 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1902 - 450 páginas
...imbecility after you have lost the vigor of the passions. Your friends will ask, perhaps, Whither shall this unhappy old man retire? Can he remain in the metropolis, where his life has been so often threatened and his palace so often attacked ? If he returns to Woburn [his country seat],... | |
 | Junius - 1907 - 172 páginas
...imbecility, after you have lost the vigour of the passions. Your friends will ask, perhaps, Whither shall this unhappy old man retire? Can he remain in the metropolis, where his life has been so often threatened, and his palace so often attacked? If he returns to Wooburn, scorn and mockery... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1917 - 440 páginas
...after you have lost the vigour, of the passions. ' ' Your friends will ask, perhaps, Whither shall this unhappy old man retire ? Can he remain in the metropolis, where his life has been so often threatened, and his palace so often attacked ? If he returns to Woburn, scorn and mockery... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1924 - 440 páginas
...imbecility, after you have lost the vigour, of the passions. "Your friends will ask, perhaps, Whither shall this unhappy old man retire ? Can he remain in the metropolis, where his life has been so often threatened, and his palace so often attacked ? If he returns to Woburn, scorn and mockery... | |
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He must create a solitude round his estate if he would avoid the face of reproach and derision. At Plymouth his destruction would be more than probable; at Exeter, inevitable. 
