 | Samuel Johnson - English fiction - 1816 - 250 pages
...estimate the happiness and misery of every condition ; observe the power of all the passions in all their combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind as they are modified by various institutions and accidental influences of climate or custom, from the sprightliness of infancy to the... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...estimate the happiness and misery of every condition, observe the power of all the passions in all their combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind as they are modified by various institutions, and accidental influences of climate or custom, from the sprightliness of infancy to... | |
 | English literature - 1820 - 286 pages
...estimate the happiness and misery of every condition ; observe the power of all the passions in all their combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind, as they are modified by various institutions and accidental influences of climate or custom, from the sprightliness of infancy to the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 278 pages
...estimate the happiness and misery of every condition ; observe the power of all the passions in all their combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind, as they are modified by various institutions and accidental influences of climate or custom, from the sprightliness of infancy to the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 456 pages
...estimate the happiness and misery of every condition; observe the power of all the passions in all their combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind as they are modified by various institutions and accidental influences of climate or custom, from the sprightliness of infancy to the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 466 pages
...estimate the happiness and misery of every condition ; observe the power of all the passions in all their combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind as they are modified by various institutions and accidental influences of climate or custom, from the sprightliness of infancy to the... | |
 | John Watkins - 1822 - 452 pages
...estimates the happiness and misery of every condition, observe the power of all the passions, in all their combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind as they are modified by various institutions and accidental influences of climate or custom, from the sprightliness of infancy to the... | |
 | John Watkins - Poets, English - 1822 - 476 pages
...and misery of every condition, observe the power of all the passions, in 160 THE END OF POETRY. all their combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind as they are modified by various institutions and accidental influences of climate or custom, from the sprightliness of infancy to the... | |
 | English literature - 1822 - 1148 pages
...every condition—to observe the power of all the passions in all their combinations—and to trace all the changes of the human mind, as they are modified by various institutions and accidental influences of climate or custom,' is a task too mighty for a single mind.... | |
 | English literature - 1822 - 582 pages
...condition — to observe the power of all the passions in all their combinations — and to trace all the changes of the human mind, as they are modified by various institutions and accidental influences of climate or custom,' is a task too mighty for a single mind.... | |
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But the knowledge of nature is only half the task of a poet; he must be acquainted likewise with all the modes of life. His character requires that he estimate the happiness and misery of every condition ; observe the power of all the passions in all... 
