 Is it not certain that the tragic and comic affections have been moved alternately, with equal force, and that no plays have oftener filled the eye with tears, and the breast with palpitation, than those which are variegated with interludes of mirth ?...  Harrison's British Classicks - Page 3551785Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 416 pages
...that the tragick and comick affections have * • been 99 been moved alternately with equal force, and that no plays have oftener filled the eye with tears,...works of genius merely by the event. The refiftlefs viciffitudes of the heart, this alternate prevalence of merHment andfolemnity, may fometimes be more... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 422 pages
...and comick affections hare been N°is6- THE RAMBLER. 99 been moved alternately with equal force, and that no plays have oftener filled the eye with tears,...works of genius merely by the event. The refiftlefs viciffitudes of the heart, this alternate prevalence of merriment and folemnity, may fometimes be more... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 444 pages
...not certain that the tragick and comick affections have been moved alternately with equal force, and that no plays have oftener filled the eye with tears,...works of genius merely by the event. The refiftlefs viciffitudes of the heart, this alternate prevalence of merriment and folemnity, may fometimes be more... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 582 pages
...not certain that the tragick and iomick affections have been moved alternately with equal force, and that no plays have oftener filled the eye with tears,...palpitation, than thofe which are variegated with in. terludcs of mirth ? . I do not however think it fafe to judge of works of genius merely by the... | |
 | 1801 - 344 pages
...not certain that the tragick and comick affedtions have been moved alternately with equal force, and that no plays have oftener filled the eye with tears,...works of genius merely by the event. The refiftlefs vieiffitudes of the heart, this alternate prevalence of merriment and folemnity, may fometimes be more... | |
 | 1803 - 296 pages
...not certain that the tragic and comic affections have been moved alternately, with equal force, and that no plays have oftener filled the eye with tears, and the breast with palpitation, than those which are variegated with interludes of mirth ? I do not however... | |
 | 1806 - 420 pages
...comick affections have i been. N-I56. THE RAMBLER. 99 been moved alternately with equal force, and that no plays have oftener filled the eye with tears,...the breaft with palpitation, than thofe which are varie» gated with interludes of mirth ? I do not however think it fafe to judge of works of genius... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 354 pages
...not certain that the tragick and comick affections have been moved alternately with equal force ; and that no plays have oftener filled the eye with tears, and the breast with palpitation, than those which are variegated with interludes of mirth ? I do not however... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 310 pages
...and that no plays have oftener filled the eye with tears, and the breast with palpitation, than those which are variegated with interludes of mirth ? I do not however think it safe to judge of works of genius merely by the event The resistless vicissitudes of the heart, this... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 412 pages
...not certain that the tragic and comic affections have been moved alternately with equal force ^ and that no plays have oftener filled the eye with tears, and the breast with palpitation, than those which are variegated with interludes of mirth ? I do not however... | |
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