 I passed ; for it is impossible that any thing should be universally tasted and approved by a multitude, though they are only the rabble of a nation, which hath not in it some peculiar aptness to please and gratify the mind of man.  the queens university calander - Σελίδα 515των alexander thom - 1875Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | 1792 - 556 σελίδες
...unterlaufen. Wahrlich , es ist ein wahres Wort, was schon längst ein scharfsinniger Britte gesagt hat: Human Nature is the same in all reasonable creatures...with admirers amongst Readers of all Qualities and Conditions *. Diefs ist ungefähr meine Meinung von Volkspoesie, und ich glaube, zu wissen, was ich... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 366 σελίδες
...universally tasted and approved by a multitude, though they are only the rabble of a nation, which liath not in it some peculiar aptness to please and gratify...with admirers amongst readers of all qualities and conditions. Moliere, as we are told by Monsieur Boileau, used to read all his comedies to an old woman... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 342 σελίδες
...universally tasted and approved by a multitude, though they are only the rabble of a nation, which hath not in it some peculiar aptness to please and gratify...with admirers amongst readers of all qualities and conditions. Moliere, as we are told by Monsieur Boileau, used to read all his comedies to an old woman... | |
 | 1803 - 420 σελίδες
...universally tasted and approved by a multitude, though they are only the rabble of a nation, which hath not in it some peculiar aptness to please and gratify...reasonable creatures ; and whatever falls in with if, will meet with admirers amongst readers of all qualities and conditions. Moliere, we are told by... | |
 | 1803 - 434 σελίδες
...the rabble of a nation, which hath not in it some peculiar aptness to please and gratify the rniiKl of man. Human nature is the same in all reasonable...with admirers amongst readers of all qualities and conditions. Moliere, we are told by Monsieur Boileau, used to read all his comedies to an old .woman... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 508 σελίδες
...universally tasted and approved by a multitude, though they are only the rabble of a nation, which hath not in it some peculiar aptness to please and gratify...with admirers amongst readers of all qualities and conditions. MoHere, as we are told by Monsieur Boileau, used to read all his comedies to an old woman... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 σελίδες
...universally tasted and approved by a multitude, though they are only the rabble of a nation, which hath not in it some peculiar aptness to please and gratify...with admirers amongst readers of all qualities and conditions. Moliere, as we are told by Monsieur Boileau, used to read all his comedies to an old woman... | |
 | Spectator The - 1816 - 348 σελίδες
...universally tasted and approved by a multitude, though they are only the rabble of a nation, which hath not in it some peculiar aptness to please and gratify...with admirers amongst readers of all qualities and conditions. Moliere, as we are told by Monsieur Boileau, used to read all his comedies to an old woman... | |
 | James Ford - 1818 - 430 σελίδες
...impossible that any thing should be universally ' tasted and approved of by a multitude, which hath ' not in it some peculiar aptness to please and gratify ' the mind of man." SPEcTATOR, NO. 70. I UNIVERSITY >) Of THE PREFACE. UR County Readers are here presented with some select... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 340 σελίδες
...universally tasted and approved by a multitude, though they are only the rabble of a nation, which hath not in it some peculiar aptness to please and gratify...creatures; and whatever falls in with it, will meet admirers amongst readers of all qualities and conditions. Moliere, as we are told by Monsieur Boileau,... | |
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