 ... 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, impassive and at leisure; as Epicurean deities making remarks on the actions of men and the vicissitudes...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 8by Samuel Johnson - 1840Full view - About this book
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...good and evil, impassive and at leisure ; as Epicurean deities making remarks on the actions of men, and the vicissitudes of life, without interest and...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 pathetick; for they never... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - English literature - 1806 - 294 pages
...good and evil, impassive and at leisure ; as Epicurean deities making remarks on the actions of men, and the vicissitudes of life, without interest and...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 pathetick ; for they never... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 336 pages
...good and evil, impassive and at leisure ; as epicurean deities, making remarks on the actions of men, and the vicissitudes of life, without interest and...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 pathetick ; for they never... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...life, without interest and without emotion. Their courtship was void of fondness, and their lameatatioa of sorrow. Their wish was only to say what they hoped...comprehension and expanse of thought, which at once fills the whola mind, and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...good and evil, impassive and at leisure ; as Epicurean deities, making remarks on the actions of men, and the vicissitudes of life, without interest and...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 pathetick ; for they... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...good and evil, impassive and at leisure ; as Epicurean deities, making remarks on the actions of men, and the vicissitudes of life, without interest and...Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetick ; for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought which at once fills... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1811 - 420 pages
...and '. evil, impassive and at leisure ; as Epicurean deities, making remarks on the actions of men, and the vicissitudes of life, without interest and...Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetick ; for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought which at once fills... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 486 pages
...good and evil, impassive and at leisure; as Epicurean deities, making remarks on the actions of men, and the vicissitudes of life, without interest and...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 pages
...good and evil, impassive and at leisure ; as Epicurean deities, making remarks on the actions of men, and the vicissitudes of life, without interest and...Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetick ; for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought which at once fills... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 470 pages
...good and evil, impassive and at leisure ; as epicurean deities, making remarks on the actions of men, and the vicissitudes of life, without interest and...sorrow. Their wish was only to say what they hoped had been never said before. "Nor was the sublime more within their reach than (tjhe pathetic ; for they... | |
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