 ... dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 317by Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1806Full view - About this book
 | Horace Smith - 1836 - 302 pages
...Johnson — "is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." Even the most obdurate and perverse natures cannot always resist the power of sympathy. Indecorous... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1836 - 300 pages
...Johnson—" is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." Even the most obdurate and perverse natures cannot always resist the power of sympathy. Indecorous... | |
 | 1836 - 514 pages
...That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona.— JOHNSON. Note 10, page 3, col. 2. And watch and weep in Eloísa1« cell. The Paraclete, founded by... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 602 pages
...That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona."* . . n, .. TO THE REV. WILLIAM UNWIN. »inll '.'i'' • • ..-.I i '•""•,l•• ' Olne}', Aug.... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1837 - 312 pages
...Johnson, " is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force on the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." 226. On account of their unlimited range, the accidental or merely arbitrary combinations are extensively... | |
 | Henry O'Reilly - 1838 - 570 pages
...that man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plains of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona," we may with equal confidence assert that morbid must be his sensibility and small must be his capacity... | |
 | Philip Alexander Prince - 1838 - 702 pages
...virtue. The man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona.' PERIOD THE NINTH. From the Urgirá to the Fall of the Ileptarc/iy. 622 то 828 — 206 YEARS. SECTION... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1838 - 332 pages
...virtue ! That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force on the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." True and beautiful, not less than sublime and tender, as these sentiments will be acknowledged by every... | |
 | William Fleming - 1838 - 612 pages
...virtue. The man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force on the plains of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." The passage, it is true, has reference to an actual visit to the places which have been the scenes... | |
 | 1835 - 610 pages
...beings. That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force on the Plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona.' Yet Marathon is only a desert swamp, and lona a wretched heap of dilapidated huts. We must, for our... | |
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