 | John Black - Dialect drama, Scottish - 1806 - 258 pages
...itself to the moral sense, by painting chiefly the passion of love ; a passion, says S. Johnson, " which he who never felt was never happy, and he who...passion which has inspired heroism, and subdued avarice *." Theocritus is generally considered as the father of pastoral poetry ; and there are, indeedi in... | |
 | John Black - Dialect drama, Scottish - 1806 - 260 pages
...itself to the moral sense, by painting chiefly the passion of love ; a passion, says S. Johnson, " which he who never felt was never happy, and he who...passion which has inspired heroism, and subdued avarice *." Theocritus is generally considered as the father of pastoral poetry ; and there are, indeed, in... | |
 | Andrew Wilkie - Anecdotes - 1824 - 348 pages
...not ridicule a passion, which he who never felt never was happy, and he who laughs at never deserves to feel — a passion which has caused the change...which has inspired heroism, and subdued avarice." — " Do not," said he, " forhear to marry a beautiful woman, if you can find such, out of confidence... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1826 - 250 pages
...not ridicule a passion which he who never felt never was happy, and he who laughs at never deserves to feel — a passion which has caused the change...passion which has inspired heroism and subdued avarice." He thought he had already said too much. " A passion, in short (added he, with an altered tone), that... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 592 pages
...he,-,i^ho never felt never was happy, o Igughs at never deserves to feel — a pa§sioja which hag caused the change of empires, and the loss of worlds...passion which has inspired heroism and subdued avarice.' He thought he had already said too much. ' A passion, in short,' added he, with an altered tone, '•'... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 584 pages
...a passion which he who never felt never was happy. and he who laughs at never deserves to feel—a passion which has caused the change of empires, and the loss of worlds—a passion which has inspired heroism and subdued avarice.' He thought he had already said... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1835 - 366 pages
...not ridicule a passion which he who never felt never was happy, and he who laughs at never deserves to feel — a passion which has caused the change...passion which has inspired heroism and subdued avarice." He thought he had already said too much. " A passion, in short," added he with an altered tone, " that... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1835 - 590 pages
...not ridicule a passion which he who never felt never was happy, and he who laughs at never deserves to feel — a passion which has caused the change...which has inspired heroism and subdued, avarice.' He thought he had already said too much. 'A passion, in short,' added he-, with an altered tone, '... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1836 - 656 pages
...not ridicule a passion which he who never felt never was happy, and he who laughs at never deserves to feel — a passion which has caused the change...passion which has inspired heroism and subdued avarice." He thought he had already said too much. " A passion, in short," added he with an altered i [Mr. Boswcll... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1842 - 546 pages
...not ridicule a passion which he who never felt never was happy, and he who laughs at never deserves to feel — a passion which has caused the change...passion which has inspired heroism and subdued avarice." He thought he had already said too much. "A passion, in short, ' added he with an altered tone, " that... | |
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It is not (replied our philosopher) because they treat, as you call it, about love, but because they treat of nothing, that they are despicable : we must not ridicule a passion which he who never felt never was happy, and he who laughs at never deserves... 
