 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...have been suggested to Reynolds by Johnson's writings. In The Rambler, No. 87, he had said : — ' There are minds so impatient of inferiority, that...of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.' In No. 166, he says : — ' To be obliged... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...may have been suggested to Reynolds by Johnson's writings. In The Rambler, No. 87, he had said: — 'There are minds so impatient of inferiority, that...of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.' In No. 166, he says : — ' To be obliged... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 290 pages
...needs not hastily to condemn himself, for he can rarely be certain that the softest language, or the most humble diffidence, would have escaped resentment;...of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompence is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain. The number of those whom the love of themselves... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...trifling •employments, and disturbed by little vexations. Idler, vol. 17 p. 285 and 287. GRATITUDE. There are minds so impatient of inferiority, that...of revenge; and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain. Rambler, vol. 2. p. 192. The charge against... | |
 | 1806 - 346 pages
...need* not hastily to condemn himself, for he can rarely be certain that the softest language, or the most humble diffidence, would have escaped resentment,...of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompence is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain. It was the maxim, I think, of Alphonsus... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 424 pages
...himself, for he can rarely be certain that the softest language or most humble diffidence would hare escaped resentment; since scarcely any degree of circumspection...of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompence is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain. The number of those whom the love of themselves... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 308 pages
...may suspect, but needs not hastily to condemn himself, for he can rarely be certain that the softest language or most humble diffidence would have escaped...excel them. Modesty itself, if it is praised, will b« envied ; and there are minds so impatient of inferiority, that their gratitude is a species of... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 308 pages
...certain that the softest language or most humble diffidence would have escaped resentment; since scarcelj any degree of circumspection can prevent or obviate...excel them. Modesty itself, if it is praised, will bs envied ; and there are minds so impatient of inferiority, that their gratitude is a species of revenge,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 350 pages
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 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1832 - 644 pages
...forty. After a much earlier period than that, we * ' There are minds,' says the Rambler himself, ' so impatient of inferiority, that their gratitude is a species of revenge.' No. 87. have heard it remarked by one of the keenest of observers, few Englishmen ever form a real... | |
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Modesty itself, if it is praised, will be envied ; and there are minds so impatient of inferiority, that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain. 
