 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 492 trang
...power of Richardson alone, to teach us at once esteem and detestation ; to make virtuous resentment overpower all the benevolence which wit, and elegance, and courage, naturally excite ; and to lose at last the hero in the villain."1 Still, however, it is impossible altogether to vindicate Richardson... | |
 | David M'Nicoll - 1837 - 688 trang
...power of Richardson alone to teach us at once esteem and detestation ; to make virtuous resentment overpower all the benevolence which wit, and elegance, and courage, naturally excite ; and to lose at last the hero in the villain." He adds elsewhere, " There is always danger, lest wickedness,... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1825 - 622 trang
...power of Richardson alone, to teach us at once esteem and detestation ; to make virtuous resentment overpower all the benevolence which wit, and elegance, and courage, naturally excite; and to lose at last the hero in the villain."* Still, however, it is impossible altogether to vindicate Richardson... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1847 - 726 trang
...power of Richardson alone, to teach us at once esteem and detestation ; to make virtuous resentment overpower all the benevolence which wit, and elegance, and courage, naturally excite ; and to lose at last the hero in the villain, t , Still, however, it is impossible altogether to vindicate... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 616 trang
...power of Richardson alone, to teach us at once esteem and detestation ; to make virtuous resentment overpower all the benevolence which wit, and elegance, and courage, naturally excite ; and to lose at last the hero in the villain. — JOHNSON, SAMUEL, 1779-81, Rowe, Lives of the English Poets.... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1914 - 406 trang
...power of Richardson alone, to teach us at once esteem and detestation; to make virtuous resentment overpower all the benevolence which wit. and elegance, and courage, naturally excite: and to lose at last the hero in the villain. — DR. JOHNSON. Lothario, in Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Lehrjahre,... | |
 | Jocelyn Harris - 2003 - 288 trang
...power of Richardson alone, to teach us at once esteem and detestation; to make virtuous resentment overpower all the benevolence which wit, and elegance, and courage, naturally excite; and to lose at last the hero in the villain. (cvii-cviii) The problem, as Mrs Barbauld saw, was that to attract... | |
 | 1829 - 556 trang
...Richardson alone, to teach us at once esteem and detestation, to make virtuous resentment overpower a II the benevolence which wit, and elegance and courage naturally excite, and to lose at last the hero in the villain." To the minor romance or English Novel, must Smollet also be... | |
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... excelled his original in the moral effect of the fiction. Lothario, with gaiety which cannot be hated, and bravery which cannot be despised, retains too much of the spectator's kindness. It was in the power of Richardson alone to teach us at once... 
