Praise, said the sage, with a sigh, is to an old man an empty sound. I have neither mother to be delighted with the reputation of her son, nor wife to partake the honours of her husband. The Quarterly Review - Page 27edited by - 1832Full view - About this book
| Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1759 - 184 pages
...which all agree to give you." " Praife, faid the fage, with a figh, is to an old man an empty found. I have neither mother to be delighted with the reputation of her fon, nor wife to partake the honours of her hufbandI have outlived my friends and my rivals, Nothing... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 560 pages
...mother td be delighted with the reputation of her fon, nor wife to partake the honours of her hufband. I have outlived my friends and my rivals. Nothing is now of much importance; for I cannot extend my intereft beyond myfelf. Youth is delighted with applaufe; becaufe it is confidered as the earned of... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 534 pages
...which all agree to give you." " Praife, faid the fage, with a Ggh, is to an olci man an empty found. I have neither mother to be delighted with the reputation of her fon, nor wife to .partake the honours of her hufband. I have outlived my friends and my rivals. Nothing... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 546 pages
...agree to give you." " Praife, " Praife, faid the fage, with a figh, is to an old man an empty found. I have neither mother to be delighted with the reputation of her fon, nor wife to partake the honours of her hufband. I have outlived my friends and my rivals. Nothing... | |
| English fiction - 1788 - 778 pages
...be delighted ' with the reputation of her fon, nor ' wife to partake the honours of her * hulband. I have outlived my friends ' and my rivals. Nothing is now of ' much importance; fur I cannot extend 4 my interdi beyon 1 myftlf. Youth is ' delighted with applaufe, becaufe it is... | |
| Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1790 - 318 pages
...all agree to. give you.?> " Praife," faid the fage, with a figh, " is to an old man an empty found. I have neither mother to be delighted •with the reputation of her fon, nor wife to partake the honours of her hufband. I have outlived my friends and my rivals. Nothing... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 586 pages
...to give you." E e 4 " Praife, " Praife, faid the fage, with a figh, is to an old man an empty found. I have neither mother to be delighted with the reputation of her fon, nor wife to partake the honours of her hufband. I have outlived my friends and my rivals. Nothing... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...it is reflected from another.' In Rasselas (ch. xlv.) he makes a sage say with a sigh : — ' Praise is to an old man an empty sound. I have neither mother...son, nor wife to partake the honours of her husband.' He here says once more what he had already said in his Letter to Lord Chesterfield (ante, p. 303),... | |
| James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...it is reflected from another.' In Rasselas (ch. xlv. ) he makes a sage say with a sigh :— ' Praise is to an old man an empty sound. I have neither mother...son, nor wife to partake the honours of her husband.' He here says once more what he had already said in his Letter to Lord Chesterfield (ante, p. 303),... | |
| Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 462 pages
...which all agree to give you." ** Praife, faid the fage, with a figh, is to an old man an empty found. I have neither mother to be delighted with the reputation of her fon, nor wife to partake the honours of her hufband. I have outlived my friends and my rivals. Nothing... | |
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