| 1785 - 596 pages
...not certain that the tragick and aimick affections have been moved alternately with equal force, ind that no plays have oftener filled the eye with tears, and the breaft with palpitation, than thofe which are variegated with interludes of mirth ? ^ I do not however... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 416 pages
...rather fubtk than juft ? Is k hbt certain that the tragick and comick affections have * • been 99 been moved alternately with equal force, and that...plays have oftener filled the eye with tears, and the breaft with palpitation, than thofe which are variegated with interludes of mirth ? I do not however... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 422 pages
...juft ? Is it not certain that• the tragick. and comick affections hare been N°is6- THE RAMBLER. 99 been moved alternately with equal force, and that...plays have oftener filled the eye with tears, and the breaft with palpitation, than thofe which are variegated with interludes of mirth ? I do not however... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 444 pages
...experience fhew this objection to be rather fubtle than juft ? Is it not certain that the tragick and comick affections have been moved alternately with equal...plays have oftener filled the eye with tears, and the breaft with palpitation, than thofe which are variegated with interludes of mirth ? I do not however... | |
| 1801 - 344 pages
...objection to be rather fubtle than juil ? Is it not certain that the tragick and comick affedtions have been moved alternately with equal force, and...plays have oftener filled the eye with tears, and the breaft with palpitation, than thofe which are variegated with interludes of mirth ? I do not however... | |
| 1806 - 420 pages
...juft ? Is it not certain that the tragick and comick affections have i been. N-I56. THE RAMBLER. 99 been moved alternately with equal force, and that...plays have oftener filled the eye with tears, and the breaft with palpitation, than thofe which are varie» gated with interludes of mirth ? I do not however... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 334 pages
...experience shew this objection to be rather subtle than just ? Is it not certain that the tragick and comick affections have been moved alternately with equal force, and that no plays haveoftener filled the eye with tears, and the breast with palpitation, than those which are variegated... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1811 - 370 pages
...experience shew this objection to be rather subtle than just ? Is it not certain that the tragick and comick affections have been moved alternately with equal...? I do not however think it safe to judge of works ef genius merely by the event. The resistless vicissitudes of the heart, this alternate prevalence... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 414 pages
...certain that the tragick and comick affections have »cjo sv ••; . . :: \ jv!: -;.'':' ^,:. i-^.,c been moved alternately with equal force, a.nd that...breast with palpitation, than .those• which are vaj-j& g§ted jvUbJjoJjeiJudes ^ of mirth ? I do not however think it safe to judge of works of genius... | |
| 1822 - 370 pages
...experience show this objection to be rather subtle than just? Is it not certain that the tragic and comic affections have been moved alternately with equal force, and that no plays have oftener filled the eyes with tears and the breast with palpitation than those which are variegated with interludes of... | |
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