 ... which debars them from its privileges. To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the balm of pity, is a state more gloomy than solitude : it is not retreat,...  The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale - Page 158by Samuel Johnson - 1790 - 304 pagesFull view - About this book
 | SEVERAL HANDS - 1759 - 636 pages
...difturb that fociety which dt" bars them from its privileges,, To live without feeling or ex" citing fympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity...folitude: it is not retreat but exclufion from mankind. Marriage'has many pains, but celibacy has no pleafures.' This extravagant declamation may entertain... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1759 - 636 pages
...that fociety which de" bars them from its privileges. To live without feeling or ex" citing fyrnpathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of...or afflicted without tafting the balm of pity, is a (rate more gloomy than folitude: it is not retreat but exclufion from mankind. Marriage has many pains,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1759 - 184 pages
...bufinefs and their pleafure to difturb that fociety which debars them from its privileges. To live without feeling or exciting fympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or affli&ed without tafling the balm of pity, is a ftate more gloomy than folitude : it is not retreat... | |
 | Giuseppe Baretti - 1772 - 490 pages
...and their pleasure to difturb that fociety which debars them from its privileges. To live •without feeling or exciting fympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or to be affiifted without tailing the balm of pity, is a ftate more gloomy than foütude: it is Dot retreat,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 324 pages
...bufinefs and their pleafure to dklurb that fociety which debars them from its privileges.' To live without feeling or exciting fympathy, to be fortunate without...has no pleafures." "What then is to be done? faid Ra£felas; the more we inquire, thelefs we can refolve. Sorely he is moft likely to pleafe himfelf... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 560 pages
...bufinefs and their pleafure to difturb that fociety which debars them from its privileges. To live without feeling or exciting fympathy, to be fortunate without...tafting the balm of pity, is a ftate more gloomy than foliJitude ; tude : it is not retreat, but exclusion from mankind. Marriage has many pains, but celibacy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 534 pages
...and their pleafure to jdifturb that fociety which debars them from its privileges. To live without feeling or exciting fympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflidted without lading the of pity, is a ftate more gloomy than folitude : it is not retreat, but... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 pages
...bufinefs and their pleafure to diilurb that fociety which debars them from its privileges. To live without feeling or exciting fympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflidted without tafting the balm of pity, is a ftate more gloomy than foliJitude ; tude : it is not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 586 pages
...bufmefs and their pleafure to difturb that fociety which debars them from its privileges. To live without feeling or exciting fympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicTred without tafting the balm of pity, is a flare more gloomy than foiitude : it is not retreat,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 622 pages
...celibacy." — " To live, (add* the same writer, in another place,) without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the balm of pity, is a state more gloomy than solitude : it is not retreat, but exclusion,... | |
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