 In a few years, when he comes to be supplanted in that circle by a younger set, no resource remains for him but a retreat to the country, where he must pass his days either in a state of listless inactivity, or in pursuits unworthy of a rational being.  The Gentleman's Magazine - Page 3211780Full view - About this book
 | Periodicals - 1781 - 364 pages
...known any one that did not, in fome degree, fuffer from it ; that did not, more or lefs, become felfiih and contracted, conceited and opinionative. I never...the circle of gaiety, without feeling an emotion of compaffion. In a few years, when he comes to be fupplanted in that circle by a younger fet, no refource... | |
 | Henry Mackenzie - English essays - 1783 - 340 pages
...known any one that did not, in fome degree, fuffer from it; that did not, more or lefs, become felfifh and contracted, conceited and opinionative. I never...the circle of gaiety, without feeling an emotion of compaffion. In a few years, when he comes to be fupplanted in that circle by a younger fet, N 3 no... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 244 pages
...; that did not more or leas, become selfish and contracted, conceited and opinionative. I never see a young heir fluttering about town in the circle of gaiety, without feeling an emotion of compassion. In a few years, when he comes to be supplanted in that circle by a younger set, no resource... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 260 pages
...it; that did not more or less, become selfish and contracted, conceited and opinionative. I never see a young heir fluttering about town in the circle of gaiety, without feeling an emotion of compassion. In a few years, when he comes to be supplanted in that circle by a younger set, no resource... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 354 pages
...that did not, more or less, become selfish and contracted, conceited and opinionative. I never s'.-ca young heir fluttering about town in the circle of gaiety, without feeling an emotion of compassion, aa few years, when he comes to be supplanted in that circle by a younger set, no resource... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 358 pages
...that did not, more or less, become selfi->h and contracted, conceited and opinionative. I never see a young heir fluttering about town -in the circle of gaiety, without feeling an emotion of compassion. In a few years, when he comes to be supplanted in that circle by a younger set, no resource... | |
 | 1822 - 356 pages
...that did not, more or less, become selfish and contracted, conceited and opinionative. I never see a young heir fluttering about town in the circle of gaiety, without feeling an emotion of compassion. In a few years, when he comes to be supplanted in that circle by a younger set, no resource... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 340 pages
...that did not, more or less, become selfish and contracted, conceited and opinionative. I never see a young heir fluttering about town in the circle of gaiety, •without feeling an emotion of compassion. In a few years, when he comes to be supplanted in that circle by a younger set, no resource... | |
 | Godfrey Holden Pike - Methodism - 1903 - 354 pages
...seems to open to us the vista of an obsolete world. One observer, writing in 1780, says: 'I never see a young heir fluttering about town in the circle of gaiety without feeling an emotion of compassion. In a few years, when he comes to be supplanted in that circle by a younger set, no resource... | |
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