 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 612 pages
...novelty to domestic scenes and daily occurrences. He never " outsteps the modesty of nature," nor raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth. His figures neither divert by distortion, nor amaze by aggravation. He copies life with so much fidelity that he can be hardly said... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 664 pages
...novelty to domestic scenes and daily occurrences. He never " outsteps the modesty of nature," nor raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth. His figures neither divert by distortion, nor amaze by aggravation. He copies life with so much fidelity that he can be hardly said... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 422 pages
...outsteps the modesty of nature," nor * Far, in Dr. Warton's opinion, beyond Dryden. C. raises raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth. His figures neither divert by distortion, nor amaze by aggravation. He copies life with so much fidelity, that he can be hardly said... | |
 | 1811 - 600 pages
...novelty to domestic scenes and daily occurrences. He never oversteps the modesty of nature, nor raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth. His 'figures neither divert by distortion, nor amuse by aggravation. He copies life with so much fidelity, that he can hardly be said... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 378 pages
...novelty to domestic scenes and daily occurrences. He never " outsteps the modesty of nature," nor raises merriment or wonder by the , violation of truth. His figures neither divert by distortion nor amaze by aggravation. * Fari in Dr. Warton's opinion, beyond Dryden. C. He copies life... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 380 pages
...novelty to domestic scenes and daily occurrences. xHe never " outsteps the modesty of nature," nor raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth. His figures neither divert by distortion nor amaze by aggravation. in Dr. Warton's opinion, beyond Dryden. C. He copies life with... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1812 - 512 pages
...uovelty to domestic scenes and daily occurrences. He never " outsteps the modesty of nature," nor raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth. His figures neither divert by distortion, nor amaze by aggravation. He copies life with so much fidelity, that he can be hardly said... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1812 - 510 pages
...novelty to domestic scenes and daily occurrences. He never " outsteps the modesty of nature," nor raises merriment or .wonder by the violation of truth. His figures neither divert by distortion, nor amaze by aggravation. He copies life with so much fidelity, that he can be hardly said... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - 424 pages
...novelty to dome-sue scenes and daily occurrences. He never o'erstefis the ntodesty of nature, nor raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth. His figures neither divert by distortion, nor amaze by aggravation. He copies life with so much fidelity, that he can hardly be said-... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 504 pages
...never " outsteps the modesty of na* Far, in Dr. Warton's opinion, beyond Dryden. C. " ture," nor raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth. His figures neither divert by distortion, nor amaze by aggravation. He copies life with so much fidelity, that he can be hardly said... | |
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He copies life with so much fidelity that he can be hardly said to invent : yet his exhibitions have an air so much original that it is difficult to suppose them not merely the product of imagination. 
