Low spirits are my true and faithful companions; they get up with me, go to bed with me, make journeys and returns as I do; nay, and pay visits, and will even affect to be jocose, and force a feeble laugh with me; but most commonly we sit alone together,... The Quarterly Review - Էջ 9խմբագրել է - 1854Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
| Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 էջ
...my true and faithful companions; they get up with me, go to bed with me, make journeys and returns as I do; nay, and pay visits, and will even affect...and are the prettiest insipid company in the world. However, when you come, I believe they must undergo the fate of all humble companions, and be discarded.... | |
| Elegant epistles - 1812 - 320 էջ
...my true and faithful companions ; they get up with me, go to bed with me, make journeys and returns as I do ; nay, and pay visits, and will even affect...and are the prettiest insipid company in the world. However, when you come, I beheve they must undergo the fate of all humble companions, and be discarded.... | |
| John Evans - 1817 - 610 էջ
...divine strains of poesy. To his friend, West, however, he makes this sad confession : — " Low spirits are my true and faithful companions ; they get up...and are the prettiest insipid company in the world !" Under these sombrous feelings, even at this early period of life, we cease to wonder at the sentiments... | |
| 1821 - 394 էջ
...my true and faithful companions ; they get up with me, go to bed with me, make journeys and returns as I do ; nay, and pay visits, and will even affect...and are the prettiest insipid company in the world. However, when you come, I believe th«y must undergo the fate of all humble companions, and be discarded.... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1820 - 492 էջ
...my true and faithful companions; they get up with me, go "to bed with me, make journeys and returns as I do; nay, and pay visits, and will even affect...and are the prettiest insipid company in the world. However, when you come, I believe they must undergo the fate of all humble compa^ nions, and be discarded.... | |
| Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1820 - 548 էջ
...my true and faithful companions; they get up with me, go to bed with me, make journeys and returns as I do; nay, and pay visits, and will even affect...and are the prettiest insipid company in the world. However, when you come, I believe they must undergo the fate of all humble companions, and be discarded.... | |
| Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1827 - 468 էջ
...my true and faithful companions ; they get up with me, go to bed with me, make journeys and returns as I do ; nay, and pay visits, and will even affect...and are the prettiest insipid company in the world. However, when you come, I believe they must undergo the fate of all humble companions, and be discarded.... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1835 - 342 էջ
...my true and faithful companions ; they get up with me, go to bed with me, make journeys and returns as I do ; nay, and pay visits, and will even affect...and are the prettiest insipid company in the world. However, when you come, I believe they must undergo the fate of all humble companions, and be discarded.... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1854 - 608 էջ
...neither something nor nothing gives me any pleasure." '• Low spirits," he says a little later to the same correspondent, "are my true and faithful companions...himself quite unequal to it, and was so incapable of sympathizing with its ordinary pleasures, that kindness, he told Walpole, was almost the only idea... | |
| 1854 - 544 էջ
...true and faithful companions ; they get up with me, and go to bed with me ; make journeys and returns as I do ; nay, and pay visits, and will even affect...and are the prettiest insipid company in the world.' ' My health I cannot complain of, but as to my spirits, they are always many degrees below changeable... | |
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