 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 660 σελίδες
...they were not successful in representing or moving the affections. As they were wholly employed on something unexpected and surprising, they had no regard...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... | |
 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1896 - 366 σελίδες
...they were not successful in representing or moving the affections. As they were wholly employed on something unexpected and surprising, they had no regard...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... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1907 - 424 σελίδες
...they were not successful in representing or moving the affections. As they were wholly employed on something unexpected and surprising, they had no regard...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... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 σελίδες
...they were not successful in representing or moving the affections. As they were wholly employed on something unexpected and surprising, they had no regard...uniformity of sentiment which enables us to conceive and to excite the pains and the pleasure of other minds : they never enquired what, on any occasion, they... | |
 | Laurie Magnus - 1926 - 618 σελίδες
...learning, and to show their learning was their whole endeavour. ... As they were wholly employed on something unexpected and surprising, they had no regard...uniformity of sentiment which enables us to conceive and to excite the pains and the pleasure of other minds ' (Essay on Cowley) ; and Dr. Johnson's examples... | |
 | René Wellek - 1981 - 378 σελίδες
...expectations of emotional satisfaction. "They were not successful in representing or moving the affections." "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 enquired what on any occasion they... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 σελίδες
..."They were not successful in representing or moving the affections. As they were wholly employed on something unexpected and surprising they had no regard...uniformity of sentiment, which enables us to conceive and to excite the pains and the pleasures of other minds" (Lives, I, 10). Good literature for Johnson -... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 2002 - 238 σελίδες
...lover, or what it might mean. This is probably why Johnson remarks that "as they were wholly employed on something unexpected and surprising they had no regard...uniformity of sentiment, which enables us to conceive and to excite the pains and the pleasure of other minds" (para. 57 my emphasis). The experience of weeping... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 530 σελίδες
...successful in representing or moving the affections. Aa they were wholly employed on something unexpected or surprising, 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... | |
 | René Wellek - 1978 - 768 σελίδες
...íi. Lives, I (Cowley), 20: »They were not successful in representing or moving the affections.« »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 enquired what on any occasion they... | |
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As they were wholly employed on something unexpected and surprising, 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... 
