 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth. His figures neither divert by distortion, nor amaze by aggravation. He copies life with so much fidelity, that he can be hardly said to invent : yet his exhibitions have an air so much original, that it is difficult to... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 434 pages
...raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth. His figures neither divert by distortion, nor amaze by aggravation. He copies life with so much fidelity, that he can be hardly said to invent ; yet his exhibitions have an air so much original, that it is difficult to... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 420 pages
...raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth. His figures neither divert by distortion, nor amaze by aggravation. He copies life with so much fidelity, that he can be hardly said to invent ; yet his exhibitions have an air so much original, that it is difficult to... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth. His figures neither divert by distortion, nor amaze by aggravation. He copies life with so much fidelity, that he can be hardly said to invent : yet bis exhibitions have an air so much original, that it is difficult to... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 376 pages
...merriment or wonder by the violation of truth. His figures neither divert by distortion, nor amuse by aggravation. He copies life with so much fidelity,...difficult to suppose them not merely the product of the imagination *." On this encomium of our learned Biographer, Dr. Beattie has bestowed lavish commendation.... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 370 pages
...merriment or wonder by the violation of truth. His figures neither divert by distortion, nor amuse by aggravation. He copies life with so much fidelity,...difficult to suppose them not merely the product of the imagination *." On this encomium of our learned Biographer, Dr. Beattie has bestowed lavish commendation.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 620 pages
...by distortion, nor amaze by aggravation. He copies life with so much Sdelity that he can be hardly said to invent ; yet his exhibitions have an air so...is difficult to suppose them not merely the product >Г imagination. Äs a teacher of wisdom, he may be confidently followed. His religion has lothing... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 422 pages
...by distortion, nor amaze by aggravation. He copies life with so much fidelity, that he can be hardly said to invent ; yet his exhibitions have an air so much original, that it is diffiv cult to suppose them not merely the product of imagination. As a teacher of wisdom, he may be... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 598 pages
...raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth. His figures neither divert by distortion, nor amaze by aggravation. He copies life with so much fidelity that he can be hardly said to invent ; yet his exhibitions have an air so much original, that it is difficult to... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 664 pages
...raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth. His figures neither divert by distortion, nor amaze by aggravation. He copies life with so much fidelity that he can be hardly said to invent; yet his exhibitions have an air so much original, that it is difficult to... | |
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outsteps the modesty of nature," nor raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth. His figures neither divert by distortion, nor amaze by aggravation. He copies life with so much fidelity that he can... 
