The freaks, and humours, and spleen, and vanity of women, as they embroil families in discord, and fill houses with disquiet, do more to obstruct the happiness of life in a year than the ambition of the clergy in many centuries. Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson - Страница 154по Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 323 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
| Samuel Johnson - 1890 - 480 страници
...they had both succeeded, it were easy to tell who would have deserved most from publick gratitude. The freaks, and humours, and spleen, and vanity of...with disquiet, do more to obstruct the happiness of lif e in a year than the ambition of the clergy in many centuries. It has been well observed, that... | |
| Alexander Pope, Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1893 - 588 страници
...to the Lutrin, scarcely required to be refuted with mock gravity by Dr Johnson, who declares that ' the freaks, and humours, and spleen, and vanity of...than the ambition of the clergy in many centuries.' Strange to say, the opposite objection has recently been made to a work of which the execution has... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1893 - 566 страници
...to the Lnlrin, scarcely required to be refuted with mock gravity by Dr Johnson, who declares that ' the freaks, and humours, and spleen, and vanity of...than the ambition of the clergy in many centuries." Strange to say, the opposite objection has recently been made to a work of which the execution has... | |
| Rev. James Wood - 1893 - 694 страници
...treasures, Geliert. The miserable have no other medicine, , But only hope. Mr(u.fcr J/inu.» üi. i. m die grimme Pein?— The youth longs so to love, the maiden so to be loved ; ah ! why do vexatious continually repeated. JchnThe misfortune in the state is that nobody САП enjoy life in... | |
| Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 страници
...gravity proceeding from dulness and mere incapability of enjoyment, which is most base. — liuskin. It has been well observed that the misery of man proceeds...evil, but from small vexations continually repeated. — Johnson. The calm or agitation of our temper does not depend so much on the important events of... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1896 - 634 страници
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| 1835 - 286 страници
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| Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 236 страници
...they had both succeeded, it were easy to tell who would have deserved most from public gratitude.. The freaks, and humours, and spleen, and vanity of...do more to obstruct the happiness of life in a year thai) the ambition of the clergy in many centuries. It has been well observed, that the misery of man... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 228 страници
...of a moral, and for that reason sets it below the Lutrin, which exposes the pride and discord of the centuries. It has been well observed, that the misery...evil, but from small vexations continually repeated. It is remarked by Dennis, likewise, that the machinery is superfluous ; that by all the bustle of preternatural... | |
| 1899 - 704 страници
...treasures. Geilert. The miserable have no other medicine, / But only hope. Mfas.fvr Affas.t iii. i. The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush...evil, but from small vexations continually repeated. . son. The misfortune in the state is that nobody c¿a enjoy life in peace, but that everybody must... | |
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