| Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 574 pages
...able, he fetched a deep sigh, and was afterward silent. A few months after this, upon his housekeeper's removing a knife, as he was going to catch at it, he shrugged up his shoulders, and said, " I am what I am ;" and, in about six minutes, repeated the same... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 676 pages
...friend should spend the evening with him, and which was as much as to say " you will ruin me in wine,1' Soon after he again endeavoured, with a good deal of pain, to find words; but at last, after many efforts, not being able, he fetched a deep sigh, and was afterwards silent. A few... | |
| Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 686 pages
...friend should spend the evening with him, and which was as much as to say " you will ruin me in wine.'' Soon after he again endeavoured, with a good deal of pain, to find words ; but at last, after many efforts, not being able, he fetched a deep sigh, and was afterwards silent. A few... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 560 pages
...friend should spend the evening with him, and which was as much as to say ' you will ruin me in wine.' Soon after he again endeavoured, with a good deal of pain, to find words ; but at last, after many efforts, not being able, he fetched a deepsigh, and was afterwards silent. A few months... | |
| Walter Scott - 1827 - 550 pages
...friend should spend the evening with him, and which was as much as to say ' you will ruin me in wine.' Soon after he again endeavoured, with a good deal of pain, to find words ; hut at last, after many efforts, not heing ahle, he fetched a deepsigh, and was afterwards silent.... | |
| Walter Scott - 1829 - 380 pages
...friend should spend the evening with him, and which was as much as to say 'you will ruin me in wine.' Soon after he again endeavoured, with a good deal of pain, to find words; but at last, after many efforts, not being able, he fetched a deep sigh, and was afterwards silent. A few... | |
| Walter Scott - 1834 - 532 pages
...itself in the full glow of national enthusiasm. The interval was forgotten, during which their great 'he again endeavoured, with a good deal of pain, to find words; but at last, after many efforts, not being able, he fetched a deep sigh, and was afterwards silent. A few... | |
| Walter Scott - 1834 - 556 pages
...itself in the full glow of national enthusiasm. The interval was forgotten, during which their great l1e again endeavoured, with a good deal of pain, to find words ; but at last, after many efforts, not being able, he fetched a deep sigh, and was afterwards silent. A few... | |
| William Robert Wilde - 1849 - 206 pages
...remember, was as much as to say, ' you'll ruin me in wine.' I own I was scarce able to bear the sight. Soon after he again endeavoured, with a good deal of pain, to find words to speak to me ; at last, not being able after many efforts, he gave a heavy sigh, and, I think, was... | |
| William Robert Wilde - 1849 - 208 pages
...remember, was as much as to say, ' you'll ruin me in wine.' I own I was scarce able to bear the sight. Soon after he again endeavoured, with a good deal of pain, to find words to speak to me ; at last, not being able after many efforts, he gave a heavy sigh, and, I think, was... | |
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