 ... wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ; as beings looking upon good and evil, impassive and at leisure ; as Epicurean deities making remarks on the actions of men, and the vicissitudes of life, without interest and without emotion.  Annual Register - Page 24publié par - 1780Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 pages
...pains and the pleasure of other minds: they never enquired what, on any occasion, they should have said or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers...human nature ; as beings looking upon good and evil, impassive and at leisure ; as epicurean deities, making remarks on the actions of men, and the vicissitudes... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 428 pages
...and the pleasures of other minds ; they never inquired what, on any occasion, they should have said or done; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers...human nature ; as beings looking upon good and evil, impassive and at leisure, as Epicurean deities, making remarks on the actions of men, and the vicissitudes... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 426 pages
...and the pleasures of other minds ; they never inquired what, on any occasion, they should have said or done; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers...human nature ; as beings looking upon good and evil, impassive and at leisure, as Epicurean deities, making remarks on the actions of men, and the vicissitudes... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 348 pages
...pains and the pleasure of other minds; they never inquired what, on any occasion, they should have said or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature; as Beings looking upon good or evil, impassive and at leisure; as Epicurean deities, making remarks on the actions of men, and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 pages
...and the pleasures of other minds ; they never inquired what, on any occasion, they should have said or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers...human nature ; as beings looking upon good and evil, impassive and at leisure, as Epicurean deities, making remarks on the actions of men, and the vicissitudes... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 404 pages
...and the pleasures of other minds ; they never inquired what, on any occasion, they should have said or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers...human nature ; as beings looking upon good and evil, impassive and at leisure, as Epicurean deities, making remarks on the actions of men, and the vicissitudes... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 pages
...and the pleasure of other minds : they never inquired what, on any occasion, they should have said or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers...human nature ; as beings looking upon good and evil, impassive and at leisure : as Epicurean deities, making remarks on the actions of men, and the vicissitudes... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...and the pleasure of other minds ; they never inquired what, on any occasion, they should have said or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers...human nature ; as beings looking upon good and evil, impassive and at leisure ; as Epicurean deities, making remarks on the actions of men, and the vicissitudes... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 430 pages
...pains and the pleasure of other minds: they never inquired what, on any occasion, they should have said or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers...human nature ; as beings looking upon good and evil, impassive and at leisure; as Epicurean deities, making remarks on the actions of men, and the vicissitndes... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 pages
...»nd the pleasures of other minds ; they never inquired what, on any occasion, they should have said or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers...human nature ; as beings looking upon good and evil, impassive and at leisure ; as Epicurean deities, making remarks on the actions of men, and the vicissitudes... | |
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