OUCH 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... The Essays of Samuel Johnson - الصفحة 192بواسطة Samuel Johnson - 1888 - عدد الصفحات: 346عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| 1803 - عدد الصفحات: 268
...Lest, in the race derided, left behind, He drags his jaded limbs and burst his wind. FRANCIS. SUCH is the emptiness of human enjoyment, that we are always...malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage maybe applied to every other course of life, that its two daj.s of happiness are the first and the... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - عدد الصفحات: 272
...aged horse, Lest, in the race derided, left behind, He drags his jaded limbs and burst his wind. SUCH is the emptiness of human enjoyment, that we are always...course of life, that its two days of happiness are tlie first and the last. Few moments are more pleasing than those in which the mind is concerting measures... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - عدد الصفحات: 320
...aged horse. Lest, in the race derided, left behind, He drags his jaded limbs and burst his wind. SUCH is the emptiness of human enjoyment, that we are always...possession by disgust ; and the malicious remark of the Grtck epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to every other course of life, that its two days of... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - عدد الصفحات: 412
...He drag his jaded-limbs and burst his wind. s. > UCH is the emptiness of human enjoyment, that vre are always impatient of the present. Attainment is...and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist •n marriage may be applied to every other course of life, that its two days of happiness are the... | |
| Thomas Ewing - 1819 - عدد الصفحات: 448
...Discontent, the common lot of all Mankind. SUCH is the emptiness of human enjoyment, that -w» ere always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust. — Few moments are more pleasing than those in which the mind is concerting measures for a new undertaking.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 414
...is the emptiness of human enjoyment, that j we are always impatient of the present. Attain- j ment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust;...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... | |
| 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 370
...Lest, in the race derided, left behind, He drags his jaded limbs and burst his wind. FRANCIS. SUCH is the emptiness of human enjoyment, that we are always...applied to every other course of life, that its two days happiness are the first and the last. Few moments are more pleasing than those in which the mind is... | |
| James Ferguson - 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 378
...Lest, in the race derided, left behind, He drags his jaded limbs and burst his wind. FRANCIS. SUCH is the emptiness of human enjoyment, that we are always...applied to every other course of life, that its two days happiness are the first and the last. Few moments are more pleasing than those in which the mind is... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 416
...horse, Lest, in the race derided, left behind, He drag his jaded limbs and burst his wind. FRANCIS. SUCH is the emptiness of human enjoyment, that we are always...epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to every other course-of life, that its two days of happiness are the first and the last. Few moments are more pleasing... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 482
...his jaded limbs, and burst his wind. FRANCIS. SUCH is the emptiness of human enjoyment, that we arej always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed...is concerting measures for a new undertaking. From , i the first hint that wakens the fancy, till the hour of actual execution, all is improvement and... | |
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