| Midwife - 1750 - 302 pages
...inquina vere, £s° genut, £ff demos* Hoc Fonte derivata eludes, In Patriam Populumque jluxit. HoR. TH E Reader is indebted for this Day's Entertainment, to...enlarged the Knowledge of human Nature, and taught the Paffions to move at the Command of Virtue. r fa the RAMBLE R. XTTHEN the SPECTATOR was firft publifhed... | |
| 1751 - 224 pages
...Primum inquinavere, et genus, et domos ; Hoc fonte derivata eludes, In patriam populumque fuxit. HoR. THE reader is indebted for this day's entertainment...enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and taught the paffions to move at (he command of virtue. To the RAMBLER. WHen the SPECTAToR was full publifhcd in... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1763 - 292 pages
...polluted fountain-head, O'er Rcme and o'er the nations fpread. FRANCIS. TH E reader is indebted for thb day's entertainment to an author from whom the age...enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and taught the paflions to move at the command of virtue. To the RAMBLER. SIR, WHEN the SPECTATOR was firft publifhed... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1784 - 372 pages
...various and unnumber'd rofe From this polluted fountain head, O'er Rime and o'er the nations fpread. FRANCIS. THE reader is indebted for this day's entertainment...enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and taught the pafllons to move at the command of virtue. To the RAMBLER. SIR, WHEN the SPECTATOR was firft publifhed... | |
| 1785 - 596 pages
...WHICH VARIOUS AND VNNUMBXIt'D ROtI FROM THIS FOLLUTID FOUNTAIN HEAD, ROME AKD 0'IR TH> NATION! (TRIAD. FRANCIS. THE reader is indebted for this day's entertainment...greater favours, who has enlarged the knowledge of human natu re, and taught the paffions to move at the command of virtue. TO THE RAMBLER. 8IR, the Spectator... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 472 pages
...and unqumber'd roft From this polluted fountain head, O'er Rent and o'er the nations fpread. FtAXCi*. THE reader is indebted for this day's entertainment...enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and taught the paXTiODS to move at the command of virtue. SIR, To the RAMBLER. the SPECTATOR was firft publifhed In... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 460 pages
...and unnumber'd rofe From this polluted fountain head, O'er Rome and o'er the nations fpread. FRANCU. THE reader is indebted for this day's entertainment...enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and taught the paflions to move at the command of virtue. t SIR, To the RAMBLER. HEN the SPECTATOR was firft publifhed... | |
| Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1796 - 426 pages
...of the Rambler, which wa» written by Mr Richardfon, obferves, that the reader was indebted for that day's entertainment to an author, " from whom the...enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and taught the pafíions to move at the command of virtue ;" and, in his Life of Rowe, he fays, " The character of... | |
| 1798 - 432 pages
...it is well known, was written by Mr. Richardfon ; in the preamble to which Dr. John ton Itylcs him " an author from whom the age has received greater favours,...enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and taught the paffions to move at the command of Virtue." In the " Anecdotes of Bovvyer," are collected a confiderable... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...Talbot ; No. Q7, by Mr. Samuel Richardson, whom he describes in an introductory note as " An author who has enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and...taught the passions to move at the command of virtue ;" and Numbers 44 and 10O, by Mrs. Elizabeth Carter. Posterity will be astonished when they are told,... | |
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