 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pagina’s
...contribute to domestic happiness, upon which poetry has no colours to bestow; and many airs and sallies may delight imagination, which he who flatters them never can approve. There are are charms made only for distant admiration. No spectacle is nobler thaa a blaze. Of this wife, his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 482 pagina’s
...nor is any thing told of her, but that fhe brought him •many children. He doubtlefs praifed fome whom he would have been afraid to marry, and perhaps...poetry has no colours to beftow } and many airs and fallies may delight imagination, which he who flatters them never can approve. There are charms made... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 514 pagina’s
...of Dr. Johnson's admirable sen- ^'^ tences in his life of Waller: " He doubtless praised 59.' many whom he would have been afraid to marry ; and, perhaps, married one whom he would have been ashamed to praise. Many qualities contribute to domestick happiness, upon which poetry has no colours... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 508 pagina’s
...apprehension by one of Dr. Johnson's admirable sentences in his life of Waller : " He doubtless praised many whom he would have been afraid to marry; and, perhaps, married one whom he would have been ashamed to praise. Many qualities contribute to domestick happiness, upon which poetry has no colours... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 228 pagina’s
...will be removed, and the fair and comfortable order of improved life will be miserably disturbed." . . would have been afraid to marry; and, perhaps, married one whom he would have been ashamed to praise. Many qualities contribute to domestic happiness, upon which poetry has no colours... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pagina’s
...poetry ; nor is any thing told of her, but that she brought him many children. He doubtless praised some whom he would have been afraid to marry, and perhaps married one whom he would have been ashamed to praise. Many qualities contribute to domestick happiness, upon which poetry has no colours... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 pagina’s
...contribute to donestic happiness, upon which poetry has no colours to bestow ; and many airs and sallies mav delight imagination, which he who flatters them never can approve. There are charms made only for distant admiration. No spectacle is nobler than a blaze. Of this wife his biographers have recorded,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pagina’s
...poetry ; nor is any thing told of her, but that she brought him many children. He doubtless praised some whom he would have been afraid to marry, and perhaps married one whom he would have been ashamed to praise. Many qualities contribute to domestick happiness, upon which poetry has no colours... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 496 pagina’s
...thing told of her, but that she brought him many children. He doubtless, says Johnson, praised some whom he would have been -afraid to marry, and perhaps married one whom he would have been ashamed to praise. Many qualities contribute to domestic happiness, upon which poetry has jio colours... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 486 pagina’s
...poetry ; nor is any thing told of her, but that she brought him many children. He doubtless praised some whom he would have been afraid to marry, and perhaps married one whom he would have been ashamed to praise. Many qualities contribute to domestick happiness, upon which poetry has no colours... | |
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He doubtless praised some whom he would have been afraid to marry, and perhaps married one whom he would have been ashamed to praise. Many qualities contribute to domestic happiness, upon which poetry has no colours to bestow ; and many airs and sallies... 
