 ... mind ; which in his case, as in the case of all who are distressed with the same malady of imagination, transfers to others its own feelings. Who could suppose it was to introduce a comedy, when Mr. Bensley solemnly began, 'Press'd with the load of...  Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces - Página 297por Samuel Johnson - 1774Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1869 - 404 páginas
...Landlady Mrs. WHITE. Scene, LONDON. PROLOGUE. WRITTEN BY DR. JOHNSON; SPOKEN BY ян. BENSLEY. PRESS'D by the load of life, the weary mind Surveys the general toil of human kind ; With cool submission joins the lab'ring train, And social sorrow loses half its pain :... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1872 - 524 páginas
...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;... | |
 | University of Madras - 1873 - 436 páginas
...ENGLISH PAPER. H. WIGRAM, MA I. Render into good idiomatic prose the following passages : — Pressed by the load of life, the weary mind Surveys the general toil of human kind ; With cool submission joins the lab'ring train, And social sorrow loses half its pain ;... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 810 páginas
...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 teachers of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 602 páginas
...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... | |
 | ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 páginas
...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... | |
 | Alexander Main - 1874 - 482 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1874 - 844 páginas
...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... | |
 | Edward Dutton Cook - 1876 - 346 páginas
...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1877 - 526 páginas
...Landlady - MRS. WHITE. SCENE— London. PROLOGUE, WRITTEN BY DR. JOHNSON : SPOKEN BY MR. BENSLEY. JRESSED by the load of life, the weary mind Surveys the general toil of human kind ; With cool submission joins the lab'ring train, And social sorrow loses half its pain :... | |
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