 | John Walker - Elocution - 1801 - 424 pages
...mistakes, however, will be rectified by attending to the pronunciation of the following sentence : When I am in a serious humour, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey; where the gloominess of Hie place, and the use to which it is applied, with the... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 420 pages
...Pliitonia HOR. With equal foot, rich friend, impartial fate Knocks at the cottage, and the palace gate : Life's span forbids thee to extend thy cares, And...quickly go To story'd ghosts, and Pluto's house below. CKEECH. WHEN I am in a serious humour, I very often •walk by myself in Westminster-Abbey ; where... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 322 pages
...verge of the grave, it is more eminently true.... Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat inchoare longam. Life's span forbids thee to extend thy cares, And stretch thy hopes beyond thy years. CREECH. We have no longer any possibility of great vicissitudes in our favour; the changes which are... | |
 | English essays - 1803 - 450 pages
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 | English essays - 1803 - 454 pages
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 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 416 pages
...lOd.iv. 13. With equal foot, rich friend, impartial fate Knocks at the cottage, and the palace gate : Life's span forbids thee to extend thy cares, And...hopes beyond thy years : Night soon will seize, and yon must quickly go To story'd ghosts, and Pluto's house below. CREECH. WHEN I am in a serious hnmour,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 462 pages
...the verge of the grave it is more eminently true; Vitce summit brevis spem nos vetat inchoare longam. Life's span forbids thee to extend thy cares, And stretch thy hopes beyond thy years. CUEECH. We have no longer any possibility of great vicissitudes in our favour ; the changes which are... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 pages
...verge of the grave it is more eminently true ; Vitii summa irevis spent nos vetat inchoarc longam. Life's span forbids thee to extend thy cares, And stretch thy hopes beyond thy years. CREECH. We have no longer any possibility of great vicissitudes in our favor ; the changes which are... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 394 pages
...the verge of the grave it is more eminently true ; Vitx summa brevis spem nos vetat inchoare longam. Life's span forbids thee to extend thy cares, And stretch thy hopes beyond thy years. CKEECH. We have no longer any possibility of great vicissitudes in our favor ; the changes which are... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English literature - 1811 - 508 pages
...spem nos vetat inchoare longam : Jam te premet nox, fabulaque manes, Et domui exilis Pltttonia HoR. WHEN I am in a serious humour, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey; where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the... | |
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WHEN I am in a serious humour, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey; where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people... 
