...high and just praise given by our great critic, Dr. Johnson, to the author of Clarissa, that " he had enlarged the " knowledge of human nature, and taught...the passions to move at the command of " virtue." The novelist has, indeed, all the advantage of the preacher in introducing useful maxims and sentiments...

...It was the high and just praise given by our great critic, Dr. Johnson, to this author, that he had enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and taught the passions to move at the command of virtue. The novelist has, indeed, all the advantage of the preacher in introducing useful maxims and sentiments...

...very great degree of refinement ; having obtained from Dr. Johnson the hign encomium, " that lie had enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and taught the passions to move at the command of virtue." The youthful reader is here instructed how to judge comedy of these works of fancy; and valuable lessons...

...and unnumber'd rose From this polluted fountain head, O'er Rome and o'er the nations spread. FRANCIS. THE reader is indebted for this day's entertainment...passions to move at the command of virtue. To THE RAMSLER. SIR, WHEN the SPECTAToR was first published in single papers, it gave me so much pleasure,...

...unnuinber'd rose From this polluted fountain' head, O'er Rome and o'er the nations spread. FKANCIS. THE reader is indebted for this day's entertainment...knowledge of human nature, and taught the passions to m1m ftt the coialuaud of virtue. TO THE RAMBLER. HE, WHF.N the SPECTATOR was first published in single...

...Rome and o'er the nations fpread. FRANCIS. T I"1 HE reader is indebted for this day's entertain, ment to an author from whom the age has received greater...enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and taught the paffions to move at the command of virtue. To the RAMBLER. SIR, "1XTHEN the SPECTATOR was firft publifhed...

...Sir Charles Grandison ;' ' Dr. Johnson styles him ' an author from whom the age has ' received great favours, who has enlarged the knowledge ' of human...the passions to move at the ' command of virtue.' Mr. Sherlock, the traveller, observes ' that ' Richardson is admirable for erery species of deli' cacy...

...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,...

...Rune^ and o'er the nations spread. FRANCIs. THE reader is indebted for this day's entertainment to Hn author from whom the age has received greater favours,...human nature, and taught the passions to move at the con} fuand of virtue. To the RAMBLER. Sill, WHEN the SPECTATOR was first published in single papers,...

...and o'er the nations spread. FRANCIS, THE render is Indebted for this day's entertainment to •in author from whom the age has received greater favours, who has enlarged the knowledge of human nr.ture, nnd taught the passions to move at the corn piand of virtue. To the RAMBLER. SIR, WHEN the...