 Ignorance, or the want of knowledge and literature, the appointed lot of all born to poverty and the drudgeries of life, is the only opiate capable of infusing that insensibility, which can enable them to endure the miseries of the one, and the fatigues...  The Works of Soame Jenyns,esq. ... - Page 49by Soame Jenyns, Charles Nalson Cole - 1793Full view - About this book
 | Soame Jenyns - Good and evil - 1770 - 474 pages
...bccatrie imperceptible ; and I doubt not but there is fome truth in that rant of a mad Poet^ that there tt a pleafure in being mad, which none but Madmen know....drudgeries of life, is the only opiate capable of infufjng that infenfibility which can enable them to endure the miferies of the one, and the fatigues... | |
 | Soame Jenyns - Good and evil - 1770 - 468 pages
...gour. gour. Folly cannot be very grievous, becaufe imperceptible ; and I doubt not but there is forne truth in that rant of a mad Poet, that there is a...knowledge and literature, the appointed lot of all born topoverty, and the drudgeries of life, is the only opiate capable of infufing that infenfibility which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1774 - 392 pages
...and Vigour, folly cannot be very grievous, becaufe imperceptible ; and I doubt not but there is fome Truth in that Rant of a mad Poet, that there is a...mad, which none but Madmen know. Ignorance, or the < Wan* * Want of Knowledge and Literature, the appoint' ed Lot of all born to Poverty, and the Drudgeries... | |
 | 1774 - 390 pages
...grievous, becaufe imperceptible ; and I doubt not ' but there is fome Truth in that Rant of a mad f Poet, that there is a Pleafure in being mad, which . ' none but Madmen know. Ignotuncc, or the / Want of Knowledge and Literature, the appoint? .' ed Lot of all born to Poverty,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1774 - 428 pages
...but there is ibme Trutn in that Rant of a mad ,f Poet, that there is a Pleafure in being mad, which but Madmen know. Ignorance, or the * Want of Knowledge and Literature, the ' ed Lot of all born to Poverty, and the Drudgeries .' of Life, is the only Opiate capable of infufing... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 pages
...vigour. Folly cannot be very " grievous, becaufe imperceptible ; and I doubt not f but there is fome truth in that rant of a mad ** poet, that there is...of " life, is the only opiate capable of infufing tha£ c? infenfibility which can enable them to endure the *? miferies of the one, and the fatigues... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 550 pages
...grievous, becaufe imperceptible } and I doubt not " but fc but there is fpme truth in that fant of a ma4 f poet, that there is a pleafure in being mad, which....of " life, is the only opiate capable of infufing thap " infenfibility which can enable them to endure the cc miferies of th,e one, and the fatigues... | |
 | Charles Henry Wilson - 1792 - 286 pages
...cannot be properly called the age of criticifm, is only another word for a madman. AUTHOR. Even fo, " there is a pleafure in being mad which none but madmen know :" we are in a free country, cannot a man amufe himfelf with his pen as often as he pleafes ? and what... | |
 | Mr. Addison - Anecdotes - 1797 - 642 pages
...circumftances. Folly cannot be very grievous, becaufe imperceptible; and I doubt not but there is fome truth in that rant of a mad poet, that there is a...but mad-men know. Ignorance or the want of knowledge of literature, the appointed lot of all born to poverty, and the drudgeries of life, is the only opiate... | |
 | Joseph Addison - Anecdotes - 1797 - 610 pages
...circumftances. Folly cannot be very grievous, beeaufe imperceptible; and I doubt not but there is fome trurh in that rant of a mad poet, that there is a pleafure...but mad-men know. Ignorance or the want of knowledge of literature, the appointed lot of all born to poverty, and the drudgeries of life, is the only opiate... | |
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