 I am sitting down in no cheerful solitude to write a narrative which would once have affected you with tenderness and sorrow, but which you will perhaps pass over now with the careless glance of frigid indifference. For this diminution of regard however,...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. - Page 435by Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820Full view - About this book
 | Religion - 1892 - 550 pages
...tenderness and sorrow, will now ' be passed over ' with the careless glance of frigid indifference. For th1s diminution of regard, however, I know not whether...blame you, who may have reasons which I cannot know. . . . You see I yet turn to you with my complaints as a settled and unalienable friend Do not, do not... | |
 | Percy Fitzgerald - 1880 - 354 pages
...once have affected you with tenderness and sorrow, but which you will perhaps pass over now with the careless glance of frigid indifference. For this diminution...what good I could, and have never done you evil." Two days before he had suffered a paralytic stroke, and he wrote — " ' How this will be received... | |
 | Eric Sutherland Robertson - Authors - 1883 - 416 pages
...once have affected you with tenderness and sorrow, but which you will perhaps pass over now with the careless glance of frigid indifference. For this diminution...myself, who have, for a great part of human life, clone you what good I could, and have never done you evil." Entirely absorbed in his own trouble, and... | |
 | Famous people - 1883 - 552 pages
...would once have affected you with tenderness and sorrow, but which you will pass over now with the careless glance of frigid indifference. For this diminution...blame you, who may have reasons which I cannot know ; I do not blame myself, who have for a great part of human life done you what good I could, and have... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1887 - 466 pages
...once have affected you with tenderness and sorrow, but which you will perhaps pass over now with the careless glance of frigid indifference. For this diminution...what good I could, and have never done you evil.' Piozzi Letters, ii. 268. ' I have loved you,' he continued, ' with virtuous affection ; I have honoured... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1887 - 470 pages
...once have affected you with tenderness and sorrow, but which you will perhaps pass over now with the careless glance of frigid indifference. For this diminution...what good I could, and have never done you evil.' Piozzi Letters, ii. 268. ' I have loved you,' he continued, ' with virtuous affection ; I have honoured... | |
 | Leonard Benton Seeley - Literary Criticism - 1891 - 394 pages
...once have affected you with tenderness and sorrow, but which you will perhaps pass over now with the careless glance of frigid indifference. For this diminution...what good I could, and have never done you evil." After describing a paralytic seizure by which two days before he had lost his speech for a time, he... | |
 | Leonard Benton Seeley - Literary Criticism - 1891 - 398 pages
...once have affected you with tenderness and sorrow, but which you will perhaps pass over now with the careless glance of frigid indifference. For this diminution...you what good I could, and have never done you evil" After describing a paralytic seizure by which two days before he had lost his speech for a time, he... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1891 - 548 pages
...once have affected you with tenderness and sorrow, but which you will perhaps pass over now with the careless glance of frigid indifference. For this diminution...myself, who have for a great part of human life done you \vhat good I could, and have never done you evil.' Piozzi Letters, ii. 268. ' I have loved you,' he... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1892 - 488 pages
...once have affected you with tenderness and sorrow, but which you will perhaps pass over now with the careless glance of frigid indifference. For this diminution...what good I could, and have never done you evil. I had been disordered in the usual way, and had been relieved by the usual methods, by opium and catharticks,... | |
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