 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 páginas
...Talbot ; No. Q7, 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 10O, by Mrs. Elizabeth Carter. Posterity will be astonished when they are told,... | |
 | Stephen Jones - 1799 - 456 páginas
...approbation. 1 >r. Johnson styles him " an author from whom the age has received great favour«, who has enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and taught the Passions to move at the '.oramand of Virtue." He was born died 1785. RIDLEY (DR. NICHOLAS) Ы shop of London, one of the principal... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 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 1 In the original MS. ' in this my undertaking,' and below, ' the salvation both of myself and others.'... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 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 ' In the original MS. ' in this my undertaking,' and below, ' the salvation both of myself and others.'... | |
 | 1803 - 290 páginas
...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. To the Rambler, SIR, WHEN the Spectator was first published in single papers, it gave me so much pleasure,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 páginas
...No. .97 i 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,... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1804 - 740 páginas
...It was the high and just praise given by our great critic, Dr. Johnson, to this author, that he had enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and taught the passions to move at the command of virtue. The novelist has, indeed, all the advantage of the preacher in introducing useful maxims and sentiments... | |
 | Samuel Richardson, Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1804 - 414 páginas
...high and just praise given by our great critic, Dr. Johnson, to the author of Clarissa, that " he had enlarged the " knowledge of human nature, and taught...the passions to move at the command of " virtue." The novelist has, indeed, all the advantage of the preacher in introducing useful maxims and sentiments... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1804 - 416 páginas
...high and just praise given by our great critic, Dr. Johnson, to the author of Clarissa, that " he had enlarged the " knowledge of human nature, and taught...the passions to move at the command of " virtue." The novelist has, indeed, all the advantage of the preacher in introducing useful maxims and sentiments... | |
 | 1805 - 498 páginas
...very great degree of refinement ; having obtained from Dr. Johnson the hign encomium, " that lie had enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and taught the passions to move at the command of virtue." The youthful reader is here instructed how to judge comedy of these works of fancy; and valuable lessons... | |
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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. 
