 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1884 - 784 pages
...decaying nature, and the consciousness of surviving every pleasure, would at once induce him, with / only it could be prejudicial; and life acquires an imaginary value, in proportion as its real value... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1885 - 584 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.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1885 - 584 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.... | |
 | Frank McAlpine - American prose literature - 1886 - 456 pages
...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...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 - Harpsichord - 1891 - 336 pages
...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...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.... | |
 | Charles F. Beezley - Literature - 1891 - 436 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 requires an imaginary value in proportion as its real value is no more.... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - Quotations - 1893 - 694 pages
...folks ; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with, Sheridan. s the curse of his neighbours. Farrar. Goldsmith. Our best history is still poetry. Emerson. 15 Our best resolutions are frail when opposed... | |
 | Oscar Weineck - English language - 1893 - 296 pages
...these sentences are quotations from other books. We can not always judge from outward appearances. Our attachment to every object around us increases, in general, from the length of our rcquaintance with it. Gustavus Vasa delivered Sweden/rom the Danish orders, I shall send you the goods... | |
 | Charles Josselyn - California - 1903 - 320 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 happily the contempt of death forsakes him, at a rime when it could be only prejudicial; and life acquires an imaginary value, in proportion as its... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1914 - 434 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... 
