 | John Gay - 1926 - 758 páginas
...been, like the comet's — eccentric '. Here is a self-revealing passage : I had imbibed early in life a taste of a romantic kind ; — a passion, perhaps...adventurous or perilous nature, might supply the deficiency ... I asked myself, can I contrive a method for jumping upwards instead of downwards ? . . . Alas !... | |
 | John Gay - 1926 - 762 páginas
...been, like the comet's — eccentric '. Here is a self-revealing passage : I had imbibed early in life a taste of a romantic kind ; — a passion, perhaps...adventurous or perilous nature, might supply the deficiency ... I asked myself, can I contrive a method for jumping upwards instead of downwards ? . . . Alas !... | |
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... scribbler, if ever there was one. He begins his recollections by telling the reader that ' he has known no regularity . . . his journey has been, like the comet's — eccentric '. Here is a self-revealing passage : I had imbibed early in life a taste... 