 But when an adventurer is levelled with the rest of the world, and acts in such scenes of the universal drama, as may be the lot of any other man, young spectators fix their eyes upon him with closer attention, and hope, by observing his behaviour and...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 22by Samuel Johnson - 1806Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 424 pages
...rest of the world, and acts in such scenes of the universal drama, as may be the lot of any other man; young spectators fix their eyes upon him with closer...solemnities of professed morality, and convey the knowledge of vice and virtue with more efficacy than axioms and definitions. But if the power of example... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 360 pages
...rest of the world and acts in such scenes of the universal drama as may be the lot of any other man, young spectators fix their eyes upon him with closer...practices when they shall be engaged in the like part. RambUr, No. 4. Romantic virtue: NARRATIONS of romantic and impracticable virtue will be read with wonder,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 146 pages
...influenced by passions and qualities which are really to be found in conversing with mankind. . . . For this reason, these familiar histories may perhaps...solemnities of professed morality, and convey the knowledge of vice and virtue with more efficacy than axioms and definitions. (Rambler.} Kasselas takes... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 pages
...of the world, and acts in such scenes of the universal 20 drama, as may be the lot of any other man, young spectators fix their eyes upon him with closer attention, and hope, by observing his behavior and success, to regulate their own practices, when they shall be engaged in the like part.... | |
 | Louise Carew - 1926 - 252 pages
...Random and Ton Jones, he expressed the hope that "these f ami liar"" hiatorlea ray perhaps be nade of greater use than the solemnities of professed morality, and convey the knowledge of vice and virtue with aore efficacy than axioms and definitions. (fturphy: The vorka of... | |
 | Marshall McLuhan - 1962 - 306 pages
...rest of the world, and acts in such scenes of the universal drama, as may be the lot of any other man; young spectators fix their eyes upon him with closer...solemnities of professed morality, and convey the knowledge of vice and virtue with more efficacy than axioms and definitions. Quite parallel with this... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - 1962 - 676 pages
...rest of the world, and acts in such scenes of the universal drama as may be the lot of any other man, young spectators fix their eyes upon him with closer attention and hope, by observing his behavior and success, to regulate their own practices when they shall be engaged in the like part.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1968 - 400 pages
...drama, as 5. Pliny, Natural History, XXXv .36.85. 6. Juvenal, Xlv. may be the lot of any other man; young spectators fix their eyes upon him with closer...solemnities of professed morality, and convey the knowledge of vice and virtue with more efficacy than axioms and definitions. But if the power of example... | |
 | John Halperin - 1975 - 352 pages
...society realistically, the 'modern' novel taught innocence what to fear, and ignorance what to detest: These familiar histories may perhaps be made of greater...solemnities of professed morality, and convey the knowledge of vice and virtue with more efficacy than axioms and definitions, (in, pp. 21-2) The purpose... | |
 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - 2005 - 978 pages
...example, its sheer proximity to us, entails both a pedagogic promise and a pedagogic danger: [TJhese familiar histories may perhaps be made of greater...solemnities of professed morality, and convey the knowledge of vice and virtue with more efficacy than axioms and definitions. But if the power of example... | |
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