 ALL joy or sorrow for the happiness or calamities of others is produced by an act of the imagination, that realises the event however fictitious, or approximates it however remote, by placing us, for a time, in 'the condition of him whose fortune we contemplate;...  The Rambler - Page 381by Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 296 pages
...calamities of others is produced by an act of the imagination, that realises the event, however f1ctitious or approximates it however remote, by placing us, for a time, in the condition of him whose fortune we contemplate ; so that we feel, while the deception lasts, whatever motions would be... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1901 - 206 pages
...sorrow for the happiness or calamities of others is produced by an act of the imagination, that realizes the event however fictitious, or approximates it however...by placing us, for a time, in the condition of him whose fortune we contemplate; so that we feel, while the deception lasts, whatever motions would be... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 pages
...sorrow for the happiness or calamities of others is produced by an act of the imagination that realizes the event however fictitious, or approximates it however remote, by placing us, for a time, in the eon5 dition of him whose fortune we contemplate ; so that we feel, while the deception lasts, whatever... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1968 - 400 pages
...sorrow for the happiness or calamities of others is produced by an act of the imagination, that realises the event however fictitious, or approximates it however...by placing us, for a time, in the condition of him whose fortune we contemplate; so that we feel, while the deception lasts, whatever motions would be... | |
 | Patricia Meyer Spacks - 1994 - 276 pages
...sorrow for the happiness or calamities of others is produced by an act of the imagination, that realises the event however fictitious, or approximates it however...by placing us, for a time, in the condition of him whose fortune we contemplate; so that we feel, while the deception lasts, whatever motions would be... | |
 | Ann Jessie van Sant - 2004 - 168 pages
...others," Samuel Johnson says in Rambler No. 60, is produced by an act of the imagination, that realizes the event however fictitious, or approximates it however...by placing us, for a time, in the condition of him whose fortune we contemplate', so that we feel, while the deception lasts, whatever motions would be... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 pages
...sorrow for the happiness or calamities of others is produced by an act of imagination, that realises the event however fictitious, or approximates it however...by placing us, for a time, in the condition of him whose fortune we contemplate; so that we feel, while the deception lasts, whatever motions would be... | |
 | Jennifer A. Herdt - 1997 - 322 pages
...sorrow for the happiness or calamity of others is produced by an act of the imagination, that realizes the event however fictitious, or approximates it however...by placing us, for a time, in the condition of him whose fortunes we contemplate; so that we feel, while the deception lasts, whatever notions would be... | |
 | Adam Potkay - 2000 - 276 pages
...sorrow for the happiness or calamities of others is produced by an act of the imagination, that realises the event however fictitious, or approximates it however...by placing us, for a time, in the condition of him whose fortune we contemplate; so that we feel, while the deception lasts, whatever motions would be... | |
 | Norma Clarke - 2001 - 282 pages
...sorrow for the happiness or calamities of others is produced by an act of the imagination that realizes the event however fictitious, or approximates it however...by placing us, for a time, in the condition of him whose fortune we contemplate; so that we feel, while the deception lasts, whatever motions would be... | |
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