 | Goold Brown - 1851 - 1124 pages
...adjuncts of both, denominated the predicate, or the loyical prtdicate. Thus : — EXAMPLE ANALYZED. " Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment, that we are always...is followed by neglect, and possession, by disgust. Few moments are more pleasing than those in which the mind is concerting measures for a new undertaking.... | |
 | William Harvey Wells - 1880 - 208 pages
...also industrious." Such — as: " There never was such a time as the present." Such — that: " Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment that we are always impatient of the present" Than should be used to correspond with rather, other, else, and all comparatives: " I would rather... | |
 | Evan Daniel - 1881 - 420 pages
...families, than the other families. It. Chambert. Such and so sometimes take that after them— Suth is the emptiness of human enjoyment that we are always impatient of the present. — Joknson. He spoke so loud that I was nearly stunned. 246. Though requires yet ; whether or ; either... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 pages
...little more than a little is by much too much. — Shakespeare. Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust; and the malicious remark of...two days of happiness are the first and the last. — Johnson. SATIRE. Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders generally discover everybody's face... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 pages
...whereof little more than a little is by much too much.— Shakespeare. Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of...Greek epigrammatist on marriage, may be applied to many another course of life, that its two days of happiness are the first and the last. — Johnion.... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 772 pages
...little is by much too much. — Shakespeare. Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by dixgnst, made, as it were, too big for it ; and extend themselves many another course of life, that its two days of happiness are the first and the last.— Johnion.... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1918 - 186 pages
...pricked into activity by a sense of void and the necessity of doing something to occupy our minds ; "such is the emptiness of human enjoyment that we are always impatient of the present," 3 and " none are happy but by the anticipation of change " ; 4 while any permanent amelioration in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1968 - 400 pages
...horse, Lest, in the race derided, left behind, He drag his jaded limbs and burst his wind. Francis. Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment, that we are always...that its two days of happiness are the first and the last.1 Few moments are more pleasing than those in which the mind is concerting measures for a new... | |
 | Sarah Jordan - 2003 - 308 pages
...the vacuity of life. We are always wishing the present would hurry up and become the past — "Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment, that we are always impatient of the present" —so that we can arrive at the joys we have imagined will happen in the future. Once we get there,... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1864 - 582 pages
...following strain of ponderous and polysyllabic moralising, Dr. Johnson discourses on discontent. ' Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment, that we are always...is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust. Few moments are more pleasing than those in which the mind is concerting measures for a new undertaking.... | |
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OUCH is the emptiness of human enjoyment, that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust; and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to every other course of... 
