 Not only the images of rural life, but the occasions on which they can be properly produced, are few and general. The state of a man confined to the employments and pleasures of the country, is so little diversified, and exposed to so few of those accidents...  The Rambler - Page 206by Samuel Johnson - 1809Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 466 pages
...complicated tranfactions, that he can be fhewn but feldom in fuch circumftances as attract curiofity. His ambition is without policy, and his love without...complaints to make of his rival, but that he is richer than himfelf ; nor any difafters to lament, but a cruel miftrefs, or a bad harveft. The conviction of the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 626 pages
...complicated tranfactions, that he can be fhewn but feldom in fuch circumftances as attract curiofity. His ambition is without policy, and his love without...complaints to make of his rival, but that he is richer than himfelf ; nor any difafters to lament, but a cruel miftrefs, or a bad harveft. The conviction of the... | |
 | 1801 - 342 pages
...complicated tranfa£Hons, that he can be fhewn but feldoni in fuch circumftances as attract curiofity. His ambition is without policy, and his love without...complaints to make of his rival, but that he is richer than himielf ; nor any divifters to lament, but a cruel miftrefs, or a bad harveft. The conviction of the... | |
 | 1803 - 322 pages
...the occasions on which they can be properly produced, are few and general. The state of man confined to the employments and pleasures of the country, is...surprises in more complicated transactions, that he can be shown but seldom in such circumstances as attract curiosity. His ambition is without policy, and his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...which pastoral poetry can be 'properly produced, are few, and g-enemJ. The state of a man confined to the employments and pleasures of the country, is so little diversified, are exposed to so few of those accidents which produce perplexities, terrors, and surprises, ia more... | |
 | 1806 - 348 pages
...confined to the employments' and pleasures of the untry, is so little diversified, and exposed to so 'of those accidents which produce perplexities, terrors,...complaints to make of his rival, but that he is richer than himself ; nor any disasters to lament, but a cruel mistress, or a bad harvest. The conviction of the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 380 pages
...occasions on which they can be properly produced, are few and general. The state of a man confined to the employments and pleasures of the country, is...seldom in such circumstances as attract curiosity. His ambitioi* is without policy, and his love without intrigue. He has no complaints to make of his rival,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 372 pages
...occasion* on which they can be properly produced, are few and general. The state of a man confined to the employments and pleasures of the country, is...without policy, and his love without intrigue. He has rto complaints to make of his rival, •but that he is richer than himself ; nor any disasters to lament,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 462 pages
...occasions on which they can be properly produced, are few and general. The state of a man confined to the employments and pleasures of the country, is...few of those accidents which produce perplexities, terrours, and surprises, prises, in more complicated transactions, that he can be shown but seldom... | |
 | 1810 - 464 pages
...occasions on which they can be properly produced, are few and general. The state of a man confined to the employments and pleasures of the country, is...few of those accidents which produce perplexities, terrours, and surprises, prises, in more complicated transactions, that he can be shown but seldom... | |
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