 | Hester Lynch Piozzi, Richard Cumberland - Authors, English - 1884 - 490 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 - 1884 - 534 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 Hay - Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 - 1884 - 400 pages
...that are above you, but with the multitudes which are below you. — Life. Letter to Boswell, 1784. A passion which has caused the change of empires,...passion which has inspired heroism and subdued avarice. — Piozzi's Anecdotes, p. 210. We must not ridicule a passion which he who never felt never was happy,... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1884 - 538 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... | |
 | Thomas Hitchcock - Biography - 1891 - 274 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." NEW YORK, May, 1891. CONTENTS. PAGE GIBBON AND MADAME NECKER i Gibbon at Lausanne, 2. — His own story... | |
 | William Henry Craig - Authors, English - 1895 - 300 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 * ' Piozzi Anecdotes.' he had already said too much, ' A passion, in short,' added he with... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 550 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 V He thought he had already said too much. ' A passion, in short (added he, with an altered tone),... | |
 | Francis Burdett Money-Coutts - Bible - 1903 - 330 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.' " l 1 Boswell's Life of Johnson, vol. v, p. 8. As to Religion's pretence of sanctifying Love by Holy... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1910 - 196 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.' Perhaps Boswell shows Johnson in too uniformly solemn a light. The seriousness of his own attitude,... | |
 | Hugh Stokes - Great Britain - 1917 - 506 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...the loss of worlds — a passion which has inspired s- issc z 3e '^** -f- -~ •• » I* i. T^— we±L ^^rt s :fHt I iear ha : 3B 3att irsiiy said «U!L... | |
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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... 
