 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 630 pages
...Ho that shall resolutely excite his faculties, or exert his virtues, will soon make himself superior heir poets ; and love, that extends lis dominion wherever...exerts the same power in the Greenander's hut as in Stoic philosophy, to make man unshaken by calamity, and unclated by success ; incorruptible by pleasure,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...wind for the only blessings which nature has put into our power, tranquillity and benevolence. — ͜ Alas ! it is too certain, that where the frame has delicate fibres, and there is a fine sensibility,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 378 pages
...He that shall resolutely excite his faculties, or exert his virtues, will soon make himself superior to the seasons; and may set at defiance the morning...blasts of the east, and the clouds of the south." Alas ! it is too certain, that where the frame has delicate fibres, and there is a fine sensibility,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 630 pages
...exert his virtues, will soon make himself superior to the seasons, and may set at defiance the rooming mist, and the evening damp, the blasts of the east,...and the clouds of the south. It was the boast of the Stoic philosophy, to make man unshaken by calamity, and unelated by success ; incorruptible by pleasure,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1846 - 602 pages
...wind for the only blessings which nature has put into our power, tranquillity and benevolence. — This distinction of seasons is produced only by imagination...blasts of the east, and the clouds of the south." Alas ! it is too certain, that where the frame has delicate fibres, and there is a fine sensibility,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 374 pages
...He that shall resolutely excite his faculties, or exert his virtues, will soon make himself superior to the seasons ; and may set at defiance the morning...blasts of the east, and the clouds of the south." Alas ! it is too certain, that where the frame has delicate fibres, and there is a fine sensibility,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 pages
...He that shall resolutely excite his faculties, or exert his virtues, will aoon make himself superior to the seasons; and may set at defiance the morning...blasts of the east, and the clouds of the south." Alms ! it is too certain, that where the frame has delicate fibres, and there is a fine sensibility,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1904 - 872 pages
...He that shall resolutely excite his faculties, or exert his virtues, will soon make himself superior to the seasons, and may set at defiance the morning...the blasts of the east and the clouds of the south.' Johnson had a robust common sense and a penetrating understanding which enabled him usually to get... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 496 pages
...He that shall resolutely excite his faculties or exert his virtues, will soon make himself superior to the seasons ; and may set at defiance the morning...blasts of the east, and the clouds of the south." Alas ! it is too certain, that where the frame has delicate fibres, and -there is a fine sensibility,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 pages
...He that shall resolutely excite bis faculties, or exert his virtues, will soon make himself superior r money profusely, which they are ready enough to do, and not vie with them in Alas ! it is too certain, that where the frame has delicate fibres, and there is a fine sensibility,... | |
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This distinction of seasons is produced only by imagination operating on luxury. To temperance, every day is bright ; and every hour is propitious to diligence. He that shall resolutely excite his faculties, or exert his virtues, will soon make himself... 
