 | Tobias Smollett - 1803 - 614 ページ
...unnecessary: but a parliamentary dispute required his attendance at the bar. ' Speaking of this imjjortant Incident in a sketch, which he once formed himself,...have none." ' His terrors on this occasion arose to stich an astonishing height, that they utterly overwhelmed his reason : — for altho' he had endeavoured... | |
 | 1804 - 496 ページ
...dispute made it necessary for him to appear at the bar of the house of lords, to entitle himself publicly to the office. " Speaking of this important incident, * in a sketch, which he once formed himself., of passage» in hi» early life, he expresses what he endured at the time in these remarkable words :... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 394 ページ
...dispute made it necessary for him to appear at the Bar of the House of Lords, to entitle himself publicly to the office. Speaking of this important incident...poison, may have some idea " of the horrors of my situation — others can have "none." His terrors on this occasion arose to such an astonishing height,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 402 ページ
...dispute made it necessary for him to appear at the bar of the house of lords, to entitle himself publicly to the office. ' " Speaking of this important incident...whose spirits are formed like mine, to whom a public exhihition of themselves is mortal poison, may bare soine idea of the horrours of my situation— others... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1813 - 540 ページ
...dispute made it necessary for him to appear at the bar of the house of lords, to entitle himself publicly to the office. Speaking of this important incident...mortal poison, may have some idea of the horrors of my situation : others can have none.' — His terrors on this occasion arose to such an astonishing height,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1813 - 538 ページ
...dispute made it necessary for him to appear at the bar of the house of lords, to entitle himself publicly to the office. Speaking of this important incident...public exhibition of themselves is mortal poison, tnay have some idea of the horrors of my situation : others can have none.' — His terrors on this... | |
 | William Cowper - 1816 - 184 ページ
...circumstances, all urged me forward; all pressed me to undertake that which I saw to be impracticable. They whose spirits are formed like mine, to whom a public exhibition of themselves, on any occasion, is mortal poison, may have some idea of the horrors of my situation; others can have... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 466 ページ
...circumstances, all urged me for" ward, all pressed me to undertake that which I " saw to be impracticable. They whose spirits are " formed like mine, to whom a public exhibition of " themselves, on any occasion, is mortal poison, may " have some idea of the horrors of my situation — " others... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 562 ページ
...dispute made it necessary for him to appear at the bar of the House of Lords, to entitle himself publicly to the office. , " Speaking of this important incident...sketch, .which he once formed himself of passages iu his early life, he expresses what he endured at the time, in these remarkable words : ' They whose... | |
 | 1826 - 440 ページ
...circumstances, all urged me forward, and pressed me to undertake that which I saw to be impracticable. They whose spirits are formed like mine, to whom a public exhibition of themselves, on any occasion, is mortal poison, may have some idea of the horror of my situation — others can... | |
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They whose spirits are formed like mine, to whom a public exhibition of themselves, on any occasion, is mortal poison, may have some idea of the horrors of my situation; others can have none. 
