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 - Σελίδα 154των Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 323 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 σελίδες
...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 dUcord, and fill houses with disquiet, do more to obstruct the happiness of life in a year, than the... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 σελίδες
...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...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... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1811 - 510 σελίδες
...importance, I would have him seriously reflect upon the truth recorded by the Mammoth of literature, that the misery of man proceeds not from any single...evil, but from small vexations continually repeated; and it's corrolary, that his happiness is less owing to any individual advantage, however great, than... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 σελίδες
...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. natural operation, the main event is neither hastened nor retarded. To this charge an efficacious answer... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 390 σελίδες
...Lock," and Boileau's "Lutrin," has a sentiment, which I hope I shall be excused for transcribing. " The freaks, and humours, and spleen, and vanity of...evil, but from small vexations continually repeated." state, and so copious are their examples and authorities, that perhaps few cases can be mentioned in... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1819 - 364 σελίδες
...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...clergy in many centuries. It has been well observed, thai the misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 412 σελίδες
...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...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, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 404 σελίδες
...have deserved most from public gratitude. The freaks, and humours, and spleen, and vanity of •w&nen, as they embroil families in discord, and fill houses...many centuries. It has been well observed, that the mupry of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually... | |
| 1820 - 496 σελίδες
...the Rambler from another ? In comparing the Lutrin with the Rape of the Lock, he says, " the freaka, and humours, and spleen, and vanity of women, as they embroil families in discord, and fill bouses with disquiet ; do more to obstruct the happiness of lite in a year, than the ambition of the... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 308 σελίδες
...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...obstruct the happiness of life in a year than the amhition of the clergy in many centuries. It has been well observed, that the misery of man proceeds... | |
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