 | James Boswell - 1874 - 602 pages
...Talbot ; No. 97, by Mr. Samuel Richardson, whom he describes in an introductory note as " An authour who has enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and...taught the passions to move at the command of virtue;" and Numbers 44 and 100, by Mrs. Elizabeth Carter. Posterity will be astonished when they are told,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 576 pages
...indebted for this day's entertainment to an author from whom the age has received greater favours, s well illustrated by Cowper in one of his letters : " The mind and body," says he, " have (Dr. Johnson). To THE RAMBLER. SIE, When the Spectator was first published in single papers, it gave... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1880 - 488 pages
...Catherine Talbot ; No. 97, by Mr. Samuel Kichardson, whom he describes in an introductory note, as " an author who has enlarged the knowledge of human...taught the passions to move at the command of virtue ;" and Numbers 44 and 100, by Mrs. Elizabeth Carter. Posterity will be astonished when they are told,... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1884 - 742 pages
...Catherine Talbot ; No. 97, by Mr. Samuel Richardson, whom he describes in an introductory note, as " an author who has enlarged the knowledge of human...taught the passions to move at the command of virtue ; " 1 and Numbers 44, and 100, by Mrs. Elizabeth Carter. Posterity will be astonished when they are... | |
 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - Theater - 1884 - 326 pages
...Johnson, therefore, who at this time was well acquainted with this ingenious author— who, he says, ' has enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and taught the passions to move at the command of virtue ' — promised to introduce the artist and his sister ; and accordingly carried them down to the bookseller's... | |
 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - Theater - 1885 - 306 pages
...Johnson, therefore, who at this time was well acquainted with this ingenious author — who, he says, ' has enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and taught the passions to move at the command of virtue ' — promised to introduce the artist and his sister ; and accordingly carried them down to the bookseller's... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1887 - 576 pages
...Catharine Talbots ; No. 97, by Mr. Samuel Richardson, whom he describes in an introductory note as ' An author who has enlarged the knowledge of human...taught the passions to move at the command of virtue ;' and Nos. 44 and 100 by Mrs. Elizabeth Carter. Posterity will be astonished when they are told, upon... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1887 - 598 pages
...Catharine Talbot5 ; No. 97, by Mr. Samuel Richardson, whom he describes in an introductory note as ' An author who has enlarged the knowledge of human...taught the passions to move at the command of virtue ;' and Nos. 44 and 100 by Mrs. Elizabeth Carter. Posterity will be astonished when they are told, upon... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1888 - 608 pages
...Talbot; No. 97, by Mr. Samuel Richardson, whom he describes in an introductory note as " An authour who has enlarged the knowledge of human nature, and...taught the passions to move at the command of virtue;" and Numbers 44 and 100, by Mrs. Elizabeth Carter. Posterity will be astonished when they are told,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 574 pages
...Catherine Talbot ; No. 97, by Mr. Samuel Richardson, whom he describes in an introductory note, as " an author who has enlarged the knowledge of human...taught the passions to move at the command of virtue ; "3 and Numbers 44, and 100, by Mrs. Elizabeth Carter. 1 This is a mistake, into which the author... | |
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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 100, by Mrs. 
