 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 σελίδες
...what, on any occasion, they should have said or done; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature; as beings looking upon good and evil,...sorrow. Their wish was only to say what they hoped had been never said before. NOT was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetic; for they never... | |
 | 1878 - 446 σελίδες
...what, on any occasion, they should have said or done, but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ; as beings looking upon good and evil,...sorrow. Their wish was only to say what they hoped had been never said before. Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetic; for they never... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 σελίδες
...on any occasion, they should have said or done, but wrote &o rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ; as beings looking upon good and evil,...void of fondness, and their lamentation of sorrow. 65 62, 63. Epicurean deities. According to the doctrine of the Greek philosopher Epicu'rus (BC 342-270),... | |
 | Thomas Sergeant Perry - 1883 - 500 σελίδες
...obscurity. According to him, " They were wholly employed on something unexpected and surprising. . . . Their courtship was void of fondness, and their lamentation...to say what they hoped had never been said before." Yet, he acknowledged, " great labor, directed by great ability, is never wholly lost ; if they frequently... | |
 | William Swinton - 1886 - 690 σελίδες
...on any occasion, they should have said or done, but wrote 60 rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ; as beings looking upon good and evil,...void of fondness, and their lamentation of sorrow. 65 62,63. Epicurean deities. According to the doctrine of the Greek philosopher Epicu'rus (BC 342-270),... | |
 | Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - 1893 - 284 σελίδες
...what, on any occasion, they should have said or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ; as beings looking upon good and evil,...sorrow. Their wish was only to say what they hoped had been never said before. Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetic ; for they never... | |
 | Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - 1893 - 288 σελίδες
...what, on any occasion, they should have said or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ; as beings looking upon good and evil,...sorrow. Their wish was only to say what they hoped had been never said before. Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetic ; for they never... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 484 σελίδες
...what, on any occasion, they should hare said or done; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature; as beings looking upon good and evil,...deities, making remarks on the actions of men, and the vicisritudes of life, without interest and without emotion. Their courtship was void of fondness, and... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 704 σελίδες
...what, on any occasion, they should have said or done, but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature • as beings looking upon good and evil,...sorrow. Their wish was only to say what they hoped had been never said before. Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetic ; for they never... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 670 σελίδες
...what, on any occasion, they should have said or done, but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ; as beings looking upon good and evil,...sorrow. Their wish was only to say what they hoped had been never said before. Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetic ; for they never... | |
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... they had no regard to that uniformity of sentiment which enables us to conceive and to excite the pains and the pleasure of other minds ; they never inquired what, on any occasion, they should have said or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than... 
