 | John Keefe Robinson - 1850 - 162 páginas
...and has attempted to do for virtue what graver writers essayed in vain: "An author," says Johnson, "who has enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and...taught the passions to move at the command of virtue." This is, beyond doubt, the over-wrought dictum of a friend and panegyrist. Richardson's manners, as... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 496 páginas
...Talbot; .No. 97, by Mr. Samuel Richardson, whom he describes in an introductory note, as " an author who has enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and...taught the passions to move at the command of virtue ;" and Numbers 44 and 100, by Mrs. Elizabeth Carter. Posterity will be astonished when they are told,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 páginas
...Talbot ; No. 97., by Mr. Samuel Richardson, whom he describes in an introductory note, as " an author who has enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and...taught the passions to move at the command of virtue ;" s and Numbers 44. and 100., by Mrs. Elizabeth Carter. 5 Posterity will be astonished when they are... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1879 - 652 páginas
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 | James Boswell - 1874 - 602 páginas
...Talbot ; No. 97, by Mr. Samuel Richardson, whom he describes in an introductory note as " An authour who has enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and...taught the passions to move at the command of virtue;" and Numbers 44 and 100, by Mrs. Elizabeth Carter. Posterity will be astonished when they are told,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 576 páginas
...Edin. Rer., v. 43, and in his Cuntrib. to Edin. Rec., edit. 1853, 151. ADVICE TO UNMARRIED LADIE8. nds, impressing them irresistibly with a feeling of...his letters : " The mind and body," says he, " have (Dr. Johnson). To THE RAMBLER. SIE, When the Spectator was first published in single papers, it gave... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 742 páginas
...Talbot ; No. 97, by Mr. Samuel Richardson, whom he describes in an introductory note, as " an author who has enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and...taught the passions to move at the command of virtue ; " 1 and Numbers 44, and 100, by Mrs. Elizabeth Carter. Posterity will be astonished when they are... | |
 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - 1884 - 326 páginas
...Johnson, therefore, who at this time was well acquainted with this ingenious author— who, he says, ' has enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and taught the passions to move at the command of virtue ' — promised to introduce the artist and his sister ; and accordingly carried them down to the bookseller's... | |
 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - 1885 - 306 páginas
...Johnson, therefore, who at this time was well acquainted with this ingenious author — who, he says, ' has enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and taught the passions to move at the command of virtue ' — promised to introduce the artist and his sister ; and accordingly carried them down to the bookseller's... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 576 páginas
...Talbots ; No. 97, by Mr. Samuel Richardson, whom he describes in an introductory note as ' An author who has enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and...taught the passions to move at the command of virtue ;' and Nos. 44 and 100 by Mrs. Elizabeth Carter. Posterity will be astonished when they are told, upon... | |
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THE reader is indebted for this day's entertainment to an author from whom the age has received greater favours, who has enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and taught the passions to move at the command of virtue. 
