 ... themselves, and there is a great deal of good fellowship in this. They are commonly, next their creditors, most bitter against the lawyers, as men that have had a great stroke in assisting them hither. Mirth here is stupidity or hardheartedness, yet...  Essayes and Characters of a Prison and Prisoners - Pàgina xviper Geffray Minshull - 1821 - 91 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1824 - 462 pàgines
...here is stupidity or hard-heartednesse, yet they faine it sometimes to slip melancholy and keep of themselves from themselves, and the torment of thinking what they have been. Men huddle up their life here as a thing of no use, ant wear it out like an old suit, the faster the... | |
 | Saturday night - 1824 - 968 pàgines
...Mirth here is stupidity, or hard-heartedness ; yet they feign it sometimes to shun melancholy, and keep off themselves from themselves, and the torment of thinking what they have been. Men huddle up their life here as a thing of no use, and wear it out like an old suit, the faster the... | |
 | Richard Carlile - 1825 - 920 pàgines
...nerc is Stupidity or hard heartedness, yet tbey feign it sometimes, to slip melancholy, and keep of themselves from themselves, and the torment of thinking what they have been. Men huddle up their life here as a thing of no use, and wear it oat like an old suit, the faster the... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pàgines
...hither. Mirth here is stupidity or hard-heartedness, yet they fain it sometimes to slip melancholy, and keep off themselves from themselves, and the torment of thinking what they have been. Men huddle up their life here as a thing of no use, and wear it out like an old suit, the faster the... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 pàgines
...hither. Mirth here is stupidity or hard-heartedness, yet they fain it sometimes to slip melancholy, and keep off themselves from themselves, and the torment of thinking what they have been. Men huddle up their life here as a thing of no use, and wear it out like an old suit, the faster the... | |
 | 1829 - 446 pàgines
...thither. Mirth here is stupidity, or hard-heartedness, yet they feign it sometimes to shun melancholy, and keep off themselves from themselves, and the torment of thinking what they have been. Men huddle up their life here as a thing of no use, and wear it out like an old suit, the faster the... | |
 | sir Thomas Overbury - 1865 - 338 pàgines
...Mirth here is stupidity or hardheartedness, yet they feign it sometimes to escape from melancholy, and keep off themselves from themselves, and the torment of thinking what they have been. Men huddle up their life here as a thing of no use, and wear it out like an old suit, the faster the... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1891 - 460 pàgines
...hither. Mirth here is stupidity or hardheartedness, yet they feign it sometimes to slip melancholy, and keep off themselves from themselves, and the torment of thinking what they have been. 1 " A prison is a graue to bury men aliue, and a place wherein a man for halfe a yeares experience... | |
 | John Earle - 1899 - 204 pàgines
...hither. Mirth here is stupidity or hard-heartedness, yet they feign it sometimes to slip melancholy, and keep off themselves from themselves, and the torment of thinking what they have been. Men huddle up their life here as a thing of no use, and wear it out like an old suit, the faster the... | |
 | Gwendolen Murphy - 1925 - 496 pàgines
...hither. Mirth here is stupidity or hardhartednes, yet they faine it sometimes to slip Melancholy & keep off themselves from themselves, and the torment of thinking what they have beene. Men muddle up their life here as a thing of no use, and weare it out like an old suite, the... | |
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