 from our present writers almost all that dominion over the passions which was the boast of their predecessors. Yet they may at least claim this commendation, that they avoid gross faults, and that if they cannot often move terrour or pity, they are always...  The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Rambler - Página 90por Samuel Johnson - 1825Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 538 páginas
...of adventures which regularity admits, and the unvaried equality of flowing dialogue, has taken away from our present writers almost all that dominion...that if they cannot often move terrour or pity, they arc always careful no^to provoke laughter. No. 126. SATURDAY, June 1, 1751. .Y,/ifc' eat aliud magnum... | |
 | Robert Dunmoor Craufurd Brown - 1830 - 294 páginas
...adventures which regularity admits, and " the unvaried equality of flowing dialogue, has taken " away from our present writers almost all that dominion " over the passions which was the boast of their prede" cessors." By a strange inconsistent perplexity of opinion, after proposing, as an improvement,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 624 páginas
...adventures, which regularity admits, and the unvaried equality of flowing dialogue, has taken away from our present writers almost all that dominion...avoid gross faults, and that if they cannot often move terror or pity, they are always careful not to provoke laughter. «on to approve, are surely sufficient... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 624 páginas
...adventures, which regularity admits, and the unvaried equality of flowing dialogue, has taken away from our present writers almost all that dominion...passions which was the boast of their predecessors. \i"et they may at least elaini this commendation, that they avoid gross faults, and that if they cannot... | |
 | 1908 - 444 páginas
...of adventures which regularly admits, and the unvaried equality of flowing dialogue, has taken away from our present writers almost all that dominion...gross faults, and that, if they cannot often move terror or pity, they are always careful not to provoke laughter. EDWARD GIBBON (1737-1794) was educated... | |
 | Barrett Harper Clark - 1918 - 528 páginas
...of adventurers which regularly admits, and the unvaried equality of flowing dialogue has taken away from our present writers almost all that dominion...avoid gross faults, and that if they cannot often move terror or pity, they are always careful not to provoke laughter. No. 156. Saturday, September 14, 1751.... | |
 | Barrett Harper Clark - 1918 - 544 páginas
...and the unvaried equality of flowing dialogue has taken away from our present writers almost all thnt dominion over the passions which was the boast of...commendation, that they avoid gross faults, and that if they canIn the same scene every circumstance concurs to turn tragedy to farce. The wild absurdity of the... | |
 | Barrett Harper Clark - 1918 - 532 páginas
...of adventurers which regularly admits, and the unvaried equality of flowing dialogue has taken away from our present writers almost all that dominion...avoid gross faults, and that if they cannot often move terror or pity, they are always careful not to provoke laughter. No. 156. Saturday, September 14, 1751.... | |
 | Frank Brady, William Wimsatt - 1978 - 655 páginas
...adventures which regularity 8 admits, and the unvaried equality of flowing dialogue, has taken away from our present writers almost all that dominion...avoid gross faults, and that if they cannot often move terror or pity, they are always careful not to provoke laughter. No. 156. Saturday, 14 September 1751.... | |
 | Frederick Burwick - 2010 - 357 páginas
...elements from tragedy, contemporary playwrights may not often “move terrour or pity” nor attain “that dominion over the passions which was the boast of their predecessors,” but neither are they apt to disrupt a tragic scene by provoking laughter. tm The illusion resides not... | |
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