 The freaks, and humours, and spleen, and vanity, of women, as they embroil families in discord, and fill houses with disquiet, do more to obstruct the happiness of life in a year, than the ambition of the clergy in many centuries.  Johnson's Lives of the Poets - Page 182by Samuel Johnson - 1890Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1881 - 570 pages
...embroil families in discord, and fill houses with disquiet, do more to obstruct the happiness of life in a year than the ambition of the clergy in many centuries,. _J[i_has been well observed, that the misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming... | |
 | George F. Underhill - 1887 - 232 pages
...embroil families in discord, and fill houses with disquiet, do more to obstruct the happiness of life in a year than the ambition of the clergy in many centuries." Certainly in the reign of Anne the vanity of the ladies led them to use more artificial means of adornment... | |
 | 1887 - 610 pages
...embroil families in discord and fill houses with disquiet, do more to obstruct the happiness of life in a year than the ambition of the clergy in many centuries." " Would to the gods every tree bore such fruit ! " exclaimed Diogenes, when he saw a woman hanging... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 502 pages
...embroil families in discord, and fill houses with disquiet do more to obstruct the happiness of life in a year than the ambition of the clergy in many...evil, but from small vexations continually repeated. Works, vi;;. 333. MISERY is caused, for the most part, not by a heavy crush of disaster, but by the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1871 - 542 pages
...embroil families in discord, and fill houses with disquiet, do more to obstruct the happiness of life in a year than the ambition of the clergy in many...been well observed, that the misery of man proceeds uot from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexatious continually repeated. It is... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - 1893 - 694 pages
...treasures, Geliert. The miserable have no other medicine, , But only hope. Mr(u.fcr J/inu.» üi. i. m die grimme Pein?— The youth longs so to love, the maiden so to be loved ; ah ! why do vexatious continually repeated. JchnThe misfortune in the state is that nobody САП enjoy life in... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1893 - 566 pages
...embroil families in discord, and fill houses with disquiet, do more to obstruct the happiness of life in a year than the ambition of the clergy in many centuries." Strange to say, the opposite objection has recently been made to a work of which the execution has... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1893 - 588 pages
...embroil families in discord, and fill houses with disquiet, do more to obstruct the happiness of life in a year than the ambition of the clergy in many centuries.' Strange to say, the opposite objection has recently been made to a work of which the execution has... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 pages
...gravity proceeding from dulness and mere incapability of enjoyment, which is most base. — liuskin. It has been well observed that the misery of man proceeds...evil, but from small vexations continually repeated. — Johnson. The calm or agitation of our temper does not depend so much on the important events of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hepburn Millar - 1896 - 316 pages
...embroil families in discord, and fill houses with disquiet, do more to obstruct the happiness of life in a year than the ambition of the clergy in many...remarked by Dennis likewise, that the machinery is I superfluous; that, by all the bustle of preternatural operation, the main event is neither hastened... | |
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