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" The freaks, and humours, and spleen, and vanity of women, as they embroil families in discord, and fill houses with disquiet, do more to obstruct the happiness of life in a year than the ambition of the clergy in many centuries. "
Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson - Page 154
by Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 323 pages
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1871 - 544 pages
...if they had both succeeded, it were easy to tell who would have deserved most from public gratitude. The freaks, and humours, and spleen, and vanity of women, as they embroil families in discord, and 611 houses with ilis1juiut, do more to obstruct the happiness of life in a yanr than the ambition of...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope - 1873 - 590 pages
...to the Lutrin, scarcely required to be refuted with mock gravity by Dr Johnson, who declares that ' the freaks, and humours, and spleen, and vanity of...than the ambition of the clergy in many centuries.' Strange to say, the opposite objection has recently been made to a work of which the execution has...
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Johnson. Select works, ed. with intr. and notes by A. Milnes. Lives of ...

Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 pages
...if they had both succeeded, it were easy to tell who would have deserved most from public gratitude. The freaks, and humours, and spleen, and vanity of...evil, but from small vexations continually repeated. It is remarked by Dennis likewise, that the machinery is superfluous ; that, by all the bustle of preternatural...
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The Six Chief Lives from Johnson's Lives of the Poets: With Macaulay's Life ...

Samuel Johnson - 1881 - 570 pages
...they had both succeeded, it were easy to tell who would have deserved most from publick gratitude. The freaks, and humours, and spleen, and vanity of...than the ambition of the clergy in many centuries,. _J[i_has been well observed, that the misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming...
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Literary Epochs: Chapters on Noted Periods of Intellectual Activity

George Frederick Underhill - 1887 - 234 pages
...the damsel revenged herself for the outrage. It was this poem that made Dr. Johnson declare that " the freaks, and humours, and spleen, and vanity of...than the ambition of the clergy in many centuries." Certainly in the reign of Anne the vanity of the ladies led them to use more artificial means of adornment...
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All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal, Volume 61

1887 - 610 pages
...made him perforce a constant exponent of the ills of life, was surely reasonable when he wrote that : "The freaks, and humours, and spleen, and vanity of...than the ambition of the clergy in many centuries." " Would to the gods every tree bore such fruit ! " exclaimed Diogenes, when he saw a woman hanging...
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All the Year Round, Volume 41

1887 - 752 pages
...exponent of the ills of life, was surely reasonable when he wrote that : "The freaks, and humour?, anil spleen, and vanity of women, as they embroil families...than the ambition of the clergy in many centuries." " Would to the gods every tree bore Mich fruit ! " exclaimed Diogenes, when he saw a woman hanging...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Poetry

Alexander Pope - 1871 - 542 pages
...if they had both succeeded, it were easy to tell who would have deserved most from public gratitude. The freaks, and humours, and spleen, and vanity of...evil, but from small vexations continually repeated. It is remarked by Dennis likewise that the machinery is superfluous ; that by all the bustle of preternatural...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Poetry

Alexander Pope - 1871 - 542 pages
...if they had both succeeded, it were easy to tell who would have deserved most from public gratitude. The freaks, and humours, and spleen, and vanity of...been well observed, that the misery of man proceeds uot from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexatious continually repeated. It is...
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Johnson's Lives of the Poets, Volume 3

Samuel Johnson - 1890 - 480 pages
...they had both succeeded, it were easy to tell who would have deserved most from publick gratitude. The freaks, and humours, and spleen, and vanity of...with disquiet, do more to obstruct the happiness of lif e in a year than the ambition of the clergy in many centuries. It has been well observed, that...
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