| Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1759 - 184 pages
...which all agree to give you." " Praife, faid the fage, with a figh, is to an old man an empty found. I have neither mother to be delighted with the reputation of her fon, nor wife to partake the honours of her hufbandI have outlived my friends and my rivals, Nothing... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 560 pages
...mother td be delighted with the reputation of her fon, nor wife to partake the honours of her hufband. I have outlived my friends and my rivals. Nothing is now of much importance; for I cannot extend my intereft beyond myfelf. Youth is delighted with applaufe; becaufe it is confidered as the earned of... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 534 pages
...which all agree to give you." " Praife, faid the fage, with a Ggh, is to an olci man an empty found. I have neither mother to be delighted with the reputation of her fon, nor wife to .partake the honours of her hufband. I have outlived my friends and my rivals. Nothing... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 546 pages
...agree to give you." " Praife, " Praife, faid the fage, with a figh, is to an old man an empty found. I have neither mother to be delighted with the reputation of her fon, nor wife to partake the honours of her hufband. I have outlived my friends and my rivals. Nothing... | |
| English fiction - 1788 - 778 pages
...be delighted ' with the reputation of her fon, nor ' wife to partake the honours of her * hulband. I have outlived my friends ' and my rivals. Nothing is now of ' much importance; fur I cannot extend 4 my interdi beyon 1 myftlf. Youth is ' delighted with applaufe, becaufe it is... | |
| Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1790 - 318 pages
...all agree to. give you.?> " Praife," faid the fage, with a figh, " is to an old man an empty found. I have neither mother to be delighted •with the reputation of her fon, nor wife to partake the honours of her hufband. I have outlived my friends and my rivals. Nothing... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 586 pages
...to give you." E e 4 " Praife, " Praife, faid the fage, with a figh, is to an old man an empty found. I have neither mother to be delighted with the reputation of her fon, nor wife to partake the honours of her hufband. I have outlived my friends and my rivals. Nothing... | |
| James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...when it is reflected from another.' In Rasselas (ch. xlv. ) he makes a sage say with a sigh :— ' Praise is to an old man an empty sound. I have neither...son, nor wife to partake the honours of her husband.' He here says once more what he had already said in his Letter to Lord Chesterfield (ante, p. 303),... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...when it is reflected from another.' In Rasselas (ch. xlv.) he makes a sage say with a sigh : — ' Praise is to an old man an empty sound. I have neither...son, nor wife to partake the honours of her husband.' He here says once more what he had already said in his Letter to Lord Chesterfield (ante, p. 303),... | |
| Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 462 pages
...which all agree to give you." ** Praife, faid the fage, with a figh, is to an old man an empty found. I have neither mother to be delighted with the reputation of her fon, nor wife to partake the honours of her hufband. I have outlived my friends and my rivals. Nothing... | |
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