 | Oliver Goldsmith - England - 1859 - 618 pages
...suffieient passport tr his proteetion. WRITTEN BY DR SAMUEL JOHNSCX. »POKEN BY MR BENSLEY. PKESS'D by the load of life, the weary mind Surveys the general toil of humankind ; With cool submission joins the labouring train. And soeial sorrow loses half its pain.... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1860 - 960 pages
...feelings. Who could suppose it was to introduce a comedy, when Mr. Bensley solemnly began, " Press'd with llen married him to his niece ; so, by Allen's interest and his own, he w But this dark ground might make Goldsmith's humour shine the more. 1 In the spring of this year, having... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1861 - 570 pages
...Garnet. Landlady. THE GOOD-NATURED MAN. PROLOGUE, WRITTEN BY DR. JOHNSON, SPOKEN BY MR. BESSLBT PRKSS'D by the load of life, the weary mind Surveys the general...kind, "With cool submission joins the lab'ring train, Arid social sorrow loses half its pain : Our anxious bard, without complaint, may share This bustling... | |
 | James Beattie, Oliver Goldsmith - Gift books - 1864 - 540 pages
...sufficient passport to his protection. PROLOGUE, WEITTEN BY DE JOHNSON. SPOKEN BY MR BENSLEY. 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 - 1872 - 524 pages
...iPOKEN BY ME. BRINSLEY, AT THE FIRST PERFORMANCE AT COVENT-GAEDEN THEATRE, JANUARY 29, 1768. 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... | |
 | Alexander Main - Literary Criticism - 1874 - 482 pages
...Johnson's state of mind when composing the Prologue is found in two such lines as these : : Press'd with the load of life, the weary mind Surveys the general toil of human kind." Strange lines to get into the midst of the Prologue to a Comedy ; but it has been ever so — sorrow... | |
 | ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 pages
...Johnson's state of mind when composing the Prologue is found in two such lines as these: " Press'd with the load of life, the weary mind Surveys the general toil of human kind." Strange lines to get into the midst of the Prologue to a Comedy; but it has been ever so—sorrow has... | |
 | 1874 - 844 pages
...which he meant to be light reading. He begins the prologue to a comedy with the words : Pressed with the load of life, the weary mind Surveys the general toil of human kind. In the Life of Savage he makes the common remark that the lives of many of the greatest teachers of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 602 pages
...Who could suppose that 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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 810 pages
...he meant to be light reading. He begins the prologue to a comedy with the words : — Pressed with the load of life, the weary mind Surveys the general toil of humankind. In the Life of Savage he makes the common remark that the lives of many of the greatest... | |
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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... 
