 | Robert Anderson - Authors, English - 1815 - 660 pages
...moralization, and expressed in a strain of solemnity unexampled in an introduction to a comedy. " Press'd by the load of life, the weary mind Surveys the general toil of human kind." " The Good-Natured Man " kept possession of the stage for nine nights ; but was not judged, by the... | |
 | Thomas Dibdin - English drama - 1815 - 498 pages
...seldom brought forward on the stage. PROLOGUE. WRITTEN BY DR. JOHNSON. SPOKEN BY MR. BENSLEY. PREST by the load of life, the weary mind Surveys the general toil of humankind ; With cool submission joins the labouring train, And social sorrow loses half its pain :... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1816 - 154 pages
...yours to crown desert, beyond the grave. PROLOGUE TO THE COMEDY OF THE GOOD-NATURED MAS, ir69. PBEST by the load of life, the weary mind Surveys the general...toil of human kind, With cool submission joins the labouring train, And social sorrow loses half its pain; Our anxious bard without complaint may share... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 442 pages
...feelings. Who could suppose it was to introduce a comedy, when Mr. Bensley solemnly began, " Press'd with the load of life, the weary mind "Surveys the general toil of human kind." But this dark ground might make Goldsmith's humour shine the more. In the spring of this year, having... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 376 pages
...feelings. Who could suppose it was to introduce a comedy, when Mr. Bensley solemnly began, " Press'd with the load of life, the weary mind ' Surveys the general toil of human kind." But this dark ground might make Goldsmith's humour shine the more. In the sprihg of this year, having... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1822 - 472 pages
...feelings. Who could suppose it was to introduce a comedy, when Mr. Bensley solemnly began,, " Press'd with the load of life, the weary mind " Surveys the general toil of human kind." * Prayers and Meditations, p. 81. But this dark ground might make Goldsmith's humour shine the more.1... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 320 pages
...yours to crown desert beyond the grave. s2 TO GOLDSMITH'S COMEDY OF THE GOOD-NATLRED MAN. 1769. PRESS'D by the load of life, the weary mind Surveys the general toil of humankind, With cool submission joins the labouring train, And social sorrow loses half its pain :... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1825 - 476 pages
...sufficient passport to his protection. VOL. II. 8 PROLOGUE, WRITTEN BY DR JOHNSON; MR BENSLEY. PREST by the load of life, the weary mind Surveys the general...toil of human kind ; With cool submission joins the lab' ring train, And social sorrow loses half its pain : Our anxious bard, without complaint, may share... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 pages
...yours to crown desert beyond the grave. TO GOLDSMITH'S COMEDY OF THE GOODNATURED MAN. l769. PRESS'D by the load of life, the weary mind Surveys the general...toil of human kind , With cool submission joins the labouring train, And social sorrow loses half its pain : Our anxious bard without complaint may share... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 750 pages
...the grave. v'vU.: .0 PROLOGUE TO THE COMEDY OF THE GOOD-NATURED MAN, 1700. PREST by the load of Hfe, the weary mind Surveys the general toil of human kind, With cool submission joins the labouring train, And social sorrow loses half its pain : Our anxious bard without complaint may share... | |
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With cool submission joins the labouring train, And social sorrow loses half its pain : Our anxious Bard, without complaint, may share This bustling season's epidemic care, Like... 
