 In the romances formerly written, every transaction and sentiment was so remote from all that passes among men, that the reader was in very little danger of making any applications to himself; the virtues and crimes were equally beyond his sphere of activity;...  The Works of Samuel Johnson - Page 22by Samuel Johnson - 1816Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - English essays - 1750 - 296 pages
...deliverers and perfecutors, as with beings of another fpecies, whofe actions were regulated upon motif es of their own, and who had neither faults nor excellencies in common with himfelf. But when an adventurer is levelled with the reft of the world, and acts in fuch fcenes of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1752 - 326 pages
...IN the romances formerly written, every tranfacHon and fentiment was fo remote from all that pafles among men, that the reader was in very little danger of making any applications to himfelf ; the virtues and crimes were equally beyond his fphere of activity j and he amufed himfelf... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 466 pages
...Jn the romances formerly written, every tranfaction and fentiment was ib remote from all that pafles among men, that the reader was in very little danger of making any applications to himfelf ; the virtues and crimes were equally beyond his fphere of activity ; and he amufed himfelf... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787
...In the romances formerly written, every tranfaction and fentiment was fo remote from all that pafles among men, that the reader was in very little danger of making any applications to himfelf ; the virtues and crimes were equally beyond his fphere of activity ; and he amufed himfelf... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 626 pages
...In the romances formerly written, every tranfaction and fentiment was fo remote from all that pafles among men, that the reader was in very little danger of making any applications to himfelf ; the virtues and crimes were equally beyond his fphere of activity ; and he amufed himfelf... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 582 pages
...romances formerly written, every tranfaction and fentiment was fo remote from all that pafTes ampn£ men, that the reader was in very little danger of making any applications to himfdt ; the virtues and crimes were equally beyond, his Iphere of activity ; and he amufed himfelf... | |
 | 1801 - 342 pages
...the romances formerly written, every tranf— a£Hon and fentiment was fo remote from all that pafles among men, that the reader was in very little danger of making any applications to himfelf j the virtues and crimes were equally beyond his fphere of a£tivity ; and he amufed himfelf... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 460 pages
...In the romances formerly written, every tranfaction and fentiment was fo remote from all that pafles among men, that the reader was in very little danger of making any applications to himfelf; the virtues ard crimes were equally beyond his fphere of activity ; and he amufed himfelf... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 460 pages
...with heroes and with traitors, deliverers and perfecutors, as with beings of another fpecie?, whofe actions were regulated upon motives of their own, and who had neither faults nor excelJencies in common with himfelf. But when an adventurer is levelled with the reft of the world,... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 322 pages
...combinations of images. In the romances formerly written, every transaction and sentiment was so remote from all that passes among men, that the reader was in very little danger of making any applications td himself ; the virtues and crimes were equally beyond his sphere of activity ; and he amused himself... | |
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