 Many writers, for the sake of following nature, so mingle good and bad qualities in their principal personages, that they are both equally conspicuous ; and as we accompany them through their adventures with delight, and are led by degrees to interest...  The Rambler - Page 22by Samuel Johnson - 1809Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1752 - 326 pages
...mingle good and bad qualities in their principal perfonages, that they are both equally confpicuous ; and as we accompany them through their adventures with delight, and are led by degrees to intereft ourfelves in their favour, we lofe the abhorrence of their faults, becaufe they do not hinder... | |
 | 1785 - 596 pages
...mingle good and bad qualities in their principal perfonagc?, that they are both equally confpicuous ; and as we accompany them through their adventures with delight, and are led by degrees to ¡ntcreft ourftlves in their favour, we lofe the abhorrence of their faults, becaufc they do not hinder... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 466 pages
...and bad qualities in their principal perfonages, that they are both equally confpicuous ; and as \ve accompany them through their adventures with delight, and are led by degrees to intereft onrfelves in their favour, we lofe the abhorrence of their faults, becaufe they do not hinder... | |
 | Charles Moore (rector of Cuxton.) - Dueling - 1790 - 482 pages
...mingle good and bad qualities in their principal perfonages, that they are both equally confpicuous ; and as we accompany them through their adventures with delight, and are led by degrees to intereft ourfelves in their favour, we lofe the abhorrence of their faults, becaufe they do not hinder... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 626 pages
...mingle good and bad qualities in their principal perfonages, that they are both equally conipicuous ; and as we accompany them through their adventures with delight, and are led by degrees to intereft ourfelves in their favour, we lofe the abhorrence of their faults, becaufe they do not hinder... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 450 pages
...mingle good and bad qualiticj in their principal perfonages, that they are both equally confpicuous ; and as we accompany them through their adventures with delight, and are led by degrees to intereft ourfelves in their favour, we lofe the abhorrence of their faults, becaufc they do not hinder... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 460 pages
...mingle good and bad qualities in their principal perfonages, that they are both equally confpicuous; and as we accompany them through their adventures with delight, and are led by degrees to intereft ourfelves in their favour, we lofe the abhorrence of their faults, bccaufe they do not hinder... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 460 pages
...mingle good and bad qualities in their principal perfonages, that they are both equally confpicuous ; and as we accompany them through their adventures with delight, and are led by degrees to intereft ourfelves in their favour, we lofe the abhorrence of their faults, becaufe they do not hinder... | |
 | 1801 - 342 pages
...mingle good and bad qualities in their principal perfonages, that they are both equally confpicuous; and as we accompany them through their adventures with delight, and are led by degrees to intereft ourfelves in their favour, we lofe the abhorrence of their faults, becaufe they do not hinder... | |
 | Samuel Miller - Art, Modern - 1805 - 432 pages
...writers," says a celebrated critic and moralist*, " for the sake, as they tell us, of following nature, so mingle good and bad qualities in their principal personages,...to interest ourselves in their favour, we lose the abhor* fence of their faults because they do not hinder our pleasure, or perhaps regard them with kindness... | |
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