 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
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - Novelists, English - 1825 - 554 pages
...of the flambler, which the editor ushered in by the following deserved encomium:— «The reader >s indebted for this day's entertainment to an author...taught the passions to move at the command of virtue.» In our detailed remarks on Richardson's several novels, we have, as usual, anticipated much which we... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 538 pages
...and unnumber'd rose From this polluted fountain head, O'er Rome and o'er the nations spread. FnAXCU. THE reader is indebted for this day's entertainment...who has enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and taqght the passions to move at the command of virtne. TO THE RAMBLER. SIR, WHEN the Spectator was first... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 538 pages
...unnuniber'd rose From this polluted fountain head, O'er Romc and o'er tbe nations spread. FKJLXcII. THE reader is indebted for this day's entertainment...age has received greater favours, who has enlarged 1 be knowledge of human nature, and taught the passions to move at the command of virtue. TO THE BAMBLER.... | |
 | Agriculture - 1825 - 538 pages
...corrector of the press. He was styled by Doctor Johnson, " an author from whom the age has received great favours, who has enlarged the knowledge of human nature,...taught the passions to move at the command of virtue." Besides his three great works of Pamela, Clarissa Harlowe, and Sir Charles Grandison, all of which... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1826 - 442 pages
...Talbot; No. 97, by Mr. Samuel Richardson, whom he describes in an introductory note as " An author who has enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and taught the passions to the name of the periodical paper which Moore had undertaken. Garrick proposed the Salad, which, by... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 440 pages
...Talbot; No. 97, by Mr. Samuel Richardson, whom he describes in an introductory note as " An author who has enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and taught the passions to the name of the periodical paper which Moore had undertaken. Garrick proposed the Salad, which, by... | |
 | 1829 - 550 pages
...This writer, undoubtedly, deserved the distinction, which Dr. Johnson conferred on him, as one who had "enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and taught the passions to move at the command of virtue," as well as that of being one of the earlier reformers of the British Novel. Hi« Pamela, which appeared... | |
 | Southern States - 1829 - 552 pages
...This writer, undoubtedly, deserved the distinction, which Dr. Johnson conferred on him, as one who had "enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and taught the passions to move at the unnmnd of virtue," as well as that of being one of the earlier reformers of the British Novel. His... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 pages
...of the Rambler, which was written by Mr. Richardson, observes that the reader was indebted for that day's entertainment to an author, ' from whom the age has received greater favors; who has enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and taught the passions to move at the command... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 600 pages
...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 10, by Mrs. Pi3s'' Elizabeth Carter; [which latter, signed Chariessa, had much... | |
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