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" I am alone. I have none to meet my enemies in the gate. Indeed, my Lord, I greatly deceive myself, if in this hard season I would give a peck of refuse wheat for all that is called fame and honour in the world. "
The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir - Page 205
by Edmund Burke - 1835
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A Memoir of the Political Life of the Right Honourable Edmund ..., Volume 2

George Croly - 1840 - 300 pages
...repented in dust and ashes ; but even so, I do not find him blamed for reprehending those ill-natured neighbours of his, who visited his dunghill to read...alone, I have none to meet my enemies in the gate. * * * I live in an inverted order. They who ought to have succeeded me have gone before me. They who...
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The seven ages of human life. Old age

Seven ages - 1842 - 154 pages
...find him blamed for reprehending, and with a considerable degree of verbal asperity, those ill-natured neighbours of his, who visited his dunghill to read...Indeed, my lord, I greatly deceive myself, if, in this hard season, I would give a peck of refuse wheat for all that is called fame and honour in the world....
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A Practical System of Rhetoric, Or, The Principles and Rules of Style ...

Samuel Phillips Newman - 1842 - 326 pages
...blamed for reprehending, and with a considerable degree of verbal asperity, those ill-natured neighbors of his, who visited his dunghill to read moral, political,...and economical lectures on his misery. I am alone. .1 have none to meet my enemies in the gate. Indeed, my lord, 1 greatly deceive myself, if in this...
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An Essay on Elocution: With Elucidatory Passages from Various Authors

John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 pages
...blamed for reprehending, and with a considerable degree of verbal asperity, those ill-natured neighbors of his, who visited his dunghill, to read moral, political,...Indeed, my lord, I greatly deceive myself, if in this hard season I would give a peck of refuse wheat for all that is called fame and honor in the world....
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A Practical System of Rhetoric: Or, The Principles and Rules of Style ...

Samuel Phillips Newman - 1843 - 326 pages
...reprehending, and with a considerable degree of verbal asperity, those ill-natured neighbors of hs, who visited his dunghill to read moral, political,...Indeed, my lord, I greatly deceive myself, if in this hard season I would give a peck of refuse wheat for all that is called fame and honor in the world....
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A Practical System of Rhetoric; or the principles and rules of style ...

Samuel P. NEWMAN - 1843 - 322 pages
...considerable degree of verbal asperity, those ill-natured neighbors of his, who visited his dunghill (o read moral, political, and economical lectures on...Indeed, my lord, I greatly deceive myself, if in this hard season I would give a peck of refuse wheat for all that is called fame and honor in the world....
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Cyclopædia of English literature, Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...for reprehending, and with a considerable degree of verbal asperity, those ill-natured neighbour» . hard season I would give a peck of refuse wheat for all that is called fame and honour in the world....
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...with a considerable degree of verbal asperity, those ill-natured neighbour« of his who visited hie -eyed myriads from the Baltic coast, The prostrate...grim delight the brood of winter view A brighter day, hard season I would give a peck of refuse wheat for all that is called fame and honour in the world....
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An Essay on Elocution: With Elucidatory Passages from Various Authors : to ...

John Hanbury Dwyer - 1844 - 318 pages
...blamed for reprehending, and with a considerable degree of verbal asperity, those ill-natured neighbors of his, who visited his dunghill, to read moral, political,...to meet my enemies in the gate. Indeed, my lord, I gteatly deceive myself, if in this hard season I would give a peck of refuse wheat for all that is...
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Lives of illustrious ... Irishmen, ed. by J. Wills, Volume 5, Part 2

Irishman - 1844 - 254 pages
..." a desolate old man." A few short extracts from his correspondence, forcibly denote the change. " I am alone — I have none to meet my enemies in the gate'' — " desolate at home, stripped of my boast, my hope, my consolation, my helper, my counsellor, and...
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