 ... the hopes which youth blends with the passion which disturbs and ennobles it : not even that he did all this cheerfully, and without pluming himself upon his brotherly nobleness as a virtue, or seeking to repay himself (as some uneasy martyrs do)...  De Quincey's Writings - Page 199by Thomas De Quincey - 1850Full view - About this book
 | American literature - 1849 - 606 pages
...long repining ; — but lhat he carried the spirit of the hour in which ho first knew and took bis course to his last. So far from thinking that his...lightest matters, he always wrote and spoke of her HS his wiser self, his generous benefactress, of whose protecting care he was scarcely worthy." It... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1848 - 342 pages
...seeking to repay himself (as some uneasy martyrs do) by small instalments of long repining,—but that he carried the spirit of the hour in which he first knew...benefactress, of whose protecting care he was scarcely worthy. How his pen almost grew wanton in her praise, even when she was a prisoner in the Asylum after the... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1848 - 328 pages
...to repay himself (as some uneasy martyrs do) by small instalments of long repining, — but that he carried the spirit of the hour in which he first knew...to his sister, gave him a license to follow his own ca- « price at the expense of her feelings, even in the lightest matters, he always wrote and spoke... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1848 - 252 pages
...himself (as some uneasy martyrs do) by small instalments of long repining, — but that he carried tke spirit of the hour in which he first knew and took...sacrifice of youth and love to his sister, gave him a licence to follow his own caprice at the expense of her feelings, even in the lightest matters, he... | |
 | Charles Lamb - Authors, English - 1849 - 270 pages
...to repay himself (as some uneasy martyrs do) by small instalments of long repining, — but that he carried the spirit of the hour in which he first knew...benefactress, of whose protecting care he was scarcely worthy. How his pen almost grew wanton in her praise, even when she was a prisoner in the Asylum after the... | |
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 638 pages
...to repay himself (as some uneasy martyrs do) by small instalments of long repining ; — but that he carried the spirit of the hour in which he first knew...the expense of her feelings, even in the lightest mailers, he always wrote and spoke of her as his wiser self, his generous benefactress, of whoso protecting... | |
 | 1849 - 588 pages
...to repay himself (as some uneasy martyrs do) by small instalments of long repining ;— but that he ion, than the Church of Rome — and that she appeals...less to the understanding, and more to the senses hU sacrifice of youth and love to his sister gave him a license to follow his own caprice at the expense... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English literature - 1850 - 392 pages
...to repay himself (as some uneasy martyrs do) by small instalments of long repining, — but that he carried the spirit of the hour in which he first knew...sacrifice of youth and love to his sister, gave him a licence to follow his own caprice at the expense of her feelings, even in the lightest matters, he... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English literature - 1852 - 684 pages
...to repay himself (as some uneasy martyrs do) by small instalments of long repining, — but that he t in, is not more inadequate to represent the horrors...Lear ; they might more easily propose to personate th bim a licence to follow his own caprice at the expense of her feelings, even in the lightest matters,... | |
 | Peter George Patmore - 1854 - 330 pages
...seeking to repay himself (as many uneasy martyrs do) by small instalments of long repining ; but he carried the spirit of the hour in which he first knew and took his course to the last Let it also be remembered, that this devotion of the entire nature was not exercised merely... | |
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