 | Leslie Stephen - 1896 - 284 páginas
...luxury". General Oglethorpe quoted this passage, in an argument about luxury, to Johnson, and added, " let us have that kind of luxury, sir, if you will ". Johnson himself put down all this declamation as part of the cant from which we ought to clear our minds. No... | |
 | 1894 - 880 páginas
...Highlander. The Numidian, he says, rests his head upon a rock at night, and if next day he chances to find a new repast or an untasted spring " blesses his stars and calls it luxury. ' ' General Oglethorpe quoted this passage in an argument about luxury, to Johnson,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 546 páginas
...thirst, Toils all the day, and at the approach of night, On the first friendly bank he throws him down, Or rests his head upon a rock till morn ; And if the...new repast, or an untasted spring, Blesses his stars 1 and thinks it luxury ! ' Let us have that kind of luxury, Sir, if you will." JOHNSON. " But hold,... | |
 | Harriet Cornelia Cooper - 1904 - 266 páginas
...thirst, Toils all the day, and at the approach of night On the first friendly bank he throws him down, Or rests his head upon a rock till morn ; And if the...Let us have that kind of luxury, sir, if you will." The Highlanders at Darien had already built a fort and planted four cannon; also a guardhouse, a store,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 páginas
...thirst, Toils all the day, and at the approach of night, On the first friendly bank he throws him down, Or rests it's luxury." et us have that kind of luxury, Sir, if you will.' JOHNSON. Jut hold, Sir ; to be merely... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 726 páginas
...following day he chance to find A new repast, or an untasted spring, Blesses his stars, and thinks it's luxury." Let us have that kind of luxury, Sir, if...Sir ; to be merely satisfied is not enough. It is iri refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage. A great part of our industry,... | |
 | George Edward Ellis - 1904 - 346 páginas
...thirst; Toils all the day, and, at the approach of night, On the first friendly bank he throws him down, Or rests his head upon a rock till morn ; And if,...following day, he chance to find A new repast, or yet untasted spring, Blesses his stars, and thinks it luxury." ' " This is interesting, because it... | |
 | Algernon Graves - 1906 - 536 páginas
...725 Reculver church, near Margate. 1814. 2 A summer Evening, with shepherds refreshing at a brook. "And if the following day he chance to find a new repast, etc." — Addison. 1815. 85 The flotilla on the Serpentine river, as seen from the bridge in Kensington... | |
 | James Boswell - 1907 - 730 páginas
...thirst, Tpils all the day, and at the approach of night, On the first friendly bank he throws him down, Or rests his head upon a rock till morn ; And if the...untasted spring, Blesses his stars, and thinks it luxury.1 Let us have that kind of luxury, Sir, if you will." JOHNSON. " But hold, Sir ; to be merely... | |
 | Emory Speer - 1909 - 298 páginas
...thirst, Toils all the day, and at the approach of night, On the first friendly bank he throws him down, Or rests his head upon a rock till morn; And if the...Let us have that kind of luxury, sir, if you will." Oglethorpe believed in what we term "The simple life." He returned to England, taking with him Tomochichi,... | |
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Then rises fresh, pursues his wonted game, And if the following day he chance to find A new repast, or an untasted spring, Blesses his stars, and thinks it luxury. 
