 | Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1799 - 442 pages
...to give up your refined fenfe of happinefs, at others ; but, when your mind has been long haraflfed by viciffitude, you will be content to reft, and you...that, though I would guard you againft the dangers offenfibility, I am not an advocate for apathy. At your age I fhould have faid that is a vice more... | |
 | 1820 - 344 pages
...perceive that the phantom of happiness is exchanged for the substance ; for happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult : it is of a temperate and uniform nature, and can no more exist in a heart that is continually alive to minute circunu stances, than in one that is dead to feeling.... | |
 | Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1824 - 820 pages
...perceive that the phantom of happiness is exchanged for the substance; for happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult : it is of a temperate and uniform nature ; and can no more exist in a heart that is continually alive to minute circumstances, than in one that is dead to feeling.... | |
 | Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1826 - 836 pages
...perceive that the phantom of happiness is exchanged for the substance ; for happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult : it is of .a temperate and uniform nature, and can no more exist in a heart that is continually Jive to minute circumstances, than in one that is dead to feeling.... | |
 | Léonie Villard - 1924 - 266 pages
...victim of our feelings, unless we can in some degree command them . . . for happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult ; it is of a temperate and uniform nature ; and can no more exist in a heart that is continually alive to minute circumstances than in one that is dead to feeling.... | |
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... in a state of peace, not of tumult : it is of a temperate and uniform nature, and can no more exist in a heart that is continually alive to minute circumstances, than in one that is dead to feeling. 