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" 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 90
por Samuel Johnson - 1825
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Samuel Johnson

Lawrence Lipking - 2009 - 396 páginas
...part it also achieved what Johnson regarded as the only tribute that modern tragedies could expect, "that they avoid gross faults, and that if they cannot often move terror or pity, they are always careful not to provoke laughter." 42 Significantly, the one exception...
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The Passion for Happiness: Samuel Johnson and David Hume

Adam Potkay - 2000 - 276 páginas
...of 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" (4:305). where operate (7:62-65, emphasis mine). In his explanatory notes to Shakespeare's plays, Johnson...
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