 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 430 pages
...my very soul to think on. For a man of high spirit, conscious of having (at least in one production) generally pleased the world, to be plagued and threatened...to get rid of the pains of the mind, is a misery." — He died July 19, 1742, and was buried at Wotton, near Henley on Arden. His distresses need not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 416 pages
...very soul to think on. For a " man of high spirit, conscious of having (at least in " one production) generally pleased the world, to be " plagued and threatened...get rid of the pains " of the mind, is a misery." He died July 19, 1742, and was buried at Wotton, near Henley on Arden. His distresses need not be much... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1821 - 428 pages
...my very soul to think on. For a man of high spirit, conscious of having (at least in one production) generally pleased the world, to be plagued and threatened...in order to get rid of the pains of the mind, is a misery."—He died July 19, 1742, and was buried at Wotton, near Henley on Arden. " , His distresses... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1821 - 434 pages
...my very soul to think on. For a man of high spirit, conscious of having (at least in one production) generally pleased the world, to be plagued and threatened...in every sense ; to be forced to drink himself into paias of 4ha bcvta/in* order to get rid of the pains of the mind, is a* misery." — He died July 19,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 346 pages
...my very soul to think on. For a man of high spirit, conscious of having (at least in one production) generally pleased the world, to be plagued and threatened...to get rid of the pains of the mind, is a misery." He died July 19, 1742, and was buried at Wotton, near Henley on Arden. His distresses need not be much... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 452 pages
...my very soul to think on. For a man of high spirit, conscious of having (at least in one production) generally pleased the world, to be plagued and threatened...to get rid of the pains of the mind, is a misery." He died July 19, 1742, and was buried at Wotton, near Henley on Arden. His distresses need not be much... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 446 pages
...my very soul to think on. For a man of high spirit, conscious of having (at least in one production) generally pleased the world, to be plagued and threatened...to get rid of the pains of the mind, is a misery." He died July 19, 1742, and was buried at Wotton, near Henley on Arden. His distresses need not be much... | |
 | 1832 - 698 pages
...and a sealed volume to the many ? Shenstone informs as that Somerville', author of The Chase, "was forced to drink himself into pains of the body, in order to get rid of pains on the mind ;" for the same purpose did Pope dip deep into libations somewhat stronger than the... | |
 | James Boaden - 1824 - 242 pages
...very soul to think on. For a man of high spirit, conscious of having (at least, in one production) generally pleased the world, to be plagued and threatened...to get rid of the pains of the mind — is a misery which I can well conceive, because I may, without vanity, esteem myself his equal in point of (.leconomy,... | |
 | James Boaden - 1824 - 240 pages
...very soul to think on. For a man of high spirit, conscious of having (at leastj in one production) generally pleased the world, to be plagued and threatened...to get rid of the pains of the mind — is a misery which I can well conceive, because I may, without vanity, esteem myself his equal in point of oeconomy,... | |
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I can now excuse all his foibles ; impute them to age, and to distress of circumstances; the last of these considerations wrings my very soul to think on. For a man of high spirit, conscious of having, at least in one production, generally pleased the... 
