 Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment, that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust; and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to every other course of...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 327by Samuel Johnson - 1806Full view - About this book
 | 1803 - 268 pages
...drags his jaded limbs and burst his wind. FRANCIS. SUCH is the emptiness of human enjoyment, that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is...malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage maybe applied to every other course of life, that its two daj.s of happiness are the first and the... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 272 pages
...behind, He drags his jaded limbs and burst his wind. SUCH is the emptiness of human enjoyment, that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is...course of life, that its two days of happiness are tlie first and the last. Few moments are more pleasing than those in which the mind is concerting measures... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 412 pages
...He drag his jaded-limbs and burst his wind. s. > UCH is the emptiness of human enjoyment, that vre are always impatient of the present. Attainment is...and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist •n marriage may be applied to every other course of life, that its two days of happiness are the... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 pages
...Discontent, the common lot of all Mankind. SUCH is the emptiness of human enjoyment, that -w» ere always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust. — Few moments are more pleasing than those in which the mind is concerting measures for a new undertaking.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 414 pages
...is the emptiness of human enjoyment, that j we are always impatient of the present. Attain- j ment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust;...Few moments are more pleasing than those in which I the mind is concerting measures for a new undertak- 1 ing. From the first hint that wakens the fancy... | |
 | 1822 - 370 pages
...drags his jaded limbs and burst his wind. FRANCIS. SUCH is the emptiness of human enjoyment, that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is...applied to every other course of life, that its two days happiness are the first and the last. Few moments are more pleasing than those in which the mind is... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 378 pages
...drags his jaded limbs and burst his wind. FRANCIS. SUCH is the emptiness of human enjoyment, that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is...applied to every other course of life, that its two days happiness are the first and the last. Few moments are more pleasing than those in which the mind is... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...that flies out of the hedge.— Selden. CCCCXXVL Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment, that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is...two days of happiness are the first and the last.— Johnson. The honour of a maid is her name; and no legacy is so rich as honesty. — Shakspeare. CCCCXXVIIL... | |
 | 1832 - 240 pages
...on garbage. — Noctes Ambrosiance. DISCONTENT. Such is the emptiness of human enjoyments, that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is...two days of happiness are the first and the last. CURE FOR THE GOUT. The celebrated Linnaeus, when he was forty-three years of age, was subject to such... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...BLAIR. 1 8. DISCONTENT THE COMMON LOT OP ALL MANKIND. SUCH is the emptiness of human enjoyment, that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust. — Few moments are more pleasing than those in which the mind is concerting measures for a new undertaking.... | |
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