 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 páginas
...fidelity, that he can be hardly said to invent : yet his exhibitions have an air so much original, that it is difficult to suppose them not merely the product of imagination. Asa teacher of \visJuin, hemay.be confidently followed. His religion has nothing in the enthusiastick... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 páginas
...fidelity, that he can be hardly said to invent : yet bis exhibitions have an air so much original, that it is difficult to suppose them not merely the...confidently followed. His religion has nothing in the enthusiastick or superstitious : he appears neither weakly credulous nor wantonly sceptical'; his... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 376 páginas
...fidelity, that he can hardly be said to invent ; yet his exhibitions have an air so much original, that it is difficult to suppose them not merely the product of the imagination *." On this encomium of our learned Biographer, Dr. Beattie has bestowed lavish commendation.... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 378 páginas
...much fidelity, that he can hardly be said to invent; yet his exhibitions have an air so much original, that it is difficult to suppose them not merely the product of the imagination *." On this encomium of our learned Biographer, Dr. Beattie has bestowed lavish commendation.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 416 páginas
...goodness; and, if I may use expressions yet more awful, of having turned many to righteousness." — " As a teacher of wisdom, he may be confidently followed....enthusiastic or superstitious ; he appears neither weak-. ly credulous nor wantonly sceptical ; his morality is neither dangerously lax nor impracticably... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 620 páginas
...fidelity that he can be hardly said to invent ; yet his exhibitions have an air so»much original, that it is difficult to suppose them not merely the...neither dangerously lax, nor impracticably rigid. AH the enchantment of fancy, and all the cogency of argument, are employed to recommend to the reader... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 422 páginas
...be hardly said to invent ; yet his exhibitions have an air so much original, that it is diffiv cult to suppose them not merely the product of imagination....confidently followed. His religion has nothing in it enthusiastick or superstitious : he appears neither weakly credulous, nor wantonly sceptical ; his... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 394 páginas
...much fidelity that he can hardly be said to invent ; yet his exhibitions have an air so much original, that it is difficult to suppose them not merely the product of imagination*." Dr. JOHNSON here characterises the humour of ADDISON with singular acuteness of thought and felicity... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 620 páginas
...so much original, that it is difficult to suppose them not merely the product >Г imagination. Äs a teacher of wisdom, he may be confidently followed. His religion has lothing in it enthusiastic or superstitious : he appears neither weakly credulous, nor wantonly sceptical;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 378 páginas
...much fidelity that he can be hardly said to invent ; yet his exhibitions have an air so much original, that it is difficult to suppose them not merely the...imagination. As a teacher of wisdom, he may be confidently foj* lowed. His icligion has nothing in it enthusiastic or superstitious ; he appears neither weakly... | |
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outsteps the modesty of nature," nor raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth. His figures neither divert by distortion nor amaze by aggravation. He copies life with so much fidelity that he can be... 
