 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 376 pages
...inflamed by rivalry, or obftructed by difficulties; when it invigorated ambition, or exafperated revenge. He is therefore, with all his variety of -excellence, not .often pathetick; and had fo little fenfibility of the power of effufions purely natural, that he did not *fteem them in others.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1772 - 388 pages
...rivalry, or obftructed by difficulties ; ' * l when when it invigorated ambition, or exafperated revenge. He is therefore, with all his variety of excellence, not often pathetick; and had fo little fenfibility of the power of effufions purely natural, that he did not efteem them in others.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 476 pages
...inflamed by rivalry, or obftru&ed by difficulties : when it invigorated ambition, or exafperated revenge. He is therefore, with all his variety of excellence, not often pathetick; and had fo little fenfibility of the power of effufions purely natural, that he did not efteem them in others.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...inflamed by rivalry, or obftructed by difficulties : when it invigorated ambition, or exafperated revenge. He is therefore, with all his variety of excellence, not often pathetick ; and had fb little fenfibility of the power of effufions purely natural, that he did not efteem them in others.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 498 pages
...by rivalry, or obfttucted by difficulties : when it invigorated ambition, or cxafperated revenge. H$ is therefore, with all his variety of excellence, not often pathetick ; and had fo little fenfibility of the power of1 effulions purely natural, that he did not efteem them In others.... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 344 pages
...inflamed by rivalry, or obftrufted by difficulties ; when it invigorated ambition, or exafperated revenge. He is therefore, with all his variety of excellence, not often pathetick ; and had fo little fenlibility of the power of effufions purely natural, that he did not efteem them in others.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1791 - 608 pages
...meditation fupplies. With the fimple and elemental pafTions as they fpring feparate in the mind, he feems not much acquainted. He is, therefore, with all his...variety of excellence, not often pathetick ; and had fo little fenfibility of the power of effufions purely natural, that he did not efteem them in others.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...enflamed by rivalry, or obftructed by difficulties; when it invigorated ambition, or exafperated revenge. He is therefore, with all his variety of excellence, not often pathetick; and had fo little fenfibility of the power of effufions purely natural, that he did not efteem them in others.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1795 - 610 pages
...by rivalry, or obftructed by by difficulties ; when it invigorated ambition, or exafperated revenge. He is therefore, with all his variety of excellence, not often pathetick ; and had fo little fenfibility of the power of effufions purely natural, that he did not efteem them in others.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1797 - 278 pages
...by rivalry or obftructed by difficulties, when it invigorated ambition or exafperated revenge. . ' " He is therefore, with all his variety of excellence, not often pathetick ; and had fo little fenfibility of the power of .effufions purely natural, that he did not efteem them in others.... | |
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The power that predominated in his intellectual operations was rather strong reason than quick sensibility. Upon all occasions that were presented, he studied rather than felt, and produced sentiments not such as nature enforces, but meditation supplies. 
