 ... 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
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 622 pages
...celibacy." — " To live, (add* 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 pity, is a state more gloomy than solitude : it is not retreat, but exclusion,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 606 pages
...celibacy."—" To live, (adds the «ame writer, in another place,) without feeling or extiting 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, but exclusion,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 458 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...or afflicted without tafting the balm of pity, is a Ilate more gloomy than folitude : it is not retreat, but exclufion from mankind. Marriage has many... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 462 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 afflicted without lafting the balm of pity, is a ftate more gloomy than folitude: it is not retreat, but exclufion from... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 pages
...disturb that society 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, but exclusion from... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...that" society which debars them from its privileges. To h've 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, but exclusion from... | |
 | English literature - 1770 - 790 pages
...pleafurc to dilturb the fociety whick debars them of its privileges.. To live without feeling or exciting fympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflifted without th,e balm of pity, is a (late more gloomy than folitude; it is not retreat, but exclufion... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Historical fiction - 1809 - 210 pages
...disturb that society 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, but exclusion from... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 458 pages
...disturb that society 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 with-, out tasting the balm of pity, is a state more gloomy than solitude : it is not retreat, but... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - English fiction - 1811 - 250 pages
...disturb that society 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, but exclusion from... | |
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