 | Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 514 pages
...ground which ha* been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man и little to be envied, whoso patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of IOIUL — JOHNSON. Note 10, page 3, col. 2. And watch and weep in Eloiia'a... | |
 | Great Britain - 1830 - 716 pages
...with the words of our great moralist, "That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gam force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." TEMPLARIDS. Mn. URBAN, Nov. S. "llflTH great deference to ELI. (7.... | |
 | Law - 1831 - 446 pages
...his tyrants. I shall conclude my present observations with the words of our great moralist; " That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would...the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lonn." Feb. 9. TEMPLAHIUS. LORD EnSEINE AT НOI.RHЛМ. " I had frequently... | |
 | English essays - 1831 - 722 pages
...Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue." The house, which the prnius and industry ul" Mrs. Siddons enabled her to purchase, was bought by Mr. Gowan... | |
 | Royal Australian Historical Society - Australia - 1925 - 452 pages
...from me, and far from my friends be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force on the plains of Marathon, or... | |
 | Alice O. Howell - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1988 - 220 pages
...foot on their island. But the spirit of Columba never left the place, and Johnson was to remark: "That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would...the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." We walked pensively southward and then turned west along the road... | |
 | Kristina Straub - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 260 pages
...Far from me and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon,... | |
 | Leopold Damrosch - English prose literature - 1989 - 276 pages
...Far from me and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon,... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - Fiction - 1993 - 390 pages
...Druidical origin. It is in reference to all these remains of ancient religion that Johnson exclaims, 'That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plains of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer amid the ruins of lona.' In the 'Lord of the... | |
 | Greg Clingham - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 290 pages
...indifferent and unmoved over any ground that has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would...the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona? (p. 148) With its references to the past and the classics, this writing... | |
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Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the... 
