 | Laurence Sterne - British - 1802 - 284 pages
...with long expectation and confinement, and felt what kind of sickness of the heart it was which arises from hope deferred. Upon looking nearer I saw him...and I was forced to go on with another part of the portrait. He was sitting upon the ground upon a little straw, in the furthest corner of his dungeon,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Logic - 1802 - 610 pages
...feverifti: in thirty years the " weftem breeze had not once fanned his blood : he " had feen no fun, no moon, in all that time, nor had " the voice of friend or kinfman breathed through ** his lattice. His children— —But here my heart ** began 512 ELEMENTS... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1803 - 296 pages
...and feverifh : in thirty years the weftern breeze had not once fanned his blood he had feen no fun, no moon, in all that time — nor had the voice of friend or kinfman breathed through his lattice : — His children — Hut here my heart began to bleed and I... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...confinement , and felt what kind of sickness of the heart it was whic/i arises from hope dei'erred. Upon looking nearer* I saw him pale and feverish ;...in all that time — nor had the voice of friend or kius*man breathed through bis lattice. His chikU "o ren — But here my heart began to bleed — and... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1805 - 430 pages
...with long expectation and confinement, and felt what kind of sickness of the heart it was which arises from hope deferred. Upon looking nearer, I saw him...and I was forced to go on with another part of the portrait. He was sitting upon the ground upon a little straw, in the farthest corner of his dungeon,... | |
 | Sydney Melmoth - English prose literature - 1805 - 368 pages
...with long expectation and confinement, and felt what kind of sickness of the heart it was which arises from hope deferred. Upon looking nearer, I saw him...and I was forced to go on with another part of the portrait. He was sitting upon the ground, upon a little straw, in the farthest corner of his dungeon,... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - American literature - 1805 - 500 pages
...view ot nature was obstructed by the narrow and blackened walls of a loathsome and detested cell. " He had seen no sun, no moon, in all that time, nor had the western breeze once fanned his blood." Language could only employ itself in curses oa TISIT TO TBK... | |
 | Solomon Hodgson - Conduct of life - 1806 - 362 pages
...weftern breeze had not once fanned his blood — he had feen no fun, no moon, in all that time, nor lattice. His children — But here my heart began...and I was forced to go on with another part of the portrait. He was fitting upon the ground, upon a little ftraw, in the fartheft corner of his dungeon,... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1806 - 360 pages
...blood—he had feen no fan, no moon, in all that time, nor lattice. His children—l>ut here my heart-began to bleed, and I was forced to go on with another part of the portrait. He was fitting upon the ground, upon a little ftraw, in the fartheft corner of his dungeon,... | |
 | Flowers of literature - 1807 - 626 pages
...smile, " Inclining o'er the eoach of woe." ACCOUNT OF THE CELEBRATED BARON TRENCK. " He had seen no man, no moon in all that time— nor had the voice of friend or kinsman breathed through his lattice." STERNE. BARON DE TRENCK, at the time of the first war between the king of Prussia and the house of... | |
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I beheld his body half wasted away with long expectation and confinement, and felt what kind of sickness of the heart it was which arises from hope deferred. Upon looking nearer, I saw him pale and feverish; in thirty years the western breeze had not... 
