 | 1832 - 852 sivua
...myself, what do I perceive, but a poor helpless being, reduced by a blast of wind to weakness and misery? This illness, in which I have suffered something,...confidence and elation ; and made me consider all that I have promised myself, as less certain to be attained or enjoyed. I have endeavoured to form resolutions... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 316 sivua
...? How my present distemper was brought upon me I can give no account, but impute it to some sndden succession of cold to heat ; such as in the common...confidence and elation ; and made me consider all that I have promised myself, as less certain to be attained or enjoyed. I have endeavoured to form resolutions... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 590 sivua
...fallaciousness of hope and the uncertainty of schemes, every day gives soine new proof ; bnt it i- seldom heeded, till something rather felt than seen...something, and feared much more, has depressed my epnfidence and elation ; and made me consider all that I had promised myself, as less certain to be... | |
 | 1836 - 342 sivua
...schemes, every day gives some new proof; but it is seldom heeded tUl something rather felt than neen awakens attention. This illness, in which I have suffered...confidence and elation ; and made me consider all that I have promised myself as less certain to be attained or enjoyed. I have endeavoured to form resolutions... | |
 | Author of The young man's own book - 1841 - 338 sivua
...schemes, every day gives some new proof; bat it is seldom heeded till something rather felt than •een awakens attention. This illness, in which I have suffered...confidence and elation; and made me consider all that I have promised myself* as less certain to be attained or enjoyed. I have endeavoured to form resolutions... | |
 | James Boswell - 1843 - 588 sivua
...Boothby seems to have come to town in the preceding month. — ED.] succession of cold to heat ; such us in the common road of life cannot be avoided, and...myself, as less certain to be attained or enjoyed. 1 have endeavoured to form resolutions of a better life ; but I form them weakly, under the consciousness... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1884 - 538 sivua
...I am again alone. With what meditation shall I amuse this waste hour of darkness and vacuity ? If I turn my thoughts upon myself, what do I perceive but...a better life ; but I form them weakly, under the conscious»ess of an external motive. Not that I conceive a time of sickness, a time improper for recollection... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1892 - 496 sivua
...quotes with approval the third of Johnson's letters to Miss Boothby, says 'that the excellence weakness weakness and misery ? How my present distemper was...confidence and elation; and made me consider all that I have promised myself, as less certain to be attained or enjoyed. I have endeavoured to form resolutions... | |
 | Wayne Wild - 2006 - 294 sivua
...Johnson writes to his friend, Hill Boothy, in 1755: This illness in which I have suffered some thing and feared much more, has depressed my confidence and elation, and made me consider all that I have promised myself as less certain to be attained or enjoyed. I have endeavoured to form resolutions... | |
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I can give no account, but impute it to some sudden succession of cold to heat ; such as in the common road of life cannot be avoided, and against which no precaution can be taken. Of the fallaciousness of hope, and the uncertainty of schemes, every day... 