 ... with rancour, and their tongues with- censure. They are peevish at home, and malevolent abroad ; and, as the outlaws of human nature, make it their business and their pleasure to disturb that society which debars them from its privileges. To live...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. - Page 290by Samuel Johnson - 1806Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - Books - 1759 - 636 pages
...that fociety which de" bars them from its privileges. To live without feeling or ex" citing fyrnpathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tafting the balm of pity, is a (rate more gloomy than folitude: it is not retreat but exclufion from... | |
 | SEVERAL HANDS - 1759 - 636 pages
...that fociety which dt" bars them from its privileges,, To live without feeling or ex" citing fympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tafting the balm of pity, is a ftate more gloomy than folitude: it is not retreat but exclufion from... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 560 pages
...difturb that fociety which debars them from its privileges. To live without feeling or exciting fympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tafting the balm of pity, is a ftate more gloomy than foliJitude ; tude : it is not retreat, but exclusion... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1790 - 318 pages
...fociety which debars them from its privileges, To live with" out out feeling or exciting fympathy, to be .fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tafting the balm of pity, is a ftate more gloomy than folitude : it is not retreat, but exclufion from... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 622 pages
...marriages are preferable to cheerless celibacy." — " To live, (add* the same writer, in another place,) without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate...Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures." mcy with her, confining their intercourse to mere Tkits of ceremony ; ' nor does she appear to hare... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 608 pages
...marriages arc preferable to cheerless celibacy." — " To live, (adds the same writer, in another place,) without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate...Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures," ire; I snare. J with her, confining their intercourse to mere visits of ceremony ; ' nor does she appear... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 606 pages
...cheerless celibacy."—" To live, (adds the «ame writer, in another place,) without feeling or extiting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity...Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures." macy with her, confining their intercourse to mere visits of ceremony ; ' nor does she appear to have... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 601 pages
...marriages are preferable to cheerless celibacy."- — " To live, (adds the same writer, in another place,) without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate...of others, or afflicted without tasting the balm of I pity, is a state more gloomy than solitude : it is not j retreat, but exclusion, from mankind. Marriage... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 614 pages
...cheerless celibacy."—" To live, (add* the same writer, in another place,) without feeling or ex' citing sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity...or afflicted without tasting the balm of pity, is a stale more gloomy than solitude: it is not retreat, but exclusion, from mankind. Marriage has many... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 458 pages
...difturb that fociety which debars them from its privileges. To live without feeling or exciting fympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tafting the balm of pity, is a Ilate more gloomy than folitude : it is not retreat, but exclufion from... | |
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