 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1925 - 454 páginas
...every tune that I take a pen in the hand ; and therefore whatever comes of it, I must forbear. . . . And so I betake myself to that course, which is almost as much as to see myself into my grave ; for which, and all the discomforts that will accompany my being blind, the good God... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson - 1925 - 392 páginas
...ever: " And so I betake myself to that course which is almost as much as to see myself go into the grave; for which, and all the discomforts that will accompany my being blind, the good God prepare A LIBERAL GENIUS Pepys spent part of a certain winter Sunday, when he had taken physic, composing "... | |
 | Guy Noel Pocock - 1925 - 268 páginas
...the greatest of diarists, had to relinquish his diary on account of failing eyesight, he says, " It is almost as much as to see myself go into my grave." I would say this, too, that except for letter-writing there can be no better practice in selfexpression... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1926 - 920 páginas
...must endeavour to keep a margin in my book open, to add, here and there, a note in short-hand with my own hand. And so I betake myself to that course,...accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me ! SP May 31, 1669. END OF THE DIARY. INDEX. *«* When biographical particulars arc given in the notes... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1927 - 720 páginas
...keep a margin in my book open, THE END OF THE DIARY to add here and there a note in short-hand with my own hand. And so I betake myself to that course,...accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me ! SP May 31, 1669. INDEX IN the space at command it is impossible to attempt completeness ; yet to... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1926 - 652 páginas
...must therefore be contented to set down no more than is fit for them and all the world to know. . . . And so I betake myself to that course, which is almost...as to see myself go into my grave; for which, and for all the discomforts that will accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me!" He did not in... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1926 - 656 páginas
...myself to that course, which is almost as much as to see myself go into my grave; for which, and for all the discomforts that will accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me!" He did not in fact become blind, for fifteen years later he took down in shorthand, at Charles the... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1928 - 914 páginas
...must endeavour to keep a margin in my book open, to add, here and there, a note in short-hand with my own hand. And so I betake myself to that course,...accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me ! SP May 31, 1669. END OF THE DIARY. INDEX. *** When biographical particulars are given in the notes... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1925 - 360 páginas
...lived in and for it, and might well write these solemn words, when he closed that confidant for ever: "And so I betake myself to that course which is almost as much as to see myself go into the grave ; for which, and all the discomforts that will accompany my being blind, the good God prepare... | |
 | Stuart Sherman - 1996 - 352 páginas
...the contours of his enterprise as to end it altogether. The next and final sentence counts the cost: "And so I betake myself to that course which [is] almost as much as to see myself go into my grave" (9.565). Pepys does not make clear whether he here refers to the loss of his sight or to the end of... | |
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I must endeavour to keep a margin in my book open, to add here and there a note in shorthand with my own hand. And so I betake myself to that course, which is almost as much as to see myself go into my grave : for which, and all the discomforts that will... 
