I can now excuse all his foibles; impute them to age, and to distress of circumstances: the last of these considerations wrings my very soul to think on. For a man of high spirit conscious of having (at least in one production) generally pleased the world,... Black's Picturesque Guide to Warwickshire ... - Pàgina 41per Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1857 - 137 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 430 pàgines
...and to distress of circumstances : the last of these considerations wrings my very soul to think on. For a man of high spirit, conscious of having (at...body, in order to get rid of the pains of the mind, is a misery." — He died July 19, 1742, and was buried at Wotton, near Henley on Arden. His distresses... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1821 - 434 pàgines
...disti.iBs- ' bf circumstances : the last of 281 these considerations wrings my very soul to think on. For a man of high spirit, conscious of having (at...in every sense ; to be forced to drink himself into paias of 4ha bcvta/in* order to get rid of the pains of the mind, is a* misery." — He died July 19,... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 346 pàgines
...and to distress of circumstances: the last of these considerations wrings my very soul to think on. For a man of high spirit, conscious of having (at...body, in order to get rid of the pains of the mind, is a misery." He died July 19, 1742, and was buried at Wotton, near Henley on Arden. His distresses need... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 452 pàgines
...and to distress of circumstances : the last of these considerations wrings my very soul to think on. For a man of high spirit, conscious of having (at...body, in order to get rid of the pains of the mind, is a misery." He died July 19, 1742, and was buried at Wotton, near Henley on Arden. His distresses need... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 446 pàgines
...and to distress of circumstances : the last of these considerations wrings my very soul to think on. For a man of high spirit, conscious of having (at...body, in order to get rid of the pains of the mind, is a misery." He died July 19, 1742, and was buried at Wotton, near Henley on Arden. His distresses need... | |
| 1832 - 698 pàgines
...and a sealed volume to the many ? Shenstone informs as that Somerville', author of The Chase, "was forced to drink himself into pains of the body, in order to get rid of pains on the mind ;" for the same purpose did Pope dip deep into libations somewhat stronger than the... | |
| James Boaden - 1824 - 246 pàgines
...and to distress of circumstances : the last of these considerations wrings my very soul to think on. For a man of high spirit, conscious of having (at...in order to get rid of the pains of the mind — is a misery which I can well conceive, because I may, without vanity, esteem myself his equal in point... | |
| James Boaden - 1824 - 178 pàgines
...and to distress of circumstances: the last of these considerations wring's my very soul to think on. For a man of high spirit, conscious of having (at...in order to get rid of the pains of the mind —is a misery which I can well conceive, because I may, without vanity, esteem myself his equal in point... | |
| James Boaden - 1824 - 240 pàgines
...considerations wrings my very soul to think on. For a man of high spirit, conscious of having (at leastj in one production) generally pleased the world, to...in order to get rid of the pains of the mind — is a misery which I can well conceive, because I may, without vanity, esteem myself his equal in point... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1824 - 468 pàgines
...has preserved his feelings and his irresolutions. Reflecting on the death of Somerville, he writes, " To be forced to drink himself into pains of the body, in order to get rid of the pains of the mind, is a misery which I can well conceive, because I may, without vanity, esteem myself his equal in point... | |
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