| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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