 | James Boswell - Readers - 1916 - 370 pages
...that not one of that great multitude would be alive a hundred years afterwards, so it went to my heart to consider that there was not one in all that brilliant...reflection was experimentally just. The feeling of languor, which succeeds the animation of gaiety, is itself a very severe pain ; and when the mind is... | |
 | charles grosvenor osgood - 1917 - 606 pages
...that not one of that great multitude would be alive a hundred years afterwards, so it went to my heart to consider that there was not one in all that brilliant...individual there, would be distressing when alone.' I suggested, that being in love, and flattered with hopes of success; or having some favourite scheme... | |
 | James Boswell - 1917 - 606 pages
...that not one of that great multitude would be alive a hundred years afterwards, so it went to my heart to consider that there was not one in all that brilliant...afraid to go home and think; but that the thoughts of •ch individual there, would be distressing when alone.' 1777l DISLIKE OF SLAVERY 353 I suggested,... | |
 | Chauncey Brewster Tinker - Literary Criticism - 1922 - 320 pages
...that not one of that great multitude would be alive a hundred years afterwards, so it went to my heart to consider that there was not one in all that brilliant...and think ; but that the thoughts of each individual would be distressing when alone." This reflection was experimentally just. The feeling of languor,... | |
 | Oswald Doughty - English poetry - 1922 - 492 pages
...was less a desire for mutual pleasure in society than a fear of being alone. " It went to my heart to consider that there was not one in all that brilliant...circle, that was not afraid to go home and think," said Johnson of his first visit to Ranelagh.1 From his rural retreat at the Leasowes, the melancholy... | |
 | Joseph Wells - Greece - 1923 - 248 pages
...over his army ; but Johnson's sadness was prompted by the thought not that all the men must die, but that ' there was not one in all that brilliant circle that was not afraid to go home and think.' Xerxes' tears, however, are one of the commonplaces of Literature, and a reference to them proves little... | |
 | James Boswell - Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 - 1925 - 102 pages
...that not one of that great multitude would be alive a hundred years afterwards, so it went to my heart to consider that there was not one in all that brilliant...reflection was experimentally just. The feeling of languor, which succeeds the animation of gaiety, is itself a very severe pain; and when the mind is... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - Literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...that there was not 1 One of the "splendid places of public amusement" of eighteenth century England. one in all that brilliant circle, that was not afraid to go home 1777 and think; but that the thoughts of each individual there, would be distressing when alone." l... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - Literature - 1926 - 924 pages
...that there was not 1 One of the "splendid places of public amusement" of eighteenth century England. one in all that brilliant circle, that was not afraid to go home 1777 and think; but that the thoughts of each individual there, would be distressing when alone." 1... | |
 | Lore Holzhausen Liebenam (Frau) - English literature - 1928 - 152 pages
....... But . . . it went to my heart to consider that there was not one in all that brilliant circles, that was not (afraid to go home and think, but that the thoughts of each .individual there would be distressed, when alone." Die trüben Reflexionen, zu denen Ranelaghs V Horace Walpole, The Leiters... | |
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I never experienced any where else. But, as Xerxes wept when he viewed his immense army, and considered that not one of that great multitude would be alive a hundred years afterwards, so it went to my heart to consider that there was not one in all that... 
