| 1751 - 224 pages
...ncccffity of perifhing might have been expected 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 effec t none feemed lefs to expect deftruction, than thofe to whom it was moft dreadful. They all had... | |
| 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... | |
| 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...offered them 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... | |
| 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 lait. . This neceffity of periihing might have been expected to fadden the gay, and intimidate the 'daring, at...their labours ; yet in effeft none feemed lefs to expeít deftru¿tion than thofe to whom it was moft dreadful ; they all had the art of concealing their... | |
| 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...of their labours; yet in effeft none feemed lefs to expect deftrucYion than thofe to whom 4t was muii dreadful ; they all had the art of concealing their... | |
| Conduct of life - 1792 - 494 pages
...at Lu . This ncccffky of perilhing might have been apeSed tofaddcn the gty, and intimidate the wiag, at leaft to keep the melancholy and timorous in perpetual...varieties and gratifications which nature offered them as <r« (blact of their labours ; yet in effect none foflied iefs to expcft dtftructkm than thofe to •hont... | |
| Joseph Addison - Anecdotes - 1794 - 568 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...offered them as the folace of their labours; yet in effe6l none feemed lefs to expecl. deftruQion than thofe to whom it was moft dreadful ; they all had... | |
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