 It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own narrow pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness, such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts, and much feeling for the rest of the...  Platt's essays - Page 50by James Platt - 1883Full view - About this book
 | James Hain Friswell - 1864 - 376 pages
...is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring much about our own narrow pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness, such as goes...great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling with the rest of the world, as well as ourselves ; and this sort of happiness often brings so much... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1864 - 340 pages
...is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring much about our own narrow pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness, such as goes...great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling with the rest of the world, as well as ourselves ; and this sort of happiness often brings so much... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1866 - 818 pages
...and we hear the voice of Herr Teufelsdrockh and the "Everlasting Yea" when Romola declares to Lillo, "We can only have the highest happiness, such as goes...and much feeling for the rest of the world, as well as for ourselves ; and this sort of happiness often brings so much pain with it, that we can only tell... | |
 | 1866 - 802 pages
...and the " Everlasting Yea" when Romola declares to Lillo, " We can only have the highest happi" ness, such as goes along with being a " great man, by having...much feeling for the rest of the " world, as well as for ourselves ; and " this sort of happiness often brings so " much pain with it, that we can only... | |
 | 1866 - 506 pages
..." Everlasting Yea" when Komola declares to Lille. " We can only have the highest happi" ness, euch as goes along with being a " great man, by having...much feeling for the rest of the " world, as well as for ourselves ; anil " this sort of happiness often brings so " much pain with it, that we can only... | |
 | 1868 - 582 pages
...lofty and tenderwordsfrom Romola to Tito's child : " We can only have the highest happi" ness, and such as goes along with ' being a great man, by having wide ' thought?, and much feeling for the ' rest of the world as well as ourselves ; ' and this sort of... | |
 | George Eliot - 1870 - 816 pages
...poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own narrow pleasures. Wu can only have the highest happiness, such as goes...great man, by having wide thoughts, and ! much feeling tor the rest of the world as well as ourselves ; and this sort of happiness often brings so much pain... | |
 | 1873 - 778 pages
...only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own narrow pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness, such as goes...and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as for ourselves ; and this sort of happiness often brings so much pain with it, that we can only tell... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - 1873 - 766 pages
...only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own narrow pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness, such as goes...and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as for ourselves ; and this sort of happiness often brings so much pain with it, that we can only tell... | |
 | George Eliot, Alexander Main - 1873 - 444 pages
...sort of happiness, my Lille, that could ever come by caring very much about our own narrow pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness, such as goes...with being a great man, by having wide thoughts, and much.feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves ; and this sort of happiness often brings... | |
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