 ... yet the toil with which performance struggles after idea, is so irksome and disgusting, and so frequent is the necessity of resting below that perfection which we imagined within our reach, that seldom any man obtains more from his endeavours than...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. - Pagina 386door Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 416 pagina’s
...frequent is the neceffity of refting below that perfection which we imagined within our reach, that feldom any man obtains more from his endeavours than a painful conviction of his defects, and a continual refufcitation of defires which he feels himfelf unable to gratify. So certainly is wearinefs the concomitant... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 422 pagina’s
...is the neceffity of refting below that perfection which we imagined •within our reach, that feldom any man obtains more from his endeavours than a painful conviction of his defecls, and a continual refufcitation of defires which he feels himfcU unable to gratify. So certainly... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 444 pagina’s
...frequent is the neceffity of refting below that perfection which we imagined within our reach, that leldom any man obtains more from his endeavours than a painful conviction of his defects, and a continual refufcitation of defires which he feels himfelf unable to gratify. So certainly is wearinefs the concomitant... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1797 - 516 pagina’s
...frequent is the neceflity of refting below that perfection which we imagined within our reach, that feldom any man obtains more from his endeavours than a painful conviction of his defecb, and a. continual refufcitation of dcfires which he feels himfelf unable to gratify. So certainly... | |
 | 1801 - 320 pagina’s
...frequent is the neceffity oi refting below that perfeclion which we imagined within our reach, that feldom any man obtains more from his endeavours than a painful conviction of his defects, and and a. continual refufcitation of defires which he feels himfelf unable to gratify. So certainly is... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 354 pagina’s
...recreated by unexpected facility, and the imagination soothed by incidental excellencies ; yet lie toil with which performance struggles after idea,...resting below that perfection which we imagined within out reach, that seldom any man obtains more from his endeavours than a painful conviction of his defects,... | |
 | 1806 - 420 pagina’s
...frequent is the neceffity of. reding below that perfection which we imagined within our reach, that feldom any man obtains more from his endeavours than a painful conviction of his defects, and a continual refufcitation of defires which he feels himfelf unable to gratify. So certainly is wearinefs the concomitant... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1809 - 914 pagina’s
...past, is an employment too fearful for the present spirits of the Author. "The toil," says Johnson, "with which performance struggles after idea, is so...disgusting, and so frequent is the necessity of resting bdow that perfection, which we imagined within our reach, that seldom any man obtains more from his... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1813 - 354 pagina’s
...past, is an employment too fearful for the present spirits of the Author: " The toil," says Johnson, " with which performance struggles after idea, is so...desires, which he feels himself unable to gratify." But he who declines to act till he can reach ideal excellence, is a selfish coward ,- and surely he,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 272 pagina’s
...struggles after idea, is so irksome and disgusting, and so frequent is the necessity of resting below the perfection which we imagined within our reach, that...more from his endeavours than a painful conviction of big defects, and a continual resuscitation of desires which he feels himself unable to gratify. So... | |
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