 | History - 1796 - 690 pages
...fuffier, are in a ftate which no other man or woman can ever know. The readef ' finds no tranfa&ion in which he can be engaged ; beholds no condition...imagination place himfelf; he has, therefore, little natural curiofity orVympathy. We all, indeed, feel the effefts of Adam's difobedience ; we alt fin like Adam,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 302 pages
...comprifes neither human adtions nor human manners. The man and woman who act and fuffer, are in a ftate which no other man or woman can ever know. The reader finds no tranfaction in which he can be engaged ; beholds no condition in which he can by any effort of imagination... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1779 - 510 pages
...comprifes neiiher human aiUons nor human manners. The man and woman who aft and iuifer, are in a ftatc which no other man or woman can ever know. The reader finds no tranfaflion in which he can be engaged ; beholds no condition in which he can by any effort of imagination... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1780 - 726 pages
...comprifes neither human aftjons nor human manners. The man and woman who act and fuffer< are in a ftate which no other man or woman can ever know. The reader finds no tranfaftion in which he can be engaged j beholds no condition in which he can by any effort of imagination... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 494 pages
...and fuffer, are in a ftate which no other man or woman can ever know. The reader finds no tranfaction in which he can be engaged ; beholds no condition...place himfelf; he has., therefore, little natural curiofity or fympathy. We all, indeed, feel the efFeifls of Adam's difobedience ; we all fin like Adam,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 498 pages
...comprifes neither human aftions nor human manners. The man and woman who aft. and fuffer, are in a ftate which no other man or woman can ever know. The reader finds no tranfadlion in which he can be engaged ; beholds no condition in which he can by any effort of imagination... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 498 pages
...comprifes neither human actions nor human manners. The man and woman who act and fufler, are in a ftate which no other man or woman can ever know. The reader finds no tranfaction in which he fan be engaged ; beholds no condition in which hq M 3 can can by any effort... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...comprifes neither human actions nor human manners. The man anl woman who act and fuffer, are in a ftate which no other man or woman can ever know. The reader finds no tranfacHon in which he Can be engaged ; beholds no condition in which he can by. any effort of imagination... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Poets, English - 1790 - 508 pages
...and fuffer, are in a ftate which no other man or woman can ever know* The reader finds no tranfactk>n in which he can by any effort of imagination place himfelf; he has, therefore, little natural curiofity or fympathy. We all, indeed, feel the effects of Adam's difobedience; we all fin like Adam,... | |
 | 1794 - 494 pages
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The plan of Paradise Lost has this inconvenience, that it comprises neither human actions nor human manners. The man and woman who act and suffer are in a state which no other man or woman can ever know. The reader finds no transaction in which he can... 
