 There are few things not purely evil, of which we can say, without some emotion of uneasiness, this is the last. Those who never could agree together, shed tears when mutual discontent has determined them to final separation ; of a place which has been...  Poetic Closure: A Study of How Poems End - Side xviaf Barbara Herrnstein Smith - 1968 - 289 siderBegrænset visning - Om denne bog
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 sider
...what virtue there is, misery produces far the greater part.' 4 ' There are few things,' he writes, ' not purely evil, of which we can say, without some emotion of uneasiness, this is the last. . . . The secret horrour of the last is inseparable from a thinking being, whose life is limited, and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 sider
...have now come to the end of my long labours. ' There are few things not purely evil,' wrote Johnson, ' of which we can say without some emotion of uneasiness, this is tlie fast'.' From this emotion I cannot feign that I am free. My book has been my companion in many... | |
 | 1803 - 222 sider
...Idler and his readers have contracted no close friendship, they are perhaps both unwilling to part. There are few things not purely evil, of which we...separation ; of a place which has been frequently visited, though without pleasure, the last look is taken with heaviness of heart ; and the Idler, with all his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 sider
...uneasiness; " Thh is the last." Those who never could agree Mier, shed tears when mutual discontent has liued them to final separation; of a place which has been frequently visited, though without pleasure, the last look is taken with heaviness of heart. Ibid. vol. z, p. 281. T A... | |
 | 1805 - 570 sider
...preface is succeeded by an introduction, in which that well-known sentiment ' that there are few things purely evil, of which we can say without some emotion of uneasiness, This is the lasf is applied. to Mr. Pratt's Harvest Home, and intended to obviate our interpretation of the title.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1806 - 360 sider
...Idler and his readers have contracted no close friendship, they are perhaps both unwilling to part. There are few things not purely evil, of which we...separation ; of a place which has been frequently visited, though without pleasure, the last look is taken with heaviness of heart ; and the Idler, with all his... | |
 | Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 578 sider
...possihle for me to do, that I shall not make the attempt. " There are few things not purely evil, of whieh we can say " without some emotion of uneasiness, this is the last ! Even " those who never could agree tngether, shed tears when mutual " discontent has determined them... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 524 sider
...strongly pathetic and awfully serious. " There are few things not purely evil," says the moralist, " of which we can say, without some emotion of uneasiness,...them to final separation ; of a place which has been frequsntly visited, though without pleasure, the last look is taken with heaviness of heart; and the... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 530 sider
...strongly pathetic and awfully serious. " There are few things not purely evil," says the moralist, " of which we can say, without some emotion of uneasiness,...them to final separation ; of a place which has been frequsntly visited, though without pleasure, the last look is taken with heaviness of heart; and the... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 520 sider
...strongly pathetic and awfully serious. " There are few things not purely evil," says the moralist, " of which we can say, without some emotion of uneasiness, this is the lastThose who never could agree together shed tears when mutual discontent has determined them to final... | |
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