| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 376 sivua
...inflamed by rivalry, or obftructed by difficulties; when it invigorated ambition, or exafperated revenge. He is therefore, with all his variety of -excellence, not .often pathetick; and had fo little fenfibility of the power of effufions purely natural, that he did not *fteem them in others.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1772 - 388 sivua
...rivalry, or obftructed by difficulties ; ' * l when when it invigorated ambition, or exafperated revenge. He is therefore, with all his variety of excellence, not often pathetick; and had fo little fenfibility of the power of effufions purely natural, that he did not efteem them in others.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 476 sivua
...inflamed by rivalry, or obftru&ed by difficulties : when it invigorated ambition, or exafperated revenge. He is therefore, with all his variety of excellence, not often pathetick; and had fo little fenfibility of the power of effufions purely natural, that he did not efteem them in others.... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 sivua
...inflamed by rivalry, or obftructed by difficulties : when it invigorated ambition, or exafperated revenge. He is therefore, with all his variety of excellence, not often pathetick ; and had fb little fenfibility of the power of effufions purely natural, that he did not efteem them in others.... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 498 sivua
...by rivalry, or obfttucted by difficulties : when it invigorated ambition, or cxafperated revenge. H$ is therefore, with all his variety of excellence, not often pathetick ; and had fo little fenfibility of the power of1 effulions purely natural, that he did not efteem them In others.... | |
| English poets - 1790 - 344 sivua
...inflamed by rivalry, or obftrufted by difficulties ; when it invigorated ambition, or exafperated revenge. He is therefore, with all his variety of excellence, not often pathetick ; and had fo little fenlibility of the power of effufions purely natural, that he did not efteem them in others.... | |
| James Boswell - 1791 - 608 sivua
...meditation fupplies. With the fimple and elemental pafTions as they fpring feparate in the mind, he feems not much acquainted. He is, therefore, with all his...variety of excellence, not often pathetick ; and had fo little fenfibility of the power of effufions purely natural, that he did not efteem them in others.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 sivua
...enflamed by rivalry, or obftructed by difficulties; when it invigorated ambition, or exafperated revenge. He is therefore, with all his variety of excellence, not often pathetick; and had fo little fenfibility of the power of effufions purely natural, that he did not efteem them in others.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1795 - 610 sivua
...by rivalry, or obftructed by by difficulties ; when it invigorated ambition, or exafperated revenge. He is therefore, with all his variety of excellence, not often pathetick ; and had fo little fenfibility of the power of effufions purely natural, that he did not efteem them in others.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1797 - 278 sivua
...by rivalry or obftructed by difficulties, when it invigorated ambition or exafperated revenge. . ' " He is therefore, with all his variety of excellence, not often pathetick ; and had fo little fenfibility of the power of .effufions purely natural, that he did not efteem them in others.... | |
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