 | 1907 - 506 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... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 384 pages
...estimate the happiness and misery of every condii ion, 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... | |
 | Joseph Carroll - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 308 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" ( p. 44). The elementary passions and... | |
 | Joseph Carroll - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 304 pages
...Johnson declares that "Nature and Passion" are "always the same," but he also argues that the poet must "trace the changes of the human mind as they are modified by various institutions and accidental influences of climate or custom." Moreover, Taine himself compares various... | |
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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... 
