 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - Страниц: 376
...inflamed by rivalry, or obftructed by difficulties; when it invigorated ambition, or exafperated revenge. He is therefore, with all his variety of -excellence, not .often pathetick; and had fo little fenfibility of the power of effufions purely natural, that he did not *fteem them in others.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1772 - Страниц: 388
...rivalry, or obftructed by difficulties ; ' * l when when it invigorated ambition, or exafperated revenge. He is therefore, with all his variety of excellence, not often pathetick; and had fo little fenfibility of the power of effufions purely natural, that he did not efteem them in others.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - Страниц: 476
...inflamed by rivalry, or obftru&ed by difficulties : when it invigorated ambition, or exafperated revenge. He is therefore, with all his variety of excellence, not often pathetick; and had fo little fenfibility of the power of effufions purely natural, that he did not efteem them in others.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - Страниц: 494
...inflamed by rivalry, or obftructed by difficulties : when it invigorated ambition, or exafperated revenge. He is therefore, with all his variety of excellence, not often pathetick ; and had fb little fenfibility of the power of effufions purely natural, that he did not efteem them in others.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - Страниц: 498
...by rivalry, or obfttucted by difficulties : when it invigorated ambition, or cxafperated revenge. H$ is therefore, with all his variety of excellence, not often pathetick ; and had fo little fenfibility of the power of1 effulions purely natural, that he did not efteem them In others.... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - Страниц: 344
...inflamed by rivalry, or obftrufted by difficulties ; when it invigorated ambition, or exafperated revenge. He is therefore, with all his variety of excellence, not often pathetick ; and had fo little fenlibility of the power of effufions purely natural, that he did not efteem them in others.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1791 - Страниц: 608
...meditation fupplies. With the fimple and elemental pafTions as they fpring feparate in the mind, he feems not much acquainted. He is, therefore, with all his...variety of excellence, not often pathetick ; and had fo little fenfibility of the power of effufions purely natural, that he did not efteem them in others.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - Страниц: 478
...enflamed by rivalry, or obftructed by difficulties; when it invigorated ambition, or exafperated revenge. He is therefore, with all his variety of excellence, not often pathetick; and had fo little fenfibility of the power of effufions purely natural, that he did not efteem them in others.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1795 - Страниц: 610
...by rivalry, or obftructed by by difficulties ; when it invigorated ambition, or exafperated revenge. He is therefore, with all his variety of excellence, not often pathetick ; and had fo little fenfibility of the power of effufions purely natural, that he did not efteem them in others.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1797 - Страниц: 278
...by rivalry or obftructed by difficulties, when it invigorated ambition or exafperated revenge. . ' " He is therefore, with all his variety of excellence, not often pathetick ; and had fo little fenfibility of the power of .effufions purely natural, that he did not efteem them in others.... | |
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The power that predominated in his intellectual operations was rather strong reason than quick sensibility. Upon all occasions that were presented, he studied rather than felt, and produced sentiments not such as nature enforces, but meditation supplies. 
