 Her grandsire leaves her in Britannia's arms ; Secure with peace, with competence to dwell, While tutelary nations guard her cell. Yours is the charge, ye fair, ye wise, ye brave ! 'Tis yours to crown desert beyond the grave.  The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia - Page 207by Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - 1811 - 234 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1869 - 1502 pages
...ever be a sufficient passport to his ion. PROLOGUE. WRITTEN BY DR. JOHNSON ; SPOKEN BY MR. BENSLEY. e may find comfort in the money, whatever onedoesinthe...Leon. But, sir, though, in obedience to your desire, I lab'ring train, And social sorrow loses half its pain : Our anxious bard, without complaint, may share... | |
 | 1874 - 844 pages
...which he meant to be light reading. He begins the prologue to a comedy with the words : Pressed with the load of life, the weary mind Surveys the general toil of human kind. In the Life of Savage he makes the common remark that the lives of many of the greatest teachers of... | |
 | Alexander Main - Literary Criticism - 1874 - 482 pages
...Johnson's state of mind when composing the Prologue is found in two such lines as these : : Press'd with the load of life, the weary mind Surveys the general toil of human kind." Strange lines to get into the midst of the Prologue to a Comedy ; but it has been ever so — sorrow... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 602 pages
...Who could suppose that it was to introduce a comedy, when Mr. Bensley solemnly began, " Press'd with the load of life, the weary mind Surveys the general toil of human kind." but this dark ground might make Goldsmith's humour shine the more. In the spring of this year, having... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 810 pages
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 | Edward Dutton Cook - Drama - 1876 - 346 pages
...certainly open to the charge brought against it of undue solemnity. The first lines — Press'd with the load of life the weary mind Surveys the general toil of human kind — when enunciated in the sepulchral tones of Bensley, the tragedian, were judged to have a depressing... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1877 - 526 pages
...Landlady - MRS. WHITE. SCENE— London. PROLOGUE, WRITTEN BY DR. JOHNSON : SPOKEN BY MR. BENSLEY. JRESSED by the load of life, the weary mind Surveys the general...toil of human kind ; With cool submission joins the lab'ring train, And social sorrow loses half its pain : Our anxious bard, without complaint,, may share,... | |
 | Authors, English - 1880 - 556 pages
...could suppose it was to introduce a comedy, when Mr. Bensley solemnly began — " • Pressed with the load of life, the weary mind Surveys the general toil of humankind ? ' But this dark ground might make Goldsmith's humour shine the more." When we come to the... | |
 | 1883 - 528 pages
...Who could suppose it was to introduce a comedy, when Mr. Bensley solemnly began — " ' Pressed with the load of life, the weary mind Surveys the general toil of humankind ' ? But this dark ground might make Goldsmith's humor shine the more." When we come to the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1884 - 104 pages
...be a sufficient passport to his protection. PEOLOGUE. WRITTEN BY DR. JOHNSON; SPOKEN BY MR. BENSLEY. Press'd by the load of life, the weary mind Surveys...toil of human kind; With cool submission joins the lab'ring train, And social sorrow loses half its pain: (4) Our anxious bard, without complaint, may... | |
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