 ... distress of circumstances: the last of these considerations wrings my very soul to think on. For a man of high spirit conscious of having (at least in one production) generally pleased the world, to be plagued and threatened by wretches that are low...  The Works of Samuel Johnson - Page 279by Samuel Johnson - 1810Full view - About this book
 | William Shenstone - 1769 - 426 pages
...plagued and threatened by wretches that are E 4 low in every fenfe; to be forced to drink himfelf iuto pains of the body in order to get rid of the pains of the mind, is a mifery which I can well conceive, becaufe I may, without vanity, efteem myfelf his equal in point of... | |
 | William Shenstone - 1769 - 376 pages
...threatened by wretches that are low in every fenfe ; to be forced to drink himfelf into pains of the tody in. order to get rid of the pains of the mind ; is a mifery which 1 can well conceive, becaufe I may, without vanity, efteem myfelf his equal in point of... | |
 | William Shenstone - 1773 - 378 pages
...threatened by wretches that are low in every fenfe ; to be forced to drink himfelf into pains of the fcody in order to get rid of the pains of the mind; is a mifery which I can well conceive,- becaufe I may, without vanity, efteem myfelf his equal in point... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 478 pages
..." plagued and threatened by wretches that " are low in every fenfe; to be forced to " drink himfelf into pains of the body, in " order to get rid of the pains of the mind, ** is a mifery.'' — He died July 14, 1743. It is with regret that I find myfelf not better enabled to exhibit... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 474 pages
...plagued and threatened by wretches that " are low in every fenfe; to be forced to *' drink himfelf into pains of the body, in " order to get rid of the pains of the mind, ** is a mifery."' — He died July 14, 1743. It is with regret that I find myfelf not better enabled to exhibit... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Criticism and interpretation - 1781 - 258 pages
...plagued- and threatened by " wretches that are low in every fenfe ;. '* to be forced to drink himfelf into "• pains of the body, in order to get " rid of the pains- of the mind, v- a "" mifery."—He died July 14, 1743. It is with regret that I find myfelf not better enabled t»... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 244 pages
...plagued and threatened by " wretches that are low in every fenle ; " to be forced to drink himfelf into " pains of the body, In order to get " rid of the pains of the mfnd, is a " mifery." — He died July 14, 1743It is with regret that I find myfelf not better enabled... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1783 - 472 pages
...himfelf into pains of the body, in " order to get rid of the pains of the mind, ** is a -mifery." — He died July 19, 1742, and was buried at Wotton, near Henley on Arden. ..His diftrefles need not be much pitied: his eftate is faid to be fifteen hundred a year, which by his death... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 332 pages
...plagued and threatened by " wretches that are low in every fenfe ; to be *' forced to drink himfelf into pains of the " body, in order to get rid of the pains of the " mind, is a mifery." — He died July 19, 1742, and was buried at Wotton, near Henley on Arden. His diftrefles... | |
 | William Shenstone - 1791 - 384 pages
...to be plagued and threatened by wretches that are low in every fenfe i to be forced to drink himfelf into pains of the body in order to get rid of the pains of the mind; is amifery which I can well conceive, becaufe I may, without vanity, efteem myfelf his equal in * You... | |
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