Author: Johnson

Cited by

• Susan Ferrier (1)
  • IN: Marriage (1986) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Life consists not of a series of illustratious actions; the greater part of our time passes in compliance with necessities -- in the performance of daily duties -- in the removal of small inconveniences -- in the procurement of petty pleasures; and we are well or ill at ease, as the main stream of life glides on smoothly, or is ruffled by small and frequent interruption.
    FROM: The Gentleman's Magazine, (1826), Article, NULL
• Elizabeth Hamilton (1)
  • IN: Memoirs of the Life of Agrippina: The Wife of Germanicus (1804) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: “History may be said to embody Truth, and prove from Facts the Reasonableneſs of Opinion.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• Robert Charles Dallas (1)
  • IN: Aubrey (1804) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: That misery does not make all virtuous, experience too clearly informs us; but it is no less certain that, of what virtue there is, misery produces the far greater part.
    FROM: Untitled, (None), NULL, UK