 | 1824 - 406 oldal
...others; the harmonious conjunction of many things that will seldom exist together. *' ' What is it that keeps men in continual discontent and agitation...their conceptions, that enjoyment steals away from among their hands, that the wished for comes too late, and nothing reached and acquired produces on... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1824 - 354 oldal
...in others ; the harmonious conjunction of many things that will seldom exist together. " What is it that keeps men in continual discontent and agitation...their conceptions, that enjoyment steals away from among their hands, that the wished-for comes too late, and nothing reached and acquired produces on... | |
 | 1829 - 538 oldal
...others ; the harmonious conjunction of many things that will seldom exist together.' " ' What is it that keeps men in continual discontent and agitation...their conceptions, that enjoyment steals away from among their hands, that the wished for comes too late, and nothing reached and acquired produces on... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1834 - 680 oldal
...superior sort. The I'uet. — ' w i.»t is it that keeps men in continual discontent and agtation? It is, that they cannot make realities correspond...their conceptions, that enjoyment steals away from among their hands, that the wished-for comes too late, and nothing reached and acquired produces on... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1838 - 476 oldal
...himself in others; the harmonious conjunction of many things that will seldom go together. '" What is it that keeps men in continual discontent and agitation...their conceptions, that enjoyment steals away from among their hands, that the wished-for comes too late, and nothing reached and acquired produces on... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 862 oldal
...in others; the harmonious conjunction of many things that will seldom go together. • " What is it that keeps men in continual discontent and agitation...their conceptions, that enjoyment steals away from among their hands, that the wished-for comes too late, and nothing reached and acquired produces on... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1842 - 349 oldal
...in others ; the harmonious conjunction of many things that will seldom exist together. " What is it that keeps men in continual discontent and agitation...their conceptions, that enjoyment steals away from among their hands, that the wishecl-for comes too late, and nothing reached and acquired produces on... | |
 | Hints - 1843 - 344 oldal
...and writings, afford us indubitable proof to the contrary. Listen to Goethe. "What is it," he asks, "that keeps men in continual discontent and agitation...enjoyment steals away from their hands ; that the wished-for comes too late, and nothing reached or acquired produces on the heart the effect which their... | |
 | William Russell - 1844 - 428 oldal
...can the deprivation of them render altogether miserable, the possessor of a clear conscience, and a well constituted mind. The sum of human enjoyment...produces, on the heart, the effect which their longing for it, at a distance, led them to anticipate." EXERCISE xxxix. — THE PAST. — Sprague. Ffom tJte Ode... | |
 | John Wilson - 1844 - 142 oldal
...Kind words cost no more than unkind ones. 2. FIRST WORD AFTER A NOTE OF INTERKOGATION. — What is it that keeps men in continual discontent and agitation...make realities correspond with their conceptions. 3. FIRST WORD AFTER A NOTE OF EXCLAMATION. — . Fair, fair, shall be the flowers that spring over... | |
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What is it that keeps men in continual discontent and agitation ? It is, that they cannot make realities correspond with their conceptions, that enjoyment steals away from... 
