 | 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 страници
...not home to himself, any more than in a hot June we can appropriate to our imagination the freezing days of December. But now, shall I confess a truth...of my duration, and to grudge at the expenditure of moment?, like miser's farthings. In proportion as the years both lessen and shorten, I set more count... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1835 - 440 страници
...not home to himself, any more than in a hot June we can appropriate to our imagination the freezing days of December. But now, shall I confess a truth...expenditure of moments and shortest periods, like misers' farthings. In proportion as the years both lessen and shorten, I set more count upon their... | |
 | 1835 - 432 страници
...not home to himself, any more than in a hot June we can appropriate to our imagination the freezing days of December. But now, shall I confess a truth...expenditure of moments and shortest periods, like misers' farthings. In proportion as the years both lessen and shorten, I set more count upon their... | |
 | 1835 - 430 страници
...not home to himself, any more than in a hot June we can appropriate to our imagination the freezing days of December. But now, shall I confess a truth?...these audits but too powerfully. I begin to count the probahilities of my duration, and to grudge at the expenditure of moments and shortest periods, like... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1836 - 362 страници
...not home to himself, any more than in a hot June we can appropriate to our imagination the freezing days of December. But now, shall I confess a truth...expenditure of moments and shortest periods, like misers' farthings. In proportion as the years both lessen and shorten, I set more count upon their... | |
 | 1838 - 1050 страници
...can appropriate to our imagination the freezing days of December. But now shall I confess a truth > [ feel these audits but too powerfully. I begin to count...at the expenditure of moments and shortest periods, ike misers' farthings. In proportion as the years joth lessen and shorten, I set more count upon their... | |
 | 1835 - 610 страници
...not home to himself, any more than in a hot June we can appropriate to our imagination the freezing days of December. But now, shall I confess a truth ? — I feel these audits hut too powerfully. I begin to count the probabilities of my duration, and to grudge at the expenditure... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1840 - 304 страници
...not home to himself, any more than in a hot June we can appropriate to our imagination the freezing days of December. But now, shall I confess a truth...expenditure of moments and shortest periods, like misers' farthings. In proportion as the years both lessen and shorten, I set more count upon their... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1845 - 396 страници
...not home to himself, any more than in a hot June we can appropriate to our imagination the freezing days of December. But now, shall I confess a truth...expenditure of moments and shortest periods, like misers' farthings. In proportion as the years both lessen and shorten, I set more count upon their... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1847 - 400 страници
...Lamb, in his last Essays of Elia, wherein he says, in language with which all must sympathise, — "I begin to count the probabilities of my duration, and to grudge at the expenditure of moments, like misers' farthings. In proportion as the years both lessen and shorten, I would fain lay my ineffectual... | |
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He knows it indeed, and, if need were, he could preach a homily on the fragility of life ; but he brings it not home to himself, any more than in a hot June we can appropriate to our imagination the freezing days of December. 
