 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1850 - 532 pagina’s
...contribute to domestick 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 charms made only for distant admiration. No spectacle is nobler than a blaze." Waller was a second time returned to Parliament... | |
 | John Coleman (of Dover.) - 1851 - 892 pagina’s
...affections was not difficult. As Dr. Johnson observes, " He doubtless praised some whom he would be afraid to marry, and perhaps married one whom he would have been ashamed to praise." The most substantial fact recorded of this lady, is that she brought her husband... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 pagina’s
...poetry ; nor is anything 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 domestic happiness, upon which poetry has no colours... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 360 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 domestic happiness, upon which poetry has no colours... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 pagina’s
...apprehension by one of Dr. Johnson's admirable sentences in his Life of Waller : " He doubtless praised many ccustom a servant to tell a lie for me, have I not reason to apprehend that he will tell ma ashamed to praise. Many qualities contribute to domestic happiness, upon which poetry has no colours... | |
 | 1860 - 634 pagina’s
..." ; and the old moralist goes on, in true Johnsonian style, to remark : " 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 colors... | |
 | Charles Kent - 1864 - 492 pagina’s
...observes, in one of those sonorous sentences so provokingly equipoised, " he doubtless praised one whom he would have been afraid to marry, and perhaps married one whom he would have been ashamed to praise." This, recollect, from one who, having himself espoused (with all her vulgarity)... | |
 | Henry Lewis (M.A.) - 1869 - 196 pagina’s
...creates." "When reason is against a man, he will be against reason." " Waller doubtless praised some whom he would have been afraid to marry, and perhaps married one whom he would have been ashamed to praise." When in parallel sentences the corresponding terms are intended to stand out in... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1873 - 448 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 charms made only for distant admiration — no spectacle is nobler than a blaze. A certain dissimilitude of habitudes and... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1873 - 388 pagina’s
...That dull and foolish girls were so often selected for matrimony, in • ' 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 domestic 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... 
