 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 608 pages
...marriages arc preferable to cheerless celibacy." — " To live, (adds the same writer, in another place,) without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate...Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures," ire; I snare. J with her, confining their intercourse to mere visits of ceremony ; ' nor does she appear... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 606 pages
...cheerless celibacy."—" To live, (adds the «ame writer, in another place,) without feeling or extiting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity...Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures." macy with her, confining their intercourse to mere visits of ceremony ; ' nor does she appear to have... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 601 pages
...marriages are preferable to cheerless celibacy."- — " To live, (adds the same writer, in another place,) without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate...of others, or afflicted without tasting the balm of I pity, is a state more gloomy than solitude : it is not j retreat, but exclusion, from mankind. Marriage... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 614 pages
...cheerless celibacy."—" To live, (add* the same writer, in another place,) without feeling or ex' citing sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity...or afflicted without tasting the balm of pity, is a stale more gloomy than solitude: it is not retreat, but exclusion, from mankind. Marriage has many... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 458 pages
...difturb that fociety which debars them from its privileges. To live without feeling or exciting fympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tafting the balm of pity, is a Ilate more gloomy than folitude : it is not retreat, but exclufion from... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 462 pages
...and, as the outlaws of human nature, make it their bufinefs and their pleafure to difturb that fociety which debars them from its privileges. To live without feeling or exciting fympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without lafting the... | |
 | William Mudford - 1802 - 166 pages
...censure. They are peevish at home, and malevolent abroad ; and, as the outlaws of human nature, make it their business and their pleasure to disturb that society which debars them from its privileges." This description, I believe, to be just, for a deviation from the express law of Heaven, and from the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 pages
...censure. They are peevish at home, and malevolent abroad; and, as the outlaws of human nature, make it their business and their pleasure to disturb that...Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures,'' ,. - ; . | - : . /• ;-» ( -t.-» "What then is to be done?" said R.asselas; "the more we inquire,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...censure. They are peevish at home, and malevolent abroad ; and, as the outlaws of human nature, make it their business and their pleasure to disturb that"...society which debars them from its privileges. To h've without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Historical fiction - 1809 - 210 pages
...censure. They are peevish at home, and malevolent abroad; and, as the outlaws of human nature, make it their business and their pleasure to disturb that...but exclusion from mankind. Marriage has many pains, bnt celibacy has no pleasures." " What then is to be done?" said Rasselas; " the more we inquire, the... | |
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... vicious delights. They act as beings under the constant sense of some known inferiority, that fills their minds with rancour, and their tongues with censure. They are peevish at home, and malevolent abroad; and, as the outlaws of human nature, make... 
