 The old man's passion for confinement is similar to that we all have for life. We are habituated to the prison, we look round with discontent, are displeased with the abode, and yet the length of our captivity only increases our fondness for the cell....  Select British Classics - Страница 451804Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1810 - 338 страници
...and yettho length of our captivity only increases our fond* ness for the cell. The trees we !i ive planted, the houses we have built, or the posterity...begotten, all serve to bind us closer to earth, and imbitter our parting. Life sues 'he young like a new acquaintance ; the companion, as yet unexhausted,... | |
 | 1796 - 34 страници
...the prison; we look round with discontent, are displeased with the abode, and yet the length of our captivity only increases our fondness for the cell....posterity we have begotten, all serve to bind us closer to the earth, and imbitter our parting. Life sues the young like a new acquaintance ; the companion, as... | |
 | Sydney Melmoth - 1805 - 368 страници
...the prison, we look round with discontent, are displeased with the abode, and yet the length of our captivity only increases our fondness for the cell....posterity we have begotten, all serve to bind us closer to the earth, and embitter our parting. Life sues the young like a new acquaintance : the companion, as... | |
 | Manual - 1809 - 288 страници
...discontent, are displeased with the abode, and yet the length of onr captivity only increases our fond ness for the cell. The trees we have planted, the houses...sues the young like a new acquaintance; the companion is yet unexhausted, is at once instructive and amusing, its company pleases, yet for all that it is... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 522 страници
...the prison, we look round with discontent, are displeased with the abode, and yet the length of our captivity only increases our fondness for the cell....yet unexhausted, is at once instructive and amusing, it is company pleases, yet for all this it is but little regarded. To us, who are declined in years,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - 462 страници
...the prison, we look round with discontent, are displeased with the abode, and yet the length of our captivity only increases our fondness for the cell....built, or the posterity we have begotten, all serve to bii\d us closer to earth, and embitter our parting. Life sues the young like a new acquaintance ; the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 294 страници
...discontent, are diepleased v-ith the abode, and yet the length of our captivity only increases our fonduess for the cell. The trees we have planted, the houses we have built, or the posterity we have hegotten, all serve to hind as closer to the earth, and imhiitcr our parting. Life sues the young like... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 страници
...the prison, we look round with discontent, are displeased with the abode, and yet the length of our captivity only increases our fondness for the cell....trees we have planted, the houses we have built, or our posterity now rising around us, all serve to bind us closer to the earth, and imbitter our parting.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1820 - 706 страници
...the prison, we look round with discontent, are displeased with the abode, and yet the length of our captivity only increases our fondness for the cell....yet unexhausted, is at once instructive and amusing, it is company pleases, yet for all this it is but little regarded. To us, who are declined in years,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 794 страници
...length of our captivity only increases our fondness for the cell. Thetreeswe have planted, the house? ls tremblewhile they gaze, He saw, — but, blasted with excess of light, Clos'd (be earth, and embitter our parting. Life sues the young like a new acquaintance; the companion, as... | |
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