 | James Boswell - 1884 - 742 páginas
...with sensuality ; and, except that from the beginning of this year I have, in some measure, foreborne excess of strong drink, my appetites have predominated...intelligence pass over me without leaving any impression." '*': JET. 55. BOSWELI.'S LIFE OK JOHNSON. 395 It was his custom to observe certain days with a pious... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1889 - 796 páginas
...self-reproaches. "My indolence, " he wrote on Easter Eve in 1 764, "has sunk into grosser sluggishness. A kind of strange oblivion has overspread me, so that I know not what has become of the last year." Easter 1765 came, and found him still in the same state. " My time," he wrote, " has been unprofitably... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 páginas
...except that from the beginning of this year I have, in some measure, forborne excess of strong drinks, my appetites have predominated over my reason. A kind of strange oblivion has overspread me, so • Life of Johnson, p. 425.— BoswELL. t Mr. Garrick was elected ¡n March, 1773.— MALONE. t betters... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1891 - 72 páginas
...selfreproaches. "My indolence," he wrote on Easter-eve in 1764, " has sunk into grosser sluggishness. A kind of strange oblivion has overspread me, so that I know not what has become of the last year." Easter 1765 came, and found him still in the same state. "My time," he wrote, " has been unprofitably... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1891 - 232 páginas
...selfreproaches. "My indolence," he wrote on Easter-eve in 1764, " has sunk into grosser sluggishness. A kind of strange oblivion has overspread me, so that I know not what has become of the last year." Easter 1765 came, and found him still in the same state. "My time," he wrote, "has been unprofitably... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1893 - 546 páginas
...self-reproaches. " My indolence," he wrote on Easter eve in 1764, " has sunk into grosser sluggishness. A kind of strange oblivion has overspread me, so that I know not what has become of the last year." Easter, 1765, came, and found him still in the same state. " My time," he wrote, " has been unprofitably... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1894 - 290 páginas
...selfreproaches. "My indolence," he wrote on Easter eve in 1764, "has sunk into grosser sluggishness. A kind of strange oblivion has overspread me, so that I know not what has become of the last year." Easter 1765 came, and found him still in the same state. " My time," he wrote, " has been unprofitably... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1895 - 290 páginas
...clouded with sensuality, and, except that from the beginning of this year I have in some measure forborne excess of strong drink, my appetites have predominated...that I know not what has become of the last year," etc. This earthiness, these frailties of Johnson through which his pious hopes and resolutions shine... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1895 - 290 páginas
...clouded with sensuality, and, except that from the beginning of this year I have in some measure forborne excess of strong drink, my appetites have predominated...that I know not what has become of the last year," etc. This earthiness, these frailties of Johnson through which his pious hopes and resolutions shine... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1895 - 288 páginas
...clouded with sensuality, and, except that from the beginning of this year I have in some measure forborne excess of strong drink, my appetites have predominated...that I know not what has become of the last year," etc. This earthiness, these frailties of Johnson through which his pious hopes and resolutions shine... | |
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A kind of strange oblivion has overspread me, so that I know not what has become of the last year ; and perceive that incidents and intelligence pass over me, without leaving any impression. 
