 ... what, on any occasion, they should have said or done; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature; as Beings looking upon good and evil, impassive and at leisure; as Epicurean deities making remarks on the actions of men and the vicissitudes...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 8by Samuel Johnson - 1840Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 pages
...good and evil, impassive and at leisure ; as epicurean deities, making remarks on the actions of men, and the vicissitudes of life, without interest and...sorrow. Their wish was only to say what they hoped had been never said before. Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetic ; for they never... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 306 pages
...fondness, and their lamentation of sorrow. Their wish was only to say what they hoped had been never said before. Nor was the sublime more within their...fills the whole mind, and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 426 pages
...good and evil, impassive and at leisure, as Epicurean deities, making remarks on the actions of men, and the vicissitudes of life, without interest and...to say what they hoped had never been said before." Others, for Language all their care express 305 And value books, as women men, for dress : Their praise... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 428 pages
...good and evil, impassive and at leisure, as Epicurean deities, making remarks on the actions of men, and the vicissitudes of life, without interest and...to say what they hoped had never been said before." i ^ai Others for Language all their care express 305 / -n And value books, as women men, for dress... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 348 pages
...good or evil, impassive and at leisure; as Epicurean deities, making remarks on the actions of men, and the vicissitudes of life, without interest and...sorrow. Their wish was only to say what they hoped had been never said before. den astonishment, and the second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 484 pages
...good and evil, impassive and at leisure; as Epicurean deities, making remarks on the actions of men, and the vicissitudes of life, without interest and...Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetick ; for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought which at once fills... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 652 pages
...good and evil, impassive and at leisure ; as Epicurean deities, making remarks on the actions of men, and the vicissitudes of life, without interest and...Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetick ; for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought which at once fills... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 pages
...good and evil, impassive and at leisure, as Epicurean deities, making remarks on the actions of men, and the vicissitudes of . life, without interest and...to say what they hoped had never been said before." Johnson. Ver. 302. modest plainness] Xenophon in Greek, and Caesar in Latin, are the unrivalled masters... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 400 pages
...good and evil, impassive and at leisure, as Epicurean deities, making remarks on the actions of men, and the vicissitudes of life, without interest and...to say what they hoped had never been said before." Johnson. Ver. 302. modest plainness] Xenophon in Greek, and Caesar in Latin, are the unrivalled masters... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...good and evil, impassive and at leisure ; as Epicurean deities, making remarks on the actions of men, and the vicissitudes of life, without interest and...fills the whole mind, and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and... | |
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