... farthings. In proportion as the years both lessen and shorten, I set more count upon their periods, and would fain lay my ineffectual finger upon the spoke of the great wheel. I am not content to pass away "like a weaver's shuttle. A Little of Everything - Página 150por Edward Verrall Lucas - 1912 - 239 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1835 - 606 páginas
...probabilities of my duration, and to grudge at the expenditure of moment?, like miser's farthings. In proportion as the years both lessen and shorten,...metaphors solace me not, nor sweeten the unpalatable draft of mortality. I care not to be carried with the tide, that smoothly bears human life to eternity... | |
| 1835 - 432 páginas
...duration, and to grudge at the expenditure of moments and shortest periods, like misers' farthings. In proportion as the years both lessen and shorten,...pass away "like a weaver's shuttle." Those metaphors splaco me not, nor sweeten the unpalatable draught of mortality. I care not to be carried with the... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1835 - 440 páginas
...duration, and to grudge at the expenditure of moments and shortest periods, like misers' farthings. In proportion as the years both lessen and shorten, I set more count upon their periods, and would faia lay my ineffectual finger upon the spoke of the great wheel. I am not content to pass away like... | |
| 1835 - 610 páginas
...probabilities of my duration, and to grudge at the expenditure of moment?, like miser's farthings. Jn proportion as the years both lessen and shorten, I...metaphors solace me not, nor sweeten the unpalatable draft of mortality. I care not to be carried with the tide, that smoothly hears human life to eternity... | |
| 1838 - 1050 páginas
...expenditure of moments and shortest periods, ike misers' farthings. In proportion as the years joth lessen and shorten, I set more count upon their periods, and would fain lay my ineffectual finger jpon the spoke of the great wheel. I am not content to pass away ' like a weaver's shuttle.' Those... | |
| Catherine Sinclair - 1847 - 400 páginas
...expenditure of moments, like misers' farthings. In proportion as the years both lessen and shorten, I would fain lay my ineffectual finger upon the spoke of the great wheel. — I am in love with this green earth, the face of town and country, the unspeakable rural solitudes, and the... | |
| 1848 - 1390 páginas
...duration, and to grudge at the expenditure of moments and the shortest periods, like misers' farthings. In proportion as the years both lessen and shorten,...upon their periods, and would fain lay my ineffectual linger upon the spoke of the great wheel. I am not content to pass away Mike a weaver's shuttle.' Those... | |
| 1848 - 734 páginas
...duration, and to grudge at the expenditure of moments and the shortest periods, like misers' farthings. In proportion as the years both lessen and shorten, I set more count upon their période, and would fain lay my ineffectual finger upon the spoke of the great wheel. I am not content... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1856 - 408 páginas
...duration, and to grudge at the expenditure of moments and shortest periods, like miser's far things. In proportion as the years both lessen and shorten,...upon their periods, and would fain lay my ineffectual ringer upon the spoke of the great wheel. I am riot content to pass away " like a weaver's shuttle."... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1857 - 672 páginas
...the years both lessened and shortened, he set more count upon their periods, and would fain lay his ineffectual finger upon the spoke of the great wheel. " I am not content," he fairly protests, " to pass away ' like a weaver's shuttle.' Those1 metaphors solace me not, nor... | |
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