 I shall never again be capable of entering into such scenes. Indeed, I am altogether unconcerned at the thoughts of this life. I foresee that poverty and obscurity probably await me, and I am in some measure prepared, and daily preparing to meet them....  The Saturday Magazine - Page 1031833Full view - About this book
 | Allan Cunningham - 1841 - 384 pages
...return you my grateful thanks for the lessons of virtue and piety you have given me, which were but too much neglected at the time of giving them, but...hope> have been remembered ere it is yet too late." This remarkable letter was written in the twenty-second year of his age ; it alludes to the illness... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1844 - 540 pages
...despair of ever making a figure in it. I am not formed for the bustle of the busy, nor the flutter of the gay. I shall never again be capable of entering...hope, have been remembered ere it is yet too late." — vol. ip 99 — 101. Before proceeding to take any particular notice of his poetical compositions,... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1844 - 706 pages
...despair of ever making a figure in it. 1 am not formed for the bustle of the busy, nor the flutter of the gay. I shall never again be capable of entering...hope, have been remembered ere it is yet too late. Present my dutiful respects to my mother, and my compliments to Mr. and Mrs. Muir; and, with wishing... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 336 pages
...this life. I foresee that poverty and obscurity probably await me, and I am in some measure prepared to meet them. I have but just time and paper to return...hope have been remembered ere it is yet too late." This letter is dated December 27, 1781. No one can mistake the cause of his melancholy : obscure toil... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 680 pages
...this life. I foresee that poverty and obscurity probably await me, and I am in some measure prepared to meet them. I have but just time and paper to return...hope have been remembered ere it is yet too late." This letter is dated December 27, 1781. No one can mistake the cause of his melancholy : obscure toil... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 334 pages
...foresee that poverty and obscurity probably await me, and I am in some measure prepared to meet thent. I have but just time and paper to return you my grateful...hope have been remembered ere it is yet too late." This letter is dated December 27, 1781. No one can mistake the cause of his melancholy : obscure toil... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 692 pages
...have but just time ami paper to return you my grateful thanks for the lessons of virtue and piety vou have given me ; which were too much neglected at the...hope, have been remembered ere it is yet too late." — vol. ip 99 — 101. Before proceeding to take any particular notice of his poetical compositions,... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1847 - 704 pages
...lessons of virtue and piety you have given me, which were too much neglected at the time of giving1 them, but which, I hope, have been remembered ere it is yet too late. Present my dutiful respects to my mother, and my compliments to Mr. and Mrs. Muir; and, with wishing... | |
 | Samuel Tyler - 1848 - 228 pages
...not exchange the noble enthusiasm with which they inspire me, for all that this world has to offer. As for this world, I despair of ever making a figure...them, but which I hope have been remembered ere it is too late. Present my dutiful respects to my mother, and my compliments to Mr. and Mrs. Muir ; and with... | |
 | Samuel Tyler - 1848 - 222 pages
...despair of ever making a figure in it. I am not formed for the bustle of the busy, nor the flutter of the gay. I shall never again be capable of entering...them, but which I hope have been remembered ere it is too late. Present my dutiful respects to my mother, and my compliments to Mr. and Mrs. Muir ; and with... | |
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