 Johnson's at once from meanness and from vanity. The mind of this man was indeed expanded beyond the common limits of human nature, and stored with such variety of knowledge, that I used to think it resembled a royal pleasure-ground...  Annual Register of World Events - Pàgina 31788Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1786 - 330 pàgines
....but what was formed by pride, differently modified as different occafions. fhewed it; yet never was pride fo purified as Johnfon's, at once from meannefs...expanded beyond the common limits of human nature, and ftpred with fuch variety of knowledge, that I ufed to think it refembled. a royal pleafure-ground,... | |
 | 1786 - 588 pàgines
...different occafions (hewed it | yet never w>s pride fo purified as Johnfon's, at once from meanaefs and from vanity,. The mind of this man was indeed expanded beyond the common limits of hurra i na'ui-, and ftored with fuch variety of knowledge, that 1 urcu to think it rcfemblcd a ruyal... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1788 - 556 pàgines
...was pride fo purified as Jchnfon's, at once from meannefs and from vanity. — The mind of this rqan was indeed expanded beyond the common limits of human...pleafure-ground, where every plant of every name and nation, flourilhed in the full perfection of their powers, and where, though lofty woods and falling cataracls... | |
 | 1791 - 302 pàgines
...but what was formed by pride, differently modified as different occafions fhewed it ; yet never was pride fo purified as Johnfon's, at once from meannefs and from vanity.- — ' he* mind of this man was indeed expanded beyond the common limits of human nature, and ftored... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pàgines
...piety, his charity, and his truth, the enlargement of his heart, and the delicacy of his sentiments. The mind .of this man was indeed expanded beyond the common limits of human nature, and stored vith such a variety of knowledge, that I used to think it resembled a royal pleasure ground,... | |
 | Thomas Mortimer - 1810 - 532 pàgines
...shewed it; yet never was pride so purified ai Johnson's, at once from meanness and from vanity.'—The mind of this man was indeed expanded beyond the common limits of human nature, and stored with such variety of knowledge, that I used t6 think it resembled a royal pleasure-ground, where... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 pàgines
...different occasions shewed it ; yet never was pride so purified as Johnson's, at once from meanness and from vanity. The mind of this man was, indeed,...expanded beyond the common limits of human nature, and stored with such variety of knowledge, that I used to think it resembled a royal pleasure-ground, where... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1826 - 250 pàgines
...as different occasions shewed it; yet never was pride so purified as Johnson's at once from meanness and from vanity. The mind of this man was indeed expanded beyond the common limits of human nature, and stored with such variety of knowledge, that I used to think it resembled a royal pleasure-ground, where... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 366 pàgines
...different occasions showed it ; yet never was pride so purified as Johnson's, at once from meanness and from vanity. The mind of this man was indeed expanded beyond the common limits of human nature, and stored with such variety of knowledge, that I used to think it resembled a royal pleasure-ground, where... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1836 - 656 pàgines
...different occasions showed it; yet never was pride so purified as Johnson's, at once from meanness and from vanity. The mind of this man was indeed expanded beyond the common limits of human nature, and stored with such variety of knowledge, that I used to think it resembled a royal pleasure-ground, where... | |
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