 | Stephen Jones - Biography - 1799 - 456 pages
...poems. Soon after this, however, his uncle, Mr. Martin, a lieutenantcolonel, left him about aoool. H-it man is not born for happiness; Collins, who, while...by more dreadful calamities, disease and insanity: he died lunatic, AD elegant monument ha« COL COM been erccïci! to hie memory in after, Mr. Foote,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...pounds ; a sum which Collins could scarcely think exhaustible, and which he did not live to exhaust. The guineas were then repaid, and the translation neglected....born for happiness. Collins, who, while he studied to 1m, felt no evil but poverty, no sooner lived to study than his life was assailed by more dreadful... | |
 | William Collins - English poetry - 1804 - 168 pages
...pounds ; a sum which Collins could scarcely think exhaustible, and which he did not live to exhaust. The guineas were then repaid, and the translation neglected....by more dreadful calamities, disease and insanity. Havin g formerly written his character, while perhaps it was yet more distinctly impressed upon my... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...pounds ; a sum which Collins could scarcely think exhaustible, and which he did not live to exhaust. The guineas were then repaid, and the translation neglected....born for happiness. Collins, who, while he studied fo livij felt no evil but poverty, no sooner lived to study than his life was assailed by more dreadful... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1805 - 238 pages
...neglected, Dr. Johnson, with his usual energy, observes, " that as man is not born for happiness, so Collins, who while he studied to live, felt no evil...sooner lived to study, than his life was assailed by the more dreadful calamities of disease and insani-. ty :" and we cannot more effectually do justice... | |
 | Stephen Jones - Biography - 1805 - 470 pages
...left him about 2000!. But man is r.ot born for happiness ; Collins, who, while he itudied to livr, felt no evil but poverty, no sooner lived to study,...his life was assailed by more dreadful calamities, di.<ease and insanity ; and he died lunatic. An elegant monument has been ereiled to his memory in... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...pounds ; a sum which Collins could scarcely think exhaustible, and which he did not live to exhaust. The guineas were then repaid, and the translation neglected....calamities, disease and insanity. Having formerly written has character, while perhaps it was yet more distinctly impressed upon my memory, I shall insert it... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 554 pages
...pounds ; a sum which Collins could scarcely thiuk exhaustible, and which he did not live to exhaust The guineas were then repaid, and the translation neglected....Collins, who , while he studied to live, felt no evil but pOTerty, no sooner lived to study than his life was assailed by more dreadful calamities, disease and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 pages
...studied to line, felt no eyil .but poverty, *K> sooner lived to study than his life was assailed foy more dreadful calamities, disease, and insanity. Having...character*, while perhaps it was yet more >distinctly irafwessed upo» my memory, I shall insert k here, \ . ' • " Mr. Collins was a man of extensive literature,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 464 pages
...pounds ; a sum which Collins could scarcely think exhaustible, and which he did not live to exhaust. The guineas were then repaid, and the translation neglected. But man is not bom for happiness. Collins, who, while he at,,ui.,! to live, felt no evil but poyerty, no sooner lived... | |
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Martin, a lieutenant-colonel, left him about two thousand pounds ; a sum which Collins could scarcely think exhaustible, and which he did not live to exhaust. The guineas •were then repaid, and the translation neglected. But man is not born for happiness.... 
