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" In the romances formerly written, every transaction and sentiment was so remote from all that passes among men, that the reader was in very little danger of making any applications to himself... "
The Rambler - Page 22
by Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787
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The British Essayists: Rambler

James Ferguson - 1823 - 476 pages
...In the romances formerly written, every transaction and sentiment was so remote from all that passes among men, that the reader was in very little danger of making any applications to himself; the virtues and crimes are equally beyond his sphere of activity ; and he amused himself with...
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The English Master: Or, Student's Guide to Reasoning and Composition ...

William Banks - 1823 - 462 pages
...In the romances formerly written, every transaction and sentiment was so remote from all that passes among men, that the reader was in very little danger of making any applications to himself; the virtues and crimes were equally beyond his sphere and activity ; and he amused himself...
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The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 15-16

British essayists - 1823 - 748 pages
...In the romances formerly written, every transaction and sentiment was so remote from all that passes among men, that the reader was in very little danger of making any applications to himself ; the virtues and crimes were equally beyond his sphere of activity ; and he amused himself...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Rambler

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 526 pages
...In the romances formerly written, every transaction and sentiment was so remote from all that passes among men, that the reader was in very little danger of making any applications to himself; the virtues and crimes were equally beyond his sphere of activity ; and he amused himself...
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Murphy's essay. The rambler. The adventurer. The idler. Rasselas. Tales of ...

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 630 pages
...In the romances formerly written, every transaction and sentiment was so remote from all that passes himself; the virtues and crimes were equally beyond hie sphere of activity ; and he amused' liimself...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: An essay on the life and genius of ...

Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 630 pages
...In the romances formerly written, every transaction and scutiment was so remote from all that passes among men, that the reader was in very little danger of making any applications to himself; the virtues and cnmes were equally beyond his sphere of activity ; And he amused himself with...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's ..., Volume 4; Volumes 1780-1784

James Boswell - 1887 - 466 pages
...In the romances formerly written, every transaction and sentiment was so remote from all that passes among men, that the reader was in very little danger of making any applications to himself.' The Rambler, No. 4. 4 Johnson says of Pope's Ode for St. Cecilia's Day:—' The next stanzas...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Life (v.l, 1709-1765; v.2 1765-1776; v.3, 1776 ...

James Boswell - 1887 - 470 pages
...In the romances formerly written, every transaction and sentiment was so remote from all that passes among men, that the reader was in very little danger of making any applications to himself.' The Rambler, No. 4. 4 Johnson says of Pope's Ode for St. Cecilia's Day: — ' The next stanzas...
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Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson, George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1888 - 356 pages
...IN the romances formerly written every transaction and sentiment was so remote from all that passes among men that the reader was in very little danger of making any applications to himself; the virtues and crimes were equally beyond Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson. 248 ic tntrfue....
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Selections from the Works of Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 pages
...romances formerly written, every transaction and sentiment was so remote from all that passes among 10 men, that the reader was in very little danger of making any applications to himself; the virtues and crimes were equally beyond his sphere of activity; and he amused himself with...
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