 THE reader is indebted for this day's entertainment to an author from whom the age has received greater favours, who has enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and taught the passions to move at the command of virtue.  Select British Classics - Page 2251803Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 464 pages
...unnumber'd rose From this polluted fountain head, O'er Rome and o'er the nations spread. FRANCIS. HPHE reader is indebted for this day's entertainment to...move at the command of virtue: To the RAMBLER. SIR, TXT" HEN the SPECTATOR was first published in single papers, it gave me so much pleasure, that it is... | |
 | Biography - 1816 - 536 pages
...it is well known, was written by Mr. Richardson ; in the preamble to which Dr. Johnson styles him " an author from whom the age has received greater favours,...taught the passions to move at the command of virtue." In 1804, was published " The Correspondenceof Samuel Richardson," in six volumes octavo. The best consequence... | |
 | Biography - 1816 - 536 pages
...it is well known, was written by Mr. Richardson ; in the preamble to which Dr. Johnson styles him " an author from whom the age has received greater favours,...taught the passions to move at the command of virtue." In 1804, was published " The CorTespon deuce of Samuel Richardson," in six volumes octavo. The best... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1816 - 766 pages
...of the Rambler, which was written by Mr Richardfon, obferves, that the reader was indebted for that day's entertainment to an author, " from whom the...greater favours ; who has enlarged the knowledge of hnman nature, and taught the paffions to move at the command of virtue." la his life of Rowe, he adds,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 538 pages
...by Mr. Richardson ; in <&& preamble to which Dr. Johnson styles him " an author from whom the »ge has received greater favours, who has enlarged the....of human nature, and taught the passions to move at ihe command, of virtue," Jo I8Q4, was published " The Cor-. respondence of Samuel Richardson,'* in... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...readers as the production " of an author, from whom the age had received greater favours ; who had enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and taught the passions to move at the command of virtue." ' Greater favours,' observes Mr. Chalmers, ' the age had undoubtedly received from Richardson ; for... | |
 | Biography - 1816 - 534 pages
...is well known, wu« written by Mr. Richardson ; in the preamble to which. l1r. Jolmson styles him " an author from whom the age has received greater favours, who has enlarged the knowledge '•'! Unman nature, and taught the passions to move at the - of virtue." In 1804, was published "... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...Talbot ; No. 97, by Mr. Samuel Richardson, whom he describes in an introductory note as " AD 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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 456 pages
...unnumber'd rose From this polluted fountain head, O'er Rome and o'er the nations spread.— — FBANCM. THE reader is indebted for this day's entertainment...to move at the command of virtue. To the RAMBLER. SIB, WHEN the Spectator was first published in single papers, it gave me so much pleasure, that it... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 442 pages
...Talbot ; No. 97, by Mr. Samnel Richardson, whom he describee 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 virtne;" and Numbers 44 and 100, by Mrs. Elizabeth Carter. Posterity will be astonished when they are... | |
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