 | James Boswell - 1922 - 538 Seiten
...seems not much acquainted. He is, therefore, with all his variety of excellence, not often pathetic ; and had so little sensibility of the power of effusions...his tragedy, of which the subject is the distress of ar unfortunate princess, there is not a single passage that ever drew a tear. Various Readings in the... | |
 | Edmund David Jones - 1922 - 522 Seiten
...ambition, or exasperated revenge. He is therefore, with all his variety of excellence, not often pathetic ; and had so little sensibility of the power of effusions...purely natural, that he did not esteem them in others. Simplicity gave him no pleasure ; and for the first part of his life he looked on Otway with contempt,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1925 - 660 Seiten
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 | 1943 - 490 Seiten
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 | John Dryden, William Congreve, Samuel Johnson, Walter Scott - 1925 - 230 Seiten
...or exasperated revenge. He is therefore, with all his variety- of excellence, not often pathetic ; and had so little sensibility of the power of effusions purely natural, that he did not esteem them 30 in others. Simplicity gave him no pleasure ; and for the first part of his life he looked on Otway... | |
 | James Boswell - 1931 - 1260 Seiten
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 | James Boswell - 1934 - 1434 Seiten
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 | James Boswell - 1934 - 586 Seiten
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 | John Dryden - 1946 - 232 Seiten
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... felt; and produced sentiments not such as Nature enforces, but meditation supplies. With the simple and elemental passions as they spring separate in the mind, he seems not much acquainted. He is, therefore, with all his variety of excellence, not... 
