 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 248 pages
...inftruction, feigned to act and fpeak with human interefts and paflions. To this defcription the compofitions of Gay do not always conform. For a Fable he gives now and then a Tale or an Allegory ; and from fome, by whatever name they may be called, it will be difficult to extract any... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 474 pages
...feigned to act and fpeak with human interefts and paffions. To this de. fcription the competitions of Gay do not always conform. For a Fable he gives now and then a Tale or an Allegory; and from fome, by-whatever name they may be. called, jt will be difficult to extract aiiy... | |
 | SAMUEL JOHNSON - 1781 - 254 pages
...inftruction, feigned to a£l and fpeak with human interefts and paffions. To this defcription the compofitions of Gay do not always conform. For a Fable he gives now and then a. Tale or an Allegory ; and from fome, by whatever name they may be called, it will be difficult to extract any... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 474 pages
...with human interefts and paflions. To this defcription the compofitions of Gay do nof always confprm. For a Fable he gives now and then a Tale or an Allegory; and from fome, by whatever name they may be called, it will be difficult to extract any moral... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 332 pages
...inftruftion, feigned to aft and fpeak with human intercfts and paffions. To this defcription the compofitions of Gay do not always conform. For a Fable he gives now and then a Tale, or an abftrafted Allegory ; and from fome, by whatever name they may be called, it will be difficult to extraft... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 444 pages
...inftruction, feigned to act and fpeak with human interefts and paffions. To this defcription the compofitions of Gay do not always conform. For a Fable he gives now and then a Tale, or an abftrafted Allegory; and from fome, by whatever name they may be called, it will be difficult to extract... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 906 pages
...favourite work. Of this kind of fables he docs not appear to hive formed any diftinct or fettled notion. For a Fable he gives now and then a Tale, or an abiiracitd -Allegory ; and from fome, by whatever name they arc called, it will be difficult to cxtraâ... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 424 pages
...inftruction, feigned to act and fpeak with human interefts and paffions. To this defcription the compolitions of Gay do not always conform. For a Fable he gives now and then a Tale, or an abftracted Allegory ; and from fome, by whatever name they may be called, it will be difficult to extract... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...narrative, in which beings irrational, and sometimes inanimate, arbores loquuntur, non tantumferts, are, for the purpose of moral instruction, feigned...description the compositions of Gay do not always con* Speact. form, forte. For a Fable he gives now and then a Tale, or an abstracted Allegory ; and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 464 pages
...a narrative in which beings irrational, and sometimes inanimate, arbores loguuntur, non tantumfere, are, for the purpose of moral instruction, feigned...and from some, by whatever name they may be called, it will be difficult to extract any moral principle. They are, however, told with liveliness ; the... | |
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... are, for the purpose of moral instruction, feigned to act and speak with human interests and passions. To this description the compositions of Gay do not always conform. For a fable he gives now and then a tale, or an abstracted allegory; and from... 
