| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...beholders than partakers of human nature ; as Beings looking upon good and evil, impaffive and at leifure ; as Epicurean deities making remarks on the actions of men, and the viciffitudes of life, without intereft and without emotion. Their courtfhip was void of fondnefs, and... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 498 pages
...beholders than partakers of human nature; as Beings looking upon good and evil, impaffive and at leifure; as Epicurean deities making remarks on the actions of men, and the viciffitudes of life, without intereft and without emotion. Their courtfhip was void of fondnefs, and... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...beholders than partakers of human nature; as Beings looking upon good and evil, impaffive and at leifure; as Epicurean deities, making remarks on the actions of men, and the vicifluudes of life, without interefl and without emotion. Their courtfhip was void of fondnefs, and... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1795 - 610 pages
...than partakers of human nature ,- as Beings looking upon good and evil, impaflive and at leifure ; as Epicurean deities making remarks on the actions of men, and the viciflitudes of life, without intereft and without emotion. Their courtfhip was void of fondnefs, and... | |
| History - 1796 - 692 pages
...beholders than partakers of human nature ; as Beings looking upon good and evil, impaflive and ac Iciuiro ; as Epicurean deities making remarks on the actions of men, and the viciffitndes of life, without intereft and without emotion. Their courtlhip was void of fondnefs, and... | |
| Alexander Pope - English literature - 1797 - 444 pages
...beholders than partakers of human nature ; as beings looking upon good and evil, impaffive and at leifure, as Epicurean deities, making remarks on the actions of men, and the viciffiuides of life, without intereft and without emotion. Their courtmip was void of fondnefs, and... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1797 - 442 pages
...beholders than partakers of human nature ; as beings looking upon good and evil, impaffive and at leifure, as Epicurean deities, making remarks on the actions of men, and the viciffitudes of life, without intereft and without emotion. Their courtfhip was \'oid of fondnefs,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...rather as beholders thart partakers of human riaturq^ as Beings looking upon good and evil, impassive nd at leisure ; as Epicurean deities making remarks on...life; without interest and without emotion. Their Ğramhip was void of fondness, and their lamentation of sorrow. Their wisli was only to say what they... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 pages
...beholders than partakers of human nature ; as Beings looking upon good and evil, impaffive and at leifure ; as Epicurean deities, making remarks on the actions of men, and the viciffitudes of life, without intereft and without emotion. Their courtfhip was void of fondnefs, and... | |
| Tobias Smollett - Books - 1802 - 612 pages
...only aim was to say what had never been said before. They wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature, as beings looking upon good and evil...as Epicurean deities, making remarks on the actions ofir.cn, and the vicissitudes of life, without interest, and tion. Their courtship was void of fondness,... | |
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