 | 1761 - 308 pages
...who does not believe that he may yet live another year ; and there is nonewho does not, upon the fame principle, hope another year for his parent or his...friend ; but the fallacy will be in time detected ; the laft year, the laft day muft come. It has come and is paft. The life which made my own life pleafant... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 432 pages
...does not believe that he may yet live another year ; and there is none who does not, upon the fame principle, hope another year for his parent or his...friend : but the fallacy will be in time detected ; the laft year, the lad day muft come. It has come, and is paft. The life which made my own life pleafant... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 442 pages
...who does not believe that he may yet live another year; and there is none who does not, upon the fame principle, hope another year for his parent or his...friend : but the fallacy will be in time detected ; the laft year, the laft day muft come. It has come, and is paft. The life which made my own life pleafant... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 430 pages
...does not believe that he may yet live another year ; and there is none who does not, upoiv the fame principle, hope another year for his parent or his...friend : but the fallacy will be in time detected; the laft year, the hft day muft come. It has come, and is paft. The life which made my own life pleafant... | |
 | Freemasonry - 1794 - 518 pages
...'who does not believe that he may yet live another year ; and there is none who does not, upon the same principle, hope another year for his parent or...be in time detected ; the last year, the last day, will come ; it has come, and is past. — " The life which made my own life f< pleasant is at an end,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...Works, viii. 28 1 . In The Idler of January 27, 1759 (No. 41), Johnson shews his grief for his loss. ' The last year, the last day must come. It has come,...and the gates of death are shut upon my prospects. . . . Such is the condition of our present existence that life must one time lose its associations,... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...Works, viii. 281. In The Idler of January 27, 1759 (No. 41), Johnson shews his grief for his loss. ' The last year, the last day must come. It has come,...and the gates of death are shut upon my prospects. . . . Such is the condition of our present existence that life must one time lose its associations,... | |
 | English literature - 1801 - 536 pages
...does not believe that he may yet live another year, and there is Done who does not, upon the lam« principle, hope another year for his parent or his...friend ; but the fallacy will be in time detected ; the lalt year, the hit day, will come : it has come, *nd is paît — ' The life which made my own life... | |
 | William Mudford - 1802 - 166 pages
...probably written under the influence of his mother's death, which happened about this time. He says, " the life which made my own life pleasant is at an end, and the gates of death; >ai;e, shut upon my prospects." ) ' 'There. ,i?'.< -an expressive sensibility in the following quotation,... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 196 pages
...Tully, who does not believe that he may yet live another year ; and there is none who does not, upon the same principle, hope another year for his parent or...at an end, and the gates of death are shut upon my pi«spects. The loss of a friend upon whom the heart was fixed, to whom every wish and endeavour tended,'... | |
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The life which made my own life pleasant is at an end, and the gates of death are shut upon my prospects. 
