 An author who has enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and taught the passions to move at the command of virtue;' and Numbers 44 and 100, by Mrs.  Works - Էջ 167Samuel Johnson - 1811Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 574 էջ
...Talbot ; No. 97, by Mr. Samuel Richardson, whom he describes in an introductory note, as " an author who has enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and...taught the passions to move at the command of virtue ; "3 and Numbers 44, and 100, by Mrs. Elizabeth Carter. 1 This is a mistake, into which the author... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 566 էջ
...Talbot ; No. 97, by Mr. Samuel Richardson, whom he describes in an introductory note, as "an author who has enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and...taught the passions to move at the command of virtue ; " 3 and Numbers 44, and 100, by Mrs. Elizabeth Carter. 1 This is a mistake, into which the author... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 էջ
...Talbot ; No. 97, by_ Mr. Samuel Richardson, whom he describes in an introductory note as "An author who has enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and...taught the passions to move at the command of virtue ;" and Numbers 44 and 100, by Mrs. Elizabeth Carter. Posterity will be astonished when they are told,... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1894 - 322 էջ
..." attained within these sheets." By Johnson once more his especial praise is thus summarized : " He has enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and taught the passions to move_at the . command of virtue." . How his microscope enlarged the knowledge* of human nature has... | |
 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - 1897 - 362 էջ
...Johnson, therefore, who at this time was well acquainted with this ingenious author, who he says, " has enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and taught the passions to move at the command of virtue," promised to introduce the artist and his sister, and accordingly carried them down to the bookseller's,... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 450 էջ
...and taught the passions to move at the command of virtue. — Introductory note by the « Rambler." To THE RAMBLER Sir: — WHEN the Spectator was first...papers, it gave me so much pleasure that it is one of my favorite amusements of my age to recollect it ; and when I reflect on the foibles of those times,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 638 էջ
...Talbot ; No. 97, by Mr. Samuel Richardson, whom he describes in an introductory note as " An authour who has enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and...taught the passions to move at the command of virtue;" and Numbers 44 and 100, by Mrs. Elizabeth Carter. Posterity will be astonished when they are told,... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 458 էջ
...is indebted for this day's entertainment to an author from whom the age has received greater favors, who has enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and...taught the passions to move at the command of virtue. — Introductory note by the " Rambler." To THE RAMBLER Sir: — WHEN the Spectator was first published... | |
 | R. McWilliam - 1900 - 834 էջ
...the world a romance equal to ' Clarissa,' nor even approaching it. Johnson speaks of him as an author who has enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and...taught the passions to move at the command of virtue ; and he also says, there is more knowledge of the human heart in one letter of Richardson's than in... | |
 | Caroline Alice White - 1900 - 416 էջ
...when Johnson sententiously observed to him that in writing his story of ' Clarissa Harlowe ' he ' had enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and taught the passions to move at the command of virtue.' There is no doubt that Richardson's writings initiated the English novel, which henceforth became the... | |
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