...contented to set down no more than is fit for them and all the world to know; or if there be anything, one 333 Finds happiness unblighted, or, if found,...than ourselves, that thus ' We may with patience bear God prepare me! SP THE AGE OF POPE ¿Battijclu prior 1604-1721 TO A CHILD OF QUALITY FIVE YEARS OLD....

...must endeavour to keep a margin in my book open, to add here and there a note in short-hand with rny own hand. And so I betake myself to that course, which...discomforts that will accompany my being blind, the God prepare me! SP THE AGE OF POPE ПЭшЬсш prior 1064-1721 TO A CHILD OF QUALITY FIVE YEARS OLD....

...every time that I take a pen in my hand ; and therefore, whatever comes of it, I must forbear. . , . And so I betake myself to that course, which is almost...much as to see myself go into my grave ; for which, aud all the discomforts that will accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me ! " The late Lord...

...thing, I must endeavour to keep a margin in my book open, to add here and there a note in short-hand 10 with my own hand. And so I betake myself to that course,...discomforts that will accompany my being blind, the God prepare me ! SP JOHN DRYDEN Preface to Dryden and Davenant's " The Tempest " The writing of prefaces...

...more than once, the last paragraph of his diary. " ' And so I betake myself to that course which it is almost as much as to see myself go into my grave...accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me ! ' " Yet Pepys kept his sight all the rest of his life, and regretted, I fancy, more than once, that...

...thing, I must endeavour to keep a margin in my book open, to add here and there a note in short-hand ic with my own hand. And so I betake myself to that course,...discomforts that will accompany my being blind, the God prepare me! SP JOHN DRYDEN Preface to Dryden and Davenant's " The Tempest " ENGLISH LITERATURE...

...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...

...characteristic sentences : Or, if there be anything, which cannot be much, now my amours to Deb. are past, I must endeavour to keep a margin in my book open,...accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me. With these words the great book ends — the diary of one of the godliest and most lecherous of men....

...every time that I take a pen in my hand; and therefore whatever comes of it I must f orbear. . . . And so I betake myself to that course, which is almost...which, and all the discomforts that will accompany my being1 blind, the good God prepare me ! SP We know that Pepys did not become blind, and that he lived...

...only 36 when the partial failure of his eyesight compelled him, to his great regret, to give it up, ' which is almost as much as to see myself go into my grave.' 2 Yet he lived to be 70 years of age, and although for part of his career he 1 On I January, 1660....