 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 Seiten
...if they had both succeeded it were easy to tell who would have deserved most from public gratitude. The freaks, and humours, and spleen, and vanity of...than the ambition of the clergy in many centuries. It has been well observed, that the misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1856 - 442 Seiten
...has a sentiment, which I hope I shall be excused for transcribing. ' The freaks, and humours, !>.nd spleen, and vanity of women, as they embroil families...than the ambition of the clergy in many centuries. It has been well observed, that the misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1855 - 442 Seiten
...Lock,' and Boileau's ' Lutrin,' has a sentiment, which I hope I shall be excused for transcribing. 'The freaks, and humours, and spleen, and vanity of...women, as they embroil families in discord, and fill nouses with disquiet, do more to obstruct the happiness of life in a year, than the ambition of the... | |
 | 1863 - 414 Seiten
...as they embroil families in difcord, and fill houfes with difquiet, do more to obftrud the happinefs of life in a year than the ambition of the clergy in many centuries." Even Cardan is kinder in his cenfure, by dividing the burthen, where he fays : Omnes enim prwatx injuria... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1866 - 654 Seiten
...succeeded, it were easy to tell who would have deserved most from public gratitude.xThe freaks, aud humours, and spleen, and vanity of women, as they...in a year than the ambition of the clergy in many cenumes^It' has been well observed that the misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 Seiten
...inferior to the Lutrin, scarcely required to be refuted with mock gravity by Dr Johnson, who declares that ' the freaks, and humours, and spleen, and vanity...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 - 1871 - 544 Seiten
...if they had both succeeded, it were easy to tell who would have deserved most from public gratitude. The freaks, and humours, and spleen, and vanity of women, as they embroil families in discord, and 611 houses with ilis1juiut, do more to obstruct the happiness of life in a yanr than the ambition of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1873 - 590 Seiten
...inferior to the Lutrin, scarcely required to be refuted with mock gravity by Dr Johnson, who declares that ' the freaks, and humours, and spleen, and vanity...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 Seiten
...if they had both succeeded, it were easy to tell who would have deserved most from public gratitude. The freaks, and humours, and spleen, and vanity of...than the ambition of the clergy in many centuries. It has been well observed, that the misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming... | |
 | George F. Underhill - 1887 - 232 Seiten
...and how the damsel revenged herself for the outrage. It was this poem that made Dr. Johnson declare that " the freaks, and humours, and spleen, and vanity...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... | |
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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. 
