 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...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... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1802 - 612 pages
...have said or done on other occasions ; their only aim was to say what had never been said before. They wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human...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,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...enables us to conceive and to excite the pains and the pleasures of other minds: they never enquired what, on any occasion, they should have said or done...courtship was void of fondness, and their lamentation of sorrow. Their wish was only to say what they hoped had been never said before. Nor was the sublime... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1806 - 294 pages
...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...courtship was void of fondness, and their lamentation of sorrow. Their wish was only to say what they hoped had been never said before. Nor was the sublime... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 pages
...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...courtship was void of fondness, and their lamentation of sorrow. Their wish was only to say what they hoped had been never said before. Nor was the sublime... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...enables us to conceive and to excite the pains and the pleasure of other minds : they never enquired what, on any occasion, they should have said or done...courtship was void of fondness, and their lamentation of sorrow. Their wish was only to say what they hoped had been never said before. . Nor was the sublime... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...should have said or done; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature, as be. ngs looking upon good and evil, impassive and at leisure,...emotion. Their courtship was void of fondness, and their lameatatioa of sorrow. Their wish was only to say what they hoped had never been said before. Nor was... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...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...courtship was void of fondness, and their lamentation of sorrow. Their wish was only to say what they hoped had never been said before. Nor was the sublime... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...what, on any occasion, they shou.d have said or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than partukers sf human nature ; as beings looking upon good and '....courtship was void of fondness, and their lamentation of sorrow. Their wish was only to say what they hoped had never been said before. Nor was the sublime... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 486 pages
...enables us to conceive and to excite the pains and the pleasure of other minds: they never enquired what, on any occasion, they should have said or done...courtship was void of fondness, and their lamentation of sorrow. Their wish was only to say what they hoped had been never said before. Nor was the sublime... | |
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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 : they never inquired what, on any occasion, they... 
