 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 - 1825 - 750 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 - 1825 - 682 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 - 1826 - 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... | |
 | John Elihu Hall - 1826 - 230 pàgines
...last of these considerations wrings my soul to think on. For a man of high spirit, conscious of having generally pleased the world, to be plagued and threatened..., in order to get rid of the pains of the mind, is a misery." Rabelais tells us a story of one Philpot Placut, who, being brisk and hale, fell dead, as... | |
 | Abraham Wivell - 1827 - 288 pàgines
...and to distress of circumstances: the last of these considerations wrings uiy 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... | |
 | John Holmes - 1828 - 332 pàgines
...pleased the world, to be plagued and ' rid of the pains of the mind, is a misery." Mr. Somerville ' forced to drink himself into pains of the body, in order to get died in 1743, and was chiefly known by his descriptive Poem, Somner's Canterbury, by Battely, (platesj... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1834 - 462 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... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1834 - 456 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... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1835 - 474 pàgines
...preserved his ft- clings 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pàgines
...and to distress of circumstances ; the last of these considerations wrings my very soul to think on. 6eld, but they die nnn.M the bed of honour, rm°7i...has means of destruction more formidable than tin- a misery." He died July 19, 1742, and was buried at Wotton, near Henley on Arden. His distresses need... | |
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