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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... "
The Madras University Calendar - Page lxvi
by University of Madras - 1873
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A Book of the Play, Volume 1

Edward Dutton Cook - 1876 - 346 pages
...certainly open to the charge brought against it of undue solemnity. The first lines — Press'd with the load of life the weary mind Surveys the general toil of human kind — when enunciated in the sepulchral tones of Bensley, the tragedian, were judged to have a depressing...
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Acme Library of Standard Biography: Third Series

Authors, English - 1880 - 556 pages
...could suppose it was to introduce a comedy, when Mr. Bensley solemnly began — " • Pressed with the load of life, the weary mind Surveys the general toil of humankind ? ' But this dark ground might make Goldsmith's humour shine the more." When we come to the...
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The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Volume 1

Oliver Goldsmith - 1881 - 500 pages
...Mr, Eensley.1 PBESS'D by the load of life, the weary mind Surveys the general toil of humankind ;a With cool submission joins the lab'ring train, And social sorrow loses half its pain : ' Onr anxious bard, without complaint, may share This bustling season's epidemic care, Like Caesar's...
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A New History of the English Stage, from the Restoration to the Liberty of ...

Percy Fitzgerald - Theater - 1882 - 484 pages
...good sense of his little composition, we beg leave to submit it to the consideration of our readers : Pressed by the load of life, the weary mind Surveys...toil of human kind; With cool submission joins the labouring train, And social sorrow loses half its pain : Oar anxious bard, without complaint, may share...
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The Royal Readers: Special Canadian Series ..., Book 5

1883 - 528 pages
...Who could suppose it was to introduce a comedy, when Mr. Bensley solemnly began — " ' Pressed with the load of life, the weary mind Surveys the general toil of humankind ' ? But this dark ground might make Goldsmith's humor shine the more." When we come to the...
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The good-natured man, a comedy ed. by H. Littledale

Oliver Goldsmith - 1884 - 104 pages
...sufficient passport to his protection. PEOLOGUE. WRITTEN BY DR. JOHNSON; SPOKEN BY MR. BENSLEY. Press'd by the load of life, the weary mind Surveys the general...lab'ring train, And social sorrow loses half its pain: (4) Our anxious bard, without complaint, may share This bustling season's epidemic care, Like Caesar's...
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The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Poems. Plays. The bee. Cock-lane ghost

Oliver Goldsmith - 1885 - 494 pages
...— LONDON. THE GOOD-NATURED MAN. PROLOGUE. WRITTEN BY DR. JOHNSON, SPOKEN BY MR. BENSLEY. PRESS'D by the load of life, the weary mind Surveys the general...lab'ring train, And social sorrow loses half its pain : 1 Our anxious bard, without complaint, may share This bustling season's epidemic care, Like Caesar's...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with the Journal of a Tour to ...

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1884 - 742 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.3 1 This letter first appeared in...
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The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Poems. Plays. The bee. Cock-lane ghost

Oliver Goldsmith - 1885 - 520 pages
...— LONDON. THE GOOD-NATURED MAN. PKOLOGUE. WEITTEN BY DE. JOHNSON, SPOKEN BY MR. BENSLEY. PEESS'D by the load of life, the weary mind Surveys the general...lab'ring train, And social sorrow loses half its pain : l Our anxious bard, without complaint, may share This bustling season's epidemic care, Like Caesar's...
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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

Samuel Johnson - Fiction - 1887 - 216 pages
...peculiar pleasure ; the pleasure which belongs to it, and to it alone. 1. 1 6. burthened with myself. ' Pressed by the load of life the weary mind Surveys the general toil of human kind.' Johnson, Prologue to The Good Natured Man. 1. 17. I have, &c. : — ' The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed...
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