 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1774 - 392 pages
...was moft eminently confpicuous the Subtlety of Habit, who who hung imperceptible Shackles upon them, was every Moment leading them farther from the Road,...advanced, the Flowers grew paler, and the Scents fainter j they proceeded in their dreary March without Pleafure in their Progrefs, yet without Power to return... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 546 pages
...farther from the road, which they always imagined that they had the power of reaching. They wandered on from one double of the labyrinth to another with...as they advanced, the flowers grew paler, and the fcents fainter ; they proceeded in their dreary march without pleafure in their progrefs, yet without... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 534 pages
...farther from the road, which they always imagined that they had the power of reaching. They wandered on from one double of the labyrinth to another with...as they advanced, the flowers grew paler, and the fcents fainter j they proceeded in their dreary march without pleafure in their progrefs, yet without... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 560 pages
...farther from the road, which they always imagined that they had the power of reaching. They wandered on from one double of the labyrinth to another with...as they advanced, the flowers grew paler, and the fcents fainter } they proceeded in their dreary march without pleafure in their progrefs, yet without... | |
 | English literature - 1787 - 470 pages
...farther from the road, which they always imagined that they had the power of reashing. They wandered on from one double of the labyrinth to another with the chains of Habit hanging fecretly upon them, til], as they advanced, the flowers grew paler, and the fcents fainter; they proceeded in their dreary... | |
 | John Adams - English fiction - 1791 - 500 pages
...tomorrow. In thefe was moft eminently confpicuous the fubtlety of Habit, who hung imperceptible fhackles upon them, and was every moment leading them farther...as they advanced, the flowers grew paler, and the fcents fainter ; they proceeded in their dreary march without pleafure in their progrefs, yet without... | |
 | George Horne (bp. of Norwich.) - 1794 - 426 pages
...road, which they always " imagined they had the power of reach" ing. They wandered on from one dou" ble of the labyrinth to another, with the " chains of...as they advanced, the flowers " grew paler, and the fcents fainter. They " proceeded in their dreary march with" out pleafure in their progrefs, yet with"... | |
 | George Horne - 1794 - 416 pages
...wandered on from one dou" ble of the labyrinth to another, with the " chains of' habit hanging feeredy upon " them, till, as they advanced, the flowers " grew paler, and the fcents fainter. They " proceeded in their dreary march with" out pleafure in their progrefs, yet with"... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 454 pages
...farther from the road, which they always imagined that they had the power of reaching. They wandered on from one double of the labyrinth to another with...as they advanced, the flowers grew paler, and the fcents fainter; they proceeded in their dreary march without pleafure in their progrefs, yet without... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 400 pages
...farther from the road, which they always imagined that they hud the power of reaching. They wandered on from one double of the labyrinth to another with the chains of Habit hanging secretly upon them, till, as they advanced, the flowers grew paler, and the scents fainter ; they proceeded... | |
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... yet without power to return, and had this aggravation above all others that they were criminal but not delighted. The drunkard for... 
