 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 546 pages
...ignorance; and intemperance, though it may fire the fpirits for an hour, will make life fliort or miferable. Let us confider that youth is of no long duration,...that in maturer age, when the enchantments of fancy fhall ceafe, and phantoms of delight dance no more about us, •we lhall have no comforts but the efteem... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 534 pages
...ignorance; and intemperance, though it may fire the fpirits for an hour, will make life fhort or miferable. Let us confider that youth is of no long duration,...that in maturer age, when the enchantments of fancy fhall ceafe, and phantoms of delight dance no more about us, we fhall have no comforts but the efteem... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 560 pages
...ignorance; and intemperance, though it may fire the fpirits for an hour, will make life fhort or miferable. Let us confider that youth is of no long duration, and that in maturcr age, when the enchantments of fancy {hall ceafe, and phantoms of delight dance no more about... | |
 | English fiction - 1788 - 778 pages
...intemperance, 1 though it may fire the fpirits fur an • hour, will make life ihort or mifera' ble. Let us confider that youth is of ' no long duration, and that in maturer • ige, when the enchantments of fancy ' (hall ceafe, and phantoms of delight ' dance no moreabout... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1790 - 318 pages
...; and intemperance, though it may fire the fpirits for an hour, will make life fhort or miferabJe. Let us confider that youth is of no long duration,...that in maturer age, when the enchantments of fancy fhall ceafe, and phantoms of delight dance no more about us, we fhall have no comforts but the efteem... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 586 pages
...and intemperance, though it may fire the fpirits for an hour, will make life fhort or miferable. . Let us confider that youth is of no long duration,...that in maturer age, when the enchantments of fancy :fhall ceafe, ^nd phantoms of delight dance no more about us, *»e fhall have no comforts but the efteem... | |
 | Mr. Addison - Anecdotes - 1795 - 608 pages
...his evening of life will be embittered by univerfal contempt. TOUT H. YOUTH is of long duration; and in maturer age, when the enchantments of fancy (hall ceafe, and phantoms of delight dance no more about us, we mall have no comforts but the efteem of wife men, and the means of doing... | |
 | English instructor - English literature - 1801 - 272 pages
...though it may fire the spirits » for an hour , will make life short or mi» serable. Let us consider that youth is of » no long duration , and that in maturer age , 94 THE ENGLISH INSTRUCTOR. » when the enchantments of fancy shall » cease , and phantoms of delight... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 pages
...intemperance, though it may fire the spirits for an hour, will make life short or miserable. Let us consider that youth is of no long duration, and that in maturer age, when the enchantments of fancy shall cease, and Phantoms of delight dance no more about us, we shall have no comforts but the esteem... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...intemperance, though it may fire the spirits for an hour, will make life short or miserable. Let us consider that youth is of no long duration, and that in maturer age, when the enchantments of fancy shall cease, and phantoms of delight dance no more about us, we shall have no comforts but the esteem... | |
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Let us consider that youth is of no long duration, and that in maturer age, when the enchantments of fancy shall cease, and Phantoms of delight dance no more about us, we shall have no comforts but the esteem of wise men, and the means of doing Good. 
