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" Lost' has this inconvenience, that it comprises neither human actions nor human manners. The man and woman who act and suffer are in a state which no other man or woman can ever know. The reader finds no transaction in which he can be engaged ; beholds... "
The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: With Critical Observations on ... - Page 246
by Samuel Johnson - 1783
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The Annual Register, Volume 22

History - 1796 - 690 pages
...fuffier, are in a ftate which no other man or woman can ever know. The readef ' finds no tranfa&ion in which he can be engaged ; beholds no condition...himfelf; he has, therefore, little natural curiofity orVympathy. We all, indeed, feel the effefts of Adam's difobedience ; we alt fin like Adam, and like...
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Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 280 pages
...and fuffer, are in a ftate which no other man or woman can ever know. The reader finds no tranfaction in which he can be engaged ; beholds no condition...difobedience ; we all fin like .Adam, and like him mufl all bewail our offences ; we have reftlefs and infidious enemies in the fallen angels, and 03...
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Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 302 pages
...and fuffer, are in a ftate which no other man or woman can ever know. The reader finds no tranfaction in which he can be engaged ; beholds no condition...indeed, feel the effects of Adam's difobedience; we all fm like Adam, and like him muft all bewail our offences; we have reftlefs and infidious enemies in...
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The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 47

Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1779 - 510 pages
...and iuifer, are in a ftatc which no other man or woman can ever know. The reader finds no tranfaflion in which he can be engaged ; beholds no condition...imagination place himfelf; he has, therefore, little natural cimoiuy or fympathyi ' We all, indeed, feel the effefts of Adam's difobedience ; we all fin like Adam,...
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Annual Register, Volume 22

Edmund Burke - History - 1780 - 726 pages
...which no other man or woman can ever know. The reader finds no tranfaftion in which he can be engaged j beholds no condition in which he can by any effort...natural curiofity or fympathy. We all, indeed, feel the eftecls of Adam's diiobedience ; we all fin like Adam, and like him mult all bewail our offences ;...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the most eminent English poets

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 498 pages
...The reader finds no tranfaction in which he fan be engaged ; beholds no condition in which hq M 3 can can by any effort of imagination place himfelf ; he...fympathy. We all, indeed, feel the effects of Adam's difobediencc; we all fin like Adam, and like him muft all bewail our offences ; we have reftlefs and...
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The lives of the most eminent English poets

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...and fuffer, are in a ftate which no other man or woman can ever know. The reader finds no tranfacHon in which he Can be engaged ; beholds no condition...can by. any effort of imagination place himfelf ; he has3 therefore, little natural curiofity or fympathy. We all, indeed, feel the effects of Adam's difobedicnce...
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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for ...

History - 1796 - 692 pages
...and fuller, are in a ftate which no other man or woman can ever know. The reader finds no tranfadion in which he can be engaged ; beholds no condition...natural curiofity or fympathy. We all, indeed, feel the effedli of Adam's difobedience ; we ill (in like Adam, and like him muft all bewail our offences ;...
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Paradise Lost: With Notes, Selected from Newton and Others, to ..., Volumes 1-2

John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...and suffer, are in a state which no other man or woman can ever know. The reader finds no transaction in which he can be engaged ; beholds no condition in which he can by any effort of imagination place himself; he has, therefore, little natural curiosity or sympathy. We all, indeed, feel the effects...
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Johnson's Lives of the the English Poets: Abridged: with Notes and Illustrations

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1797 - 278 pages
...and fuffer, are in a ftate which no other man or woman can ever know. The reader finds no tranfaction in -which he can be engaged ; beholds no condition...•which he can by any effort of imagination place himfe1f ; he has, therefore, little natural curiofity or fympathy." In the Poem itfelf, there is "...
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