 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1847 - 426 דפים
...poetical to attend to his affairs. He ran into debt ; and, as his friend Shenstone expressed it, " drank himself into pains of the body, in order to get rid of the pains of the mind." One branch of the Somerville family (companions of the Norman Conqueror, in former times) had settled... | |
 | 1850 - 412 דפים
...poetical to attend to his affairs. He ran into debt ; and, as his friend Shenstone expressed it, " drank himself into pains of the body, in order to get rid of the pains of the inind." One branch of the Somerville family (companions of the Norman Conqueror, in former times) had... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 484 דפים
...did not imagine I could have been so sorry as I find myself on this occasion. — Sublatum qiucrimw, I can now excuse all his foibles ; impute them to...to get rid of the pains of the mind, is a misery," &c. — He died July 19, 1742, and was buried at Wotton, near Henley in Arden.2 His distresses need... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 450 דפים
...and to distress of circumstances : the last of these considerations wrings my very soul to think oa For a man of high spirit, conscious of having (at...to get rid of the pains of the mind, is a misery," &c. — He died July 19, 1742, and was buried at Wotton, near Henley in Arden.8 His distresses need... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 344 דפים
...plagued and threatened by wretches that are low in every sense ; to be forced to JAMES SOMEBVILLE. drink himself into pains of the body, in order to...get rid of the pains of the mind, — is a misery."* He died July 19, 1742, and was buried at Wotton, near Henleyon-Arden. SOMERVILLE'S TOMB. His distresses... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 דפים
...in the latter part of his life, according to the account of his friend Sbenstone, the poet, "drank himself into pains of the body, in order to get rid of the pains of the mind." Thus, most lamentably, was his misery completed, and his end accelerated ; and he died in 1742, in... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 דפים
...in the latter part of his life, according to tlie account of his friend Shenstone, the poet, " drank himself into pains of the body, in order to get rid of the pains of the mind." Thus, most lamentably, was his misery completed, and his end accelerated; and he died in 1742, in the... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1857 - 210 דפים
...extravagance. Alluding to this, his friend Shcnstone,* who very much resembled him, remarks indignantly, " For a man of high spirit, conscious of having ( at...body, in order to get rid of the pains of the mind, is 8 misery.*' Somervile holds a somewhat higher place among the minor British poets than Jago. Johnson... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 דפים
...in ihe latter part of his life, according to the account of his friend Sheiistoue, the poet, "drank himself into pains of the body, in order to get rid of the pains of the mind." Tim?, most lamentably, was his misery completed, and liis end accelerated j and be died in 1742, in... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1857 - 524 דפים
...од the death fll Somerville, he writes, 4 To be forced to drink himself into pains of the bed», in order to get rid of the pains of the mind, is l nuwT which I can well conceive, because 1 mav, wit ho* it TU ty, esteem myself his equal in point... | |
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I can now excuse all his foibles ; impute them to age, and to distress of circumstances; the last of these considerations wrings my very soul to think on. For a man of high spirit, conscious of having, at least in one production, generally pleased the... 
