 | 1825 - 668 páginas
...source of misery ; perhaps so, but still it was, and is one ; and others have been plunged into as defp an affliction by causes apparently more trivial. "...did it appear to me, that I seriously proposed to my wile an abandonment of the legacy upon such grievous terms, extolling our present happiness, and urging... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1832 - 284 páginas
...unexpectedly, and made the nominal representative of a vile Hoxton dealer in argillaceous parallelograms—the thought was intolerable. Too well was I aware that...proposed to my wife an abandonment of the legacy upon such grievous terms, extolling our present happiness, and urging the sufficiency of our means for all... | |
 | James Henry Potts - 1889 - 806 páginas
...possible quantity of poison from every circumstance of life. Would any one believe that I have often been wretched, because for the last twenty years I have never been able to sneeze three times together." To see everything on the dark side, to fear everything, to imagine all sorts of disorders, was Walderstein's... | |
 | 1836 - 328 páginas
...dreams. The faces of my friends danced before my imagination, so completely mantled over and nickering with ridicule, that there was not room to stick a...proposed to my wife an abandonment of the legacy upon such grievous terms, extolling our present happiness, and urging the sufficiency of our means for all... | |
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Would any one believe," says the learned Walderstein in his Diary, ' ; that I have been often wretched, because for the last twenty years I have never been able to sneeze three times together ?" How cheerfully would I consent never to sneeze again for... 