 This necessity of perishing might have been expected to sadden the gay, and intimidate the daring, at least to keep the melancholy and timorous in perpetual torments, and hinder them from any enjoyment of the varieties and gratifications which nature...  The Rambler [by S. Johnson and others]. - Page 1881751Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1763 - 292 pages
...vigilance, be preferved, he muft fink at laft. THIS neceffity of perifbing might have been expected to fadden the gay, and intimidate the daring, at leaft....offered them as the folace of their labours ; yet in -effedr, none feemed lefs to expert deftru&ion than thofe to whom it was moft dreadful ; they all had... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1772 - 288 pages
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 | English literature - 1773 - 394 pages
...vigilance, be preferved, he muft fink at laft. This neceffity of perifhing might have been expefted to fadden the gay, and intimidate the daring, at leaft...torments, and hinder them from any enjoyment of the .vaneties and gratifications which nature offered them as the folace of their labours ; yet in effeft... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English essays - 1784 - 372 pages
...vigilance, be preferved, he muft fink at laft. This neceffity of perifhing might have been expected to fadden the gay, and intimidate the daring, at leaft...as the folace of their labours ; yet in effect none feetned lefs to expert deftruction than thofe to whom it was moft dreadful ; they all had the art of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 460 pages
...neceflity of perifhing might have been expe&ed to fadden the gay, and intimidate the daring, at leaf t to keep the melancholy and timorous in perpetual torments,...offered them as the folace of their labours; yet in efifect none feemcd lefs to expect deftru&ion than thofe to whom it was moft dreadful; they all had... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 472 pages
...necefTity pf perilhing might have been expecled to fadden the gay, and intimidate the daring, at lead to keep the melancholy and timorous in perpetual torments, and hinder them from any enjoynvnt of the varieties and gratifications which nature offered them as the folacc of their labours;... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1790 - 1058 pages
...vigilance, be preferved, he mud fink at hit. . This neceflity of perifliing might have been expected to fadden the gay, and intimidate the 'daring, at...as the folace of their labours ; yet in effect none feemed lefs to expeft deírru¿tion than thofe to whom it was moil dreadful ; they all had ihe art... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1792 - 494 pages
...«cpeeled to fadtkn the gay, and intimidate the dying, at Icaft to keep the melancholy and timorous ш perpetual torments, and hinder them from any enjoyment...offered them as the folace of their labours ; yet in efleét none feemcd lefs to cxpcit definition than thofc to whom it was mou dreadful ; they all had... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 582 pages
...iadden the gay, and intimidate the daring, at lead to keep the melancholy and timorous in perpe-> tual torments, and hinder them from any enjoyment of the...offered them as the folace of their labours; yet in effeft none feemed lefs to expect deftrucYion than thofe to whom 4t was muii dreadful ; they all had... | |
 | Mr. Addison - Anecdotes - 1794 - 326 pages
...vigilance, be preferved, he muft fink at Lift. This neceffity of perifhing might have been expected to fadden the gay, and intimidate the daring, at leaft...as the folace of their labours; yet in effect none feemed lefs to expect deftruction than thofe to whom it was moft dreadful ; they all had the art of... | |
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