 | Oliver Goldsmith - Irish literature - 1851 - 476 pages
...decaying nature, and the consciousness of surviving every pleasure, would at once induce him, with his own hand, to terminate the scene of misery : but...contempt of death forsakes him at a time when it could only be prejudicial ; and life acquires an imaginary value in proportion as its real value is no more.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...decaying nature, and the consciousness of surviving every pleasure, would at once induce him, with Lo I where the giant on the mountain stands, His blood-red tresses deepening in the sun, With death- lime when it could only be prejudicial, and life acquire« an imaginary value in proportion as its... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 pages
...decaying nature, and the consciousness of surviving every pleasure, would at once induce him, with his own hand, to terminate the scene of misery ; but,...contempt of death forsakes him at a time when it could only be prejudicial ; and life acquires an imaginary value, in proportion as its real value is no more.... | |
 | Frederick Edward Gretton - English language - 1853 - 152 pages
...the rainfalls down like the sprinkling mist, a shade like to sadness comes over my senses. XXXIII. Our attachment to every object around us increases,...general, from the length of our acquaintance with it. The mind may become familiar even with solitude and darkness, and the walls of a dungeon prove more... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 592 pages
...Man, art i. scone 2. the consciousness of surviving every pleasure, would at once induce him, with his own hand, to terminate the scene of misery; but...contempt of death forsakes him, at a time when it could only he prejudicial; and life acquires an imaginary value, in proportion as its real value is no more.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 588 pages
...decaying nature, and the consciousness of surviving every pleasure, would at once induce him, with his own hand, to terminate the scene of misery ; but...contempt of death forsakes him at a time when it could only be prejudicial ; and life acquires an imaginary value, in proportion as its real value is uo more.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 538 pages
...conseiousness of surviving every pleasure, would at once induce him, with his own hand, to terminate the seene of misery ; but happily the contempt of death forsakes him at a time when it could only be prejudieial ; and life aequires an imaginary value, in proportion as its real value is no more.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 556 pages
...every pleasure, would at once induce him, with his own hand, to terminate the scene of misery; hut happily the contempt of death forsakes him, at a time when it could only be prejudicial; and life acquires an imaginary value, in proportion as its real value is no more.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1854 - 576 pages
...the eontempt of death forsakes him, at a time when it eould be only prejudieial ; and life aequires an imaginary value, in proportion as its real value is no more. Our attaehment to every objeet around us inereases, in general, from the length of our aequaintanee with... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1855 - 582 pages
...decaying nature, and the consciousness of surviving every pleasure, would at once induce him, with his own hand, to terminate the scene of misery ; but...contempt of death forsakes him at a time when it could only be prejudicial ; and life acquires an imaginary value in proportion as its real value is no more.... | |
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... of manhood ; the numberless calamities of decaying nature, and the consciousness of surviving every pleasure, would at once induce him, with his own hand, to terminate the scene of misery ; but happily the contempt of death forsakes him at a time... 
