| 1761 - 308 pages
...and fuperior eloquence difpofes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and commuhicate it at another ; and each labours firft to impofe upon himfelf, and then to propagate the impofhire. PAIN is lefs fubjefl: than pleafure to caprices of exprcffion. The torments of difeafe,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1767 - 316 pages
...reality, the moft happy was the laft. THE ambition of fuperior fenfibility and fuperior eloquence difpofes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time,...propagate the impofture. PAIN is lefs fubjecT: than pleafare to caprices of expreflion. The torments of difeafe, and the grief for irremediable misfortunes,... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 432 pages
...reality, the moft happy was the laft. The ambition of fuperior fenfibility and fuperior eloquence difpofes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time,...and then to propagate the impofture. Pain is lefs fubje£t than pleafure to caprices of expreflion. The torments of difeafe, and the grief for irremediable... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 430 pages
...reality, the moft happy was the laft. The ambition of fuperior fenfibility and fuperior eloquence difpofes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time,...to impofe upon himfelf, and then to propagate the impcfture. Pain is lefs fubject than pleafure to caprices of expreffion. The torments of difeafe, and... | |
| 1787 - 528 pages
...was the laft. The ambition of fuperior fenfibility and fuperior eloquence difpofes the, lovers of ans to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it...himfelf, and then to propagate the impofture. Pain is leu fubjeft than pleafure to capuces < " 1 •* ' THE IDLER. diihfc, ar.d the grief, for irremediable... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 432 pages
...reality, the moll happy was the laft. The ambition of fuperior fenfibility and fuperior eloquence difpofes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time,...and then to propagate the impofture. Pain is lefs fubjed than pleafure to caprices of expreffion. The torments of difeafe, and the grief for irremediable... | |
| British essayists - 1802 - 220 pages
...reality, tHe most happy was the last. The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and .each labours first to impose upon himself, and then to propagate the imposture. ljain is less subject than pleasure... | |
| 1803 - 196 pages
...was the last. The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of art to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another ; and each labours first to impose upon himself, and then to propagate the imposture* Pain is less subject than pleasure... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 pages
...the most happy was the last The ambition of superiour sensibility and superiour eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and each labours first to impose upon himself, and then to propagate the imposture. Pain is less subject than pleasure... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...the most happy was the last. The ambition of superior sensibility and 'superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another ; and each labours first to impose upon himself, and then to propagate the imposture. Pain is less subject than pleasure... | |
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