 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 - 1864 - 442 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...production) generally pleased the world, to be plagued and 296 SOMERVILE. threatened by wretches that are low in every sense; to be foreed to drink himself into... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1866 - 306 pàgines
...resembled him, remarks indignantly on the grievance of a man of genius being asked to pay his debts, " 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." KEXILWORTH. Isss. — King's Anns, Castle, Bowling-Green, Globe. From Warwick, Leamington,... | |
 | 1874 - 274 pàgines
...resembled him, remarks indignantly on the grievance of a man of genius being asked to pay his debts, " 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." INSS.— King's Arm, Cattle, Bowling-Green, Globe. From Warwick, Leamington, or Coventry,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1875 - 760 pàgines
...and to distressed 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." Somerville died July 19, 1742, and was buried at Wotton, near Henley-on-Arden. His estate... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1881 - 478 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 \ unit v. esteem myself his equal in point... | |
 | Richard Valpy French - 1884 - 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. James Quin the tragedian was a bon vivant. After being engaged at Drury Lane Theatre, a tavern... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1884 - 366 pàgines
...resembled him, remarks indignantly on the grievance of a man of genius being asked to pay his debts, " 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." KENILWORTH. Inns : King's Arms, Castle, Bowling -Green, Globe. From Warwick, Leamington,... | |
 | 1887 - 560 pàgines
...pains, schmerzen in der älteren wie neueren spräche unendlich oft. Wenige beispiele mögen genügen : To be forced to drink himself into pains of the body in order to get rid of the pains of the mind. Shenstone (1741) Elegant Epistles p. 344. From a world of pains and vexations, at best , to join that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1890 - 474 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... | |
 | Cesare Lombroso - 1891 - 402 pàgines
...shames to be beaten in drinking. Shcnstone said of his comrade in poetry, Somerville, that he was " forced to drink himself into pains of the body, in order to get rid of the pains of the mind." Madame de Stael and De Quincey abused opium ; the latter has left a vivid picture of his excesses in... | |
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