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 - 1826 - 396 страници
...if they had both succeeded, it were easy to tell who would have deserved most from public gratitude. : Let his plantations stretch from down to down, First...raise a town. 190 You, too, proceed 1 make falling a tn obstruct the happiness of life in a year than the ambition of the clergy in many centuries. It has... | |
| Francis Wrangham - 1826 - 906 страници
...objects of Pope's 'Rape of the Lock', and Boileau's ' Lutrin') into the following itnjust tirade: — "The freaks and humours and spleen and vanity of women, as they embroil families in discord, and nil houses with disquiet, do more to obstruct the happiness of life in a year than the ambition of... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 страници
...if they had both succeeded, it were easy to tell who would have deserved most from public gratitude. Patroclue ! Death has seal'd his eyes; Unwept, unhonour'd, uninterr'd, nil houses with disquiet, do more to obstruct the happiness of life in a year than the ambition of... | |
| 1833 - 498 страници
...had the misfortune to be devoted to the weaving, since the introduction of those useless auxiliaries. It has been well observed that the misery of man proceeds not from a single crash of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated. Well, then, is... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 страници
...if 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 women, as they embroil families in discord, and nil houses with disquiet, do more to obstruct the happiness of life in a year than the ambition of... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 страници
...they tiad both succeeded, it were easy to tell who would have, deserved most from public gratitude. f& H$C' % % > 2 o' "a$ % % &k!2 3 $ $ $ ! &:';' . & # $ % % % %/ rush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated. It is remarked by Dennis... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 страници
...if they had both succeeded, it were easy to tell who would have deserved most from public gratitude. nduct not often to be found, he was treated for thirty-six...years afterwards ; but he continued with the lady It is remarked by Dennis, likewise, that the machinery is superfluous ; that, by all the bustle of... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 742 страници
...humours, and spleen, and vanity, of women, аз they embroil families in discord, and fill house« with disquiet, do more to obstruct the happiness of...evil, but from small vexations continually repeated. It is remarked by Dennis, likewise, that the machinery is superfluous ; tlmt, by all the bustle of... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 страници
...if 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 women, as they embroil families in discord, and till houses with disquiet, do more to obstruct the happiness of life in a year than the ambition of... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 718 страници
...freaks, and humours, and spleen, and vanity, of women, as they embroil families in discord, and nil red expression or a redundant epithet ; all his verses exemplify his repented. It is remarked by Dennis, likewise, that the machinery is superfluous ; that, by all the... | |
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