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" SUCH is the emptiness of human enjoyment, that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust; and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to every other course-of... "
The works of Samuel Johnson - Page 384
by Samuel Johnson - 1823
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Harrison's British Classicks, Volume 1

1785 - 596 pages
...more pleafmg than thofe in which the mind is conceiting mcafures for a new undertaking. From the firft hint that wakens the fancy, till the hour of actual execution, all is improvement and progrefs, triumph and felicity. Every hour brings additions to the original i'cheme, iiiggclts fome...
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The Rambler

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 416 pages
...pleafing than thofe ir» which the mind is concerting meafures for a new undertaking. From the firft hint that wakens the fancy, till the hour of actual execution, all is improvement and progrefs, triumph and felicity. Every hour brings additions to the original fcheme, fuggefts fome new...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The Rambler

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 422 pages
...pleating than tbofe in which the mind is concerting meafures for a new undertaking. From the firft hint that wakens the fancy, till the hour of actual execution, all is improvement and progrefs, triumph and felicity. Every hour brings additions to the original fcheme, fuggefts fome new...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: The rambler

Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 444 pages
...pleafing than thofe in which the mind is concerting meafures for a new undertaking. From the firft hint that wakens the fancy, till the hour of actual execution, all is improvement and progrefs, triumph and felicity. Every hour brings additions to the original fcheme, fuggefts fome new...
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The Rambler [by S. Johnson and others]., Volume 4

1801 - 320 pages
...pleafrng than thofe in which the mind is concerting meafures for a new undertaking. From the firft hint that wakens, the fancy, till the hour of actual execution, all is improvement and progrefs, triumph and felicity. Every hour brings additions to the original fcheme, fuggefts fome new...
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The British Essayists;: Rambler

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 272 pages
...epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to every other course of life, that its two days of happiness are tlie first and the last. Few moments are more pleasing...is improvement and progress, triumph and felicity. Ever)' hour brings additions to the original scheme, suggests some new expedient to secure success,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 448 pages
...the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to every other course of life, that its two days of happiness are the first...the fancy, till the hour of actual execution, all is im« provement and progress, triumph and felicity. Every hour brings additions to the original scheme,...
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Principles of Elocution: Containing Numerous Rules, Observations, and ...

Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust. — Few moments are more pleasing than those in which...undertaking. From the first hint that wakens the fancy, to the houF of actual execution, all is improvement and progress, triumph and felicity. Every hour...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 422 pages
...the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to every other course of life, that its two days of happiness are the first...measures for a new undertaking. From the first hint that awakens the fancy, till the hour of actual execution, all is improvement and progress, triumph and...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 414 pages
...the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to every other course of life, that its two days of happiness are the first...Few moments are more pleasing than those in which I the mind is concerting measures for a new undertak- 1 ing. From the first hint that wakens the fancy...
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