 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1831 - 620 pàgines
...arrived at manhood, I had attained the zenith of fame. Pleasure I have known under every form in which it can present itself to mortals. I have travelled,...dregs away. But the apprehension of two things now haunts my mind. I picture myself slowly expiring on a bed of torture, or terminating my days like Swift,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1831 - 620 pàgines
...arrived at manhood, I had attained the zenith of fame. Pleasure I have known under every form in which it can present itself to mortals. I have travelled,...dregs away. But the apprehension of two things now haunts my mind. I picture myself slowly expiring on a bed of torture, or terminating my days like Swift,... | |
 | 1831 - 624 pàgines
...arrived at manhood, I had attained the zenith of fame. Pleasure I have known under every form in which it can present itself to mortals. I have travelled,...dregs away. But the apprehension of two things now haunts my mind. I picture myself slowly expiring on a bed of torture, or terminating my days like Swift,... | |
 | 1834 - 784 pàgines
...Millingen's book (the surgeon of the Suliote brigade) we find these words attributed to the ch'Me. : " I picture myself slowly expiring on a bed of torture,...terminating my days, like Swift, a grinning idiot."* Strange to say, few men have been more exempt from the usual exciting causes of insanity than Swift.... | |
 | Francis Mahony - 1836 - 696 pàgines
...Millingen's book (the surgeon of the Suliote brigade) we find these words attributed to the Childe : " I picture myself slowly expiring on a bed of torture,...terminating my days, like Swift, a grinning idiot." — Anecdotes of Byron's Illness and Death, by JULIUS MILLINGEN, p. 120. — London. Strange to say,... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1847 - 400 pàgines
...arrived at manhood, I had attained the zenith of fame. Pleasure I have known under every form in which it can present itself to mortals. I have travelled,...cup of life ; it is time to throw the dregs away." The physician adds this melancholy paragraph: — " It is with infinite regret I must state, that although... | |
 | Francis Sylvester Mahony - 1860 - 650 pàgines
...Millingen's book (the Surgeon of the Suliote brigade) we find these words attributed to the Childe : " I picture myself slowly expiring on a bed of torture,...terminating my days, •like Swift, a grinning idiot." — Anecdotes of Byron's Illness and Death, by JULIUS MILLINGEN, p. 120. — London. Strange to say,... | |
 | Francis Mahony - 1860 - 654 pàgines
...Surgeon of the Suliote brigade) we lind these words attributed to the Childe : " I picture myself glowlv expiring on a bed of torture, or terminating my days, like Swift, a grinning idiot." — Anecdotes of Byron's Illness and Death, by JULIUS MILLINOEX, p. 120. — London. Strange to say,... | |
 | John Angell James - 1862 - 486 pàgines
...the cup of life: it is time to throw away the dregs. But the apprehension of two things now haunts my mind : I picture myself slowly expiring on a bed...Swift, a grinning idiot! Would to heaven the day were come in which, rushing sword in hand upon a body of Turks,* and fighting like one weary of existence,... | |
 | 1872 - 784 pàgines
...I did ; I am, literally speaking, a young old man. Pleasure I have known under every form in which it can present itself to mortals. I have travelled,...have exhausted all the nectar contained in the cup HOW TO OVERCOME AN ENEMY. 3o9 of life ; it is time to throw the dregs away." He had sought his happiness... | |
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Why should I regret it ? can it afford me any pleasure ? have I not enjoyed it to a surfeit ? Few men can live faster than I did. I am, literally speaking, a young old man. 
