Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" 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... "
The Falls of Clyde: Or, The Fairies; a Scotish Dramatic Pastoral, in Five ... - Page 36
by John Black - 1806 - 241 pages
Full view - About this book

The Falls of Clyde: Or, The Fairies; a Scotish Dramatic Pastoral, in Five ...

John Black - Dialect drama, Scottish - 1806 - 258 pages
...very great number who have attempted • pastoral poptry, it is evident that it contains something very pleasing. The principal desire of the hu-- man...as the father of pastoral poetry ; and there are, indeedi in his works * Every thing, fays an old philofopher, has two handles. The fame S. Johnfon obferves,...
Full view - About this book

The Wanderings of a Goldfinch; Or, Characteristic Sketches in the Nineteenth ...

Mary Anne McMullan - 1816 - 376 pages
...of Miss Benbow's northern journey. His " sidelong looks" were now correspondent. " Love !" a passion which he who never felt was never happy, and he who...which has inspired heroism, and subdued avarice." But Madame de Stael has said, " There is a great mystery in love," and my humble genius not pretending...
Full view - About this book

The Diorama of Life, Or, The Macrocosm and Microcosm Displayed ...

Andrew Wilkie - Anecdotes - 1824 - 348 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...which has inspired heroism, and subdued avarice." — " Do not," said he, " forhear to marry a beautiful woman, if you can find such, out of confidence...
Full view - About this book

Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. during the last twenty years of ...

Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1826 - 250 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...
Full view - About this book

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 4

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 592 pages
...he,-,i^ho never felt never was happy, o Igughs at never deserves to feel — a pa§sioja which hag caused the change of empires, and the loss of worlds...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, '•'...
Full view - About this book

The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of a tour to ..., Volume 4

James Boswell - 1831 - 584 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...
Full view - About this book

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the ...

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1835 - 590 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...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, '...
Full view - About this book

The Life of Samuel Johnson: Including a Journal of His Tour to the ..., Volume 9

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1835 - 366 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...
Full view - About this book

Johnsoniana; or, Supplement to Boswell [ed. by J.W. Croker].

John Wilson Croker - 1836 - 656 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 i [Mr. Boswcll...
Full view - About this book

Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr ...

John Wilson Croker - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1842 - 546 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...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF