages
...From this account of their compofitions it will be readily inferred, that they were not fuccefsful in reprefenting or moving the affections. As they were wholly employed on fomething unexpected and furprifmg, they had no regard to that uniformity of fentiment which enables us to conceive and to excite... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...not fuccefsful in reprefenting or moving the aflections. As they were wholly employed on fomcthing unexpected and furprifing, they had no regard to that...minds: they never enquired what, on any occafion, they fhould have faid or done; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature; as Beings looking... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1795 - 610 pages
...reprefenting or moving the aft'ections. As they were wholly employed on fomething unexpected and furprizing, they had no regard to that uniformity of fentiment...: they never enquired what, on any occafion, they fhould have faid or done; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ,- as Beings... | |
 | History - 1796 - 692 pages
...account of their competitions it will be readily inferred, that they were not ("uccefsful in reprcfenting or, moving the affections. As they were wholly employed...furprifing, they had no regard to that uniformity of ientiMient which enables us to conceive and to excite the pains and the pleafure of other mir.ds :... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1797 - 444 pages
...reprefenting or movmg the affections. As they were wholly employed on fomething unexpected and furprizing, they had no regard to that uniformity of fentiment...enables us to conceive and to excite the pains and the pleafures of other minds ; they never enquired what, on any occafion, they ihould have faid or done... | |
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As they were wholly employed on something unexpected and 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... 
