 ... are happy, and need not envy me that walk thus among you, burdened with myself; nor do I, ye gentle beings, envy your felicity ; for it is not the felicity of man. I have many distresses from which ye are free; I fear pain when I do not feel it; I...  The Vicar of Wakefield - Page 22by Oliver Goldsmith - 1857 - 188 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 560 pages
...peculiar fufferings with peculiar enjoyments." With obfervations like tliefc the prince amufcd himfelf as he returned, uttering them with a plaintive voice, yet with a look that difcovered him to feel fome complacence in his own perfpicacity, and to receive fome folace of the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 534 pages
...peculiar fufferings with peculiar enjoyments." With obfervations like thefe the prince amufed himfelf as he returned, uttering them with a plaintive voice, yet with a look that difcovered him to feel fome complacence in his own perfpicacity, and to receive fome folace of the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 546 pages
...peculiar fufFerings with peculiar enjoyments." With obfervations like thefe the prince amufed himfelf as he returned, uttering them with a plaintive voice, yet with a look that difcovered him to feel fome complacence in his own perfpicacity, and to receive fome folace of the... | |
 | English fiction - 1788 - 778 pages
...peculiar fufferings with peculiar enjoyments.' With obfervations like thefe the priii re amufed himfelf as he returned, uttering them with a plaintive voice, yet with a look that difcovered him to feel fome complacence in his own perfpicacity, and to receive fome folace of the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1790 - 318 pages
...peculiar fufferings with peculiar enjoyments." With obfervations like thefe the prince .amufed himfelf as he returned, uttering them with a plaintive voice, yet with a look that difcovered him to feel fome complacence in his own perfpicacity, and to receive fome folace of the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 586 pages
...peculiar fufferings with peculiar enjoyments." With obfervatiorrs like thefe the prince amufed himfeif as he returned, uttering them with a plaintive voice, yet with a look that dilcovered hjm to feel fome complacence in his own perlpicacity, and to receive fome fokce of the miferies... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 462 pages
...peculiar fufferings with peculiar enjoyments.'' With obfervations like thefe the prince amufed himfelf as he returned, uttering them with a plaintive voice, yet with a look that difcovered him to feel fome complacence in his own perfpicacity, and to receive fome folace of the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 pages
...from which ye are free; I fear pain when I do not feel it: I sometimes shrink at evils recollected, and sometimes start at evils anticipated ; surely the equity of providence has balanrcedpeculiarsufferingswithpeculiarenjoyments." With observations like these the Prince amused... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...from which ye are free ; I fear pain when I do not feel it ; I sometimes shrink at evils recollected, and sometimes start at evils anticipated : surely...voice, yet with a look that discovered him to feel some complacence in his own perspicacity, and to receive some solace of the miseries of life, from consciousness... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Historical fiction - 1809 - 210 pages
...from which ye are free ; I fear pain when I do not feel it: I sometimes shrink at evils recollected, and sometimes start at evils anticipated: surely the...voice, yet with a look that discovered him to feel some complacence in his own perspicacity, and to receive some solace of the miseries of life, from consciousness... | |
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