 | Leslie Stephen - Poets, English - 1902 - 724 pages
...has spread over me," he says in April, 1764, "so that I know not what has become of the last years, and perceive that incidents and intelligence pass over me without leaving any impression." It seems, however, that he was still frequently in difficulties. Letters are preserved showing that... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 146 pages
...self-reproaches. " My indolence," he wrote on Easter eve in 1 764, " has sunk into grosser 30 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 - 1903 - 294 pages
...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 5 has become of the last year." Easter, 1765, came, and found him still in the same state. "My time,"... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1904 - 136 pages
...Easter eve in 1764, "has sunk into grosser sluggishness. A kind of strange oblivion has over- 10 spread 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 - 1903 - 136 pages
...Easter eve in 1764, "has sunk into grosser sluggishness. A kind of strange oblivion has over- 10 spread 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 - 1903 - 152 pages
...Easter eve in 1764, "has sunk into grosser sluggishness. A kind of strange oblivion has over- 10 spread 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 - 1904 - 1590 pages
...except that from the beginning of this year I have, in some measure, forborne excess of strong drink, my }\ 2 ; ' and he earnestly resolves an amendment. It was his custom to observe certain days with a pious... | |
 | John Burroughs - Natural history - 1904 - 336 pages
...except that from the beginning of this year I have in some measure forborne excess of strong drink, my appetites have predominated over my reason. A kind...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 - 1904 - 336 pages
...except that from the beginning of this year I have in some measure forborne excess of strong drink, my appetites have predominated over my reason. A kind...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... | |
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - Literature - 1910 - 330 pages
...except that from the beginning of this year I have in some measure forborne excess of strong drink, my appetites have predominated over my reason. A kind...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. 
