 ... 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 monthly review - Page 433by SEVERAL HANDS - 1759Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - Books - 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 - Ethiopia - 1759 - 184 pages
...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 - Language and languages - 1772 - 490 pages
...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
...to dklurb that fociety which debars them from its privileges.' To live without feeling or exciting fympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity...it is not" retreat,, but exclufion from mankind.; Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleafures." "What then is to be done? faid Ra£felas;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 560 pages
...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...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
...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 - English literature - 1787 - 546 pages
...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 - Ethiopia - 1790 - 318 pages
...difturb that fociety which debars them from its privileges, To live with" out out feeling or exciting 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." " What then is to be done?" faid RafTelas... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 586 pages
...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, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 601 pages
...celibacy."- — " To live, (adds 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 I pity, is a state more gloomy than solitude : it is not j retreat, but exclusion,... | |
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