 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1858 - 418 pages
...or with revenge It glows. He is, therefore, with all his variety of excellence, not often pathetic; and had so little sensibility 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 his life he looked on Otway with contempt,... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1859 - 320 pages
...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...there is not a single passage that ever drew a tear. Varians Readings in the Life of DRYDEN. "The reason of this general perusal, Addison has attempted... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 pages
...ambition, or exasperated revenge. He is therefore, with all his variety of excellence, not often pathetic ; and had so little sensibility 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 his life he looked on Otway with contempt,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1873 - 620 pages
...seems not much acquainted, lie is, therefore, with all his variety of excellence, not often pathetic; and had so little sensibility of the power of effusions...may, indeed, be observed, that in all the numerous writing! of Johnson, whether in prose or verse, and even in his Tragedy, of which the subject is the... | |
 | James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 pages
...scems 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 purely natural, that he did not estcem them in others.' It may, indecd, be observed, that in all the numerous writings of Johnson,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 pages
...ambition, or exasperated revenge. He is therefore, with all his variety of excellence, not often pathetic; and had so little sensibility 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 his life he looked on Otway with contempt,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 626 pages
...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...there is not a single passage that ever drew a tear. 1 Various Readings in the Life of DRYDEN. "The reason of this general perusal, Addison has attempted... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1884 - 658 pages
...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...princess, there is not a single passage that ever drew a tear.1 Various Readings in the Life of DRYDEN. "The reason of this general perusal, Addison has attempted... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1887 - 652 pages
...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...Princess, there is not a single passage that ever drew a tear3. Various Readings in the Life of DRYDEN. ' The reason of this general perusal, Addison has attempted... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1887 - 466 pages
...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...purely natural, that he did not esteem them in others 2 .' It may indeed be observed, that in all the numerous writings of Johnson, whether in prose or verse,... | |
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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... 
