 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1854 - 564 pages
...thing about it for the world.' " — PIOZZI.] PROLOGUE CEN BY DR. JOm Spoken ly Mr. Bensley.* PRESS'D by the load of life, the weary mind Surveys the general toil of human kind ; With eool submission joins the lab'ring train, And soeial sorrow loses half its pain :f Our anxious bard,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 500 pages
...feelings. Who could suppose it was to introduce a comedy when Mr. Bensley solemnly began — ' Press'd by 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." — BOSWELL by CRORER, p. 189.... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 578 pages
...lover of portentous delivery, seems to have thrown into the heavy opening of Johnson's prologue, Prest by the load of life, the weary mind Surveys the general toil of human kind, a ponderous gloom, which, at the outset, dashed the spirits of the audience. Nor did Mr. Powell's Honeywood... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1854 - 560 pages
...feelings. Who conlcl suppose it was to introduce a comedy when Mr. Bensley solemnly began 'Presu'd by the load of life, the weary mind Surveys the general toil of human kind.1 But this dark ground might make Goldsmith's humor shine the more." — • BOSWELL, vol. iii.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Irish Literature (in English) - 1854 - 348 pages
...Scene— LONDON. THE GOOD-NATURED MAN. PROLOGUE, WRITTEN BY 1>K JOHNSON, SPOKEN B'f Jill BZNSLKY. PRESS'D by the load of life, the weary mind Surveys the general toil of human kmd, With cool submission joins the lab'ring train, And social sorrow loses half its pain : Our anxious... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1855 - 276 pages
...desert — beyond the grave. PROLOGUE TO GOLDSMITH'S COMEDY OF 'THE GOOD-NATURED MAN,' 1769. PBESS'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 poetry - 1855 - 272 pages
...desert — beyond the grave. PROLOGUE TO GOLDSMITH'S COMEDY OF ' THE GOOD-NATURED MAN,' 1769. 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 560 pages
...feelings. Who could suppose it was to introduce a comedy when Mr. Bensley solemnly began ' Pres»'d by the load of life, the weary mind Surveys the general toil of human kind.' But this dark ground might make Goldsmith's humor shine the more."— BOSWILL, vol. iii. p. 35.] f... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 448 pages
...sufficient passport to his protection. M PEOLOGUE, WRITTEN BY DR. JOHNSON. SPOKEN BT MM. JlKN.SI.UV. PREST 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.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1857 - 560 pages
...Garnet. Landlady. THE GOOD-NATURED MAN. PKOLOGUE, WRITTEN BY DR. JOHNSON, SPOKEN BT MR. BENSLET PRESS'D by the load of life, the weary mind Surveys the general...toil of human kind, With cool submission joins the laboring 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... 
