 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 484 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. Pain is less subject than pleasure... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 428 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. Pain is less subject than pleasure... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 430 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. Pain is less subject than pleasure... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 582 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. Pain is less subject than pleasure... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 690 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. Pain is less subject than pleasure... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 378 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. Pain is less subject than pleasure... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 702 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. Pain is less subject than pleasure... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 334 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. Pain is less subject than pleasure... | |
 | C. S. Lewis - 1990 - 356 pages
...began to be generally admired: 'the ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence dispose the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time and communicate it at another'.4 The more than normal responsiveness which sensibility 1 Sigismonda and Guiscardo, 270. :... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1968 - 400 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 eacn labours first to impose upon himself, and then to propagate the imposture. Pain is less subject... | |
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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. 
