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 Johnsonпо Samuel Johnson, George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1888 - 323 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 428 страници
...With varying vanities,] " The freaks and humours, and spleen and vanity, of women (says Dr. Johnson), as they embroil families in discord, and fill houses...obstruct the happiness of life in a year, than the pride, ambition, and discord, of the clergy (as described in the Lutrin), in many centuries." I cannot... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 426 страници
...With varying vanities,} " The freaks and humours, and spleen and vanity, of women (says Dr. Johnson), as they embroil families in discord, and fill houses...obstruct the happiness of life in a year, than the pride, ambition, and discord, of the clergy (as described in the Lutrin), in many centuries." I cannot... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 410 страници
...they had both sueceeded, it were easy to tell who would have deserved most from publick gratitude. The freaks, and humours, and spleen, and vanity of...than the ambition of the clergy in many centuries. I It has been well observed, that the misery of man | proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 384 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...misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of over whelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated. It is remarked by Dennis likewise,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 750 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...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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 682 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...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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 520 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...single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexa- > tions continually repeated. It is remarked by Dennis likewise, that the machinery is superfluous... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 520 страници
...Happiness j)f_life_irjjLj£8r than the ambition of the clergy in many centuriesj It has been well oDserved, that the misery of man proceeds not from any single...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... | |
| Francis Wrangham - 1826 - 672 страници
...objects of Pope's ' Rape of the Lock', and Boileau's ' Lutrin') into the following unjust tirade: — "The freaks and humours and spleen and vanity of women,...than the ambition of the clergy in many centuries." Even Cardan is kinder in his censure, by dividing the burthen, where he says : Oman mini 1'i-iritlii... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 446 страници
...if they had both succeeded, it were easy to tell who would hare deserved most from public gratitude. The freaks, and humours, and spleen, and vanity, of...fill houses with disquiet, do more to obstruct the happinessof life in a year than the ambition of the clergy in many centuries. It has been well observed,... | |
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