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 - 1909 - 444 páginas
...condition of a prisoner in the old Bastile, suddenly let loose after a forty years confinement. [ 30 could scarce trust myself with myself. It was like...— 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 - 1909 - 366 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 20 Eternity — for it is a sort of Eternity for a man to have his Time all to himself. It seemed to... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1910 - 352 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 20 Eternity — for it is a sort of Eternity for a man to have his Time all to himself. It seemed to... | |
| Claude Moore Fuess - 1914 - 244 páginas
...that I was not. I was in the condition of a prisoner in the Old Bastile,7 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 hi,« Time all to himself. It seemed to me that I had more time on my hands than I could ever manage.... | |
| Oliver Elton - 1920 - 504 páginas
...from the office : 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...seemed to me that I had more time on my hands than 1 could ever manage. From a poor man, poor in Time, I was suddenly lifted up into a vast revenue; I... | |
| Oliver Elton - 1920 - 502 páginas
...from the office : 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... | |
| 1922 - 570 páginas
...condition of a prisoner in the old Bastile, suddenly let loose after a forty years' confinement. 1 could scarce trust myself with myself. It was like...— 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.... | |
| George William McClelland - 1925 - 1178 páginas
...that I was not. I was in the condition of a prisoner in the Old Bastile, 5 suddenly let loose after a o. Eternity—for it is a sort of Eternity for a man to have his Time all to himself. It seemed to me... | |
| George William McClelland - 1925 - 1180 páginas
...that I was not. I was in the condition of a prisoner in the Old Bastile,5 suddenly let loose after a eorge pass»ng out of Time into Eternity — for it is a sort of Eternity for a man to have his Time all... | |
| Ronald Blythe - 2005 - 324 páginas
...overwhelmed' and he wanders about idly 'thinking I was happy and knowing that I was not' and realizes that 'I had more time on my hands than I could ever manage.' He warns others of his fate and tells them not to retire all at once as the strict switch from a work... | |
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