I could only apprehend my felicity ; I was too confused to taste it sincerely. I wandered about, thinking I was happy, and knowing that I was not. I was in the condition of a prisoner in the old Bastile, suddenly let loose after a forty years Museum of Foreign Literature and Science - Página 120editado por - 1825Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Charles Lamb - 1885 - 196 páginas
...that I was not. I was in the condition of a prisoner in the old Bastile, suddenly let loose after a forty years' confinement. I could scarce trust myself...with myself. It was like passing out of Time into Eternity,—for it is a sort of Eternity for a man to have his Time all to himself. It seemed to me... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1885 - 296 páginas
...Merryweather, Bosanquet, and Lacy. Esto ftrpetua I K>fa prisoner in the old Bastile, suddenly let loose after a forty years' confinement. I could scarce trust myself...with myself. It was like passing out of Time into Kternity— for it is a sort of Eternity for a man to have his Time all to himself. It seemed to me... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1890 - 584 páginas
...that I was not. I was in the condition of a prisoner in the old Bastile, suddenly let loose after a forty years' confinement. I could scarce trust myself...— for it is a sort of Eternity for a man to have all his Time to himself. It seemed to me that I had more time on my hands than I could ever manage.... | |
| Herbert Greenhough Smith - 1912 - 840 páginas
...knowing I was not. I was in the condition of a prisoner in the old Bastille suddenly let loose after a forty years' confinement. I could scarce trust myself...had more time on my hands than I could ever manage." Feeling like that, Mr. Bodkin returned to his office day after day, as I have said. But something had... | |
| 1927 - 554 páginas
...that I was not. I was in the condition of a prisoner in the Old Bastile, suddenly let loose after a forty years' confinement. I could scarce trust myself...Eternity for a man to have his Time all to himself." And now on the subject of time, inviting comparison with the letters, let us see the free ego and the... | |
| 1909 - 978 páginas
...in the condition of a prisoner suddenly let loose after a forty years' confinement in the Bastille. I could scarce trust myself with myself. It was like...my hands than I could ever manage. From a poor man, a man poor in time, I was suddenly lifted to a vast revenue. And here let me caution persons grown... | |
| Alice Emma Sauerwein Lord - 1893 - 400 páginas
...that I was not. I was in the condition of a prisoner of the old Bastile ; suddenly let loose after a forty years' confinement. I could scarce trust myself...eternity for a man to have his time all to himself. — CHARLES LAMB. — Superannuated Man. S1x years of uneventful life passed over the Lambs in their... | |
| Henry Coppée - 1895 - 552 páginas
...that I was not. I was in the condition of a prisoner in the old Bastille suddenly let loose after a forty years' confinement. I could scarce trust myself...his Time all to himself. It seemed to me that I had more-Time on my hands than I could ever manage. From a poor man, poor in Time, I was suddenly lifted... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1895 - 360 páginas
...that I was not. I was in the condition of a prisoner in the old Bastile, suddenly let loose after a forty years' confinement. I could scarce trust myself...— for it is a sort of Eternity for a man to have all his Time to himself. It seemed to me that I had more time on my hands than I could ever manage.... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1897 - 228 páginas
...I was not. I was in the con- 20 dition of a prisoner in the old Bastile, suddenly let loose after a forty years' confinement. I could scarce trust myself...have his Time all to himself. It seemed to me that I 25 had more time on my hands than I could ever manage. From a poor man, poor in Time, I was suddenly... | |
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