 ... yet the toil with which performance struggles after idea, is so irksome and disgusting, and so frequent is the necessity of resting below that perfection which we imagined within our reach, that seldom any man obtains more from his endeavours than...  The Rambler, by S. Johnson - Page 3401822Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1752 - 316 pages
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 | 1752 - 196 pages
...refufcitation of .dcfires which he feels hiinfelf unable to gratify. So certainly is wearinefs and vexation the concomitant of our undertakings, that every man, in whatever he is engaged, confoles himfelf with the hope of change. He that has made his way, by affiduity and vigilance, to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1763 - 262 pages
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 | Samuel Johnson - 1767 - 284 pages
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 | 1785 - 596 pages
...continual refufcitation of defires which he feels himfclf unable to gratify. So certainly is wearinefs the concomitant of our undertakings, that every man, in whatever he is engaged, confolcs himielf with the hope of change; if be has made his way by ailiduity to publick employment,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 416 pages
...frequent is the neceffity of refting below that perfection which we imagined within our reach, that feldom any man obtains more from his endeavours than a painful conviction of his defects, and a continual refufcitation of defires which he feels himfelf unable to gratify. So certainly is wearinefs the concomitant... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 422 pages
...is the neceffity of refting below that perfection which we imagined •within our reach, that feldom any man obtains more from his endeavours than a painful conviction of his defecls, and a continual refufcitation of defires which he feels himfcU unable to gratify. So certainly... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 444 pages
...frequent is the neceffity of refting below that perfection which we imagined within our reach, that leldom any man obtains more from his endeavours than a painful conviction of his defects, and a continual refufcitation of defires which he feels himfelf unable to gratify. So certainly is wearinefs the concomitant... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1797 - 516 pages
...frequent is the neceflity of refting below that perfection which we imagined within our reach, that feldom any man obtains more from his endeavours than a painful conviction of his defecb, and a. continual refufcitation of dcfires which he feels himfelf unable to gratify. So certainly... | |
 | 1797 - 522 pages
...refufciiation of defires which he feels himfelf unable to gratify. So certainly is wearinefs and vexation the concomitant of our undertakings, that every man, in whatever he is engaged, confutes himfelf with the hope of change. He that has made his way by affiduity aad vigilance to public... | |
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