 | Tobias Smollett - 1775 - عدد الصفحات: 552
...defpairing ever to find their' equals, it is fome years fince I have clofe.d my accounts, and ffiut up my books, with thoughts of never opening them again : but you have kindled a defire in me of opening them once more before Idle; which I now do; fo go home and dine with me."'... | |
 | 1778 - عدد الصفحات: 626
...ever to find their equals, , it is some )ears sinci' I have closed my accounts, and shut up my bocks, with thoughts of never opening them again ; but you...kindled a desire in me of opening them once more before 1 die, which I now do, so go home, and dine with me.' This nobleman, I say, is a prodigy, for at eightv-five... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1783 - عدد الصفحات: 220
...and, defpairing ever to find their equals, it is fome years fince I have clofed my accounts, and Ihut up my books, with thoughts of never opening them again; but you have kindled a defire in me of opening them, once more before I die ; which I now do ; fo go home and dine with me."... | |
 | 1791 - عدد الصفحات: 634
...and defpniring ever to find their equals, it is fome years fince 1 have clofed my accounts and (hut up my books, with thoughts of never opening them again ; but you have kindled a defirc in me of opening them once more before I die, which I now do, fo go home, and dine with me.'... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1794 - عدد الصفحات: 278
...and fhut " up my books, with thoughts of never open" ing them again ; but you have kindled a dc" fire in me of opening them once more before " I die; which I now do; fo go home-and " dirre with me." This nobleman, I fay, is a prodigy ; for at eighty five he has all... | |
 | 1795 - عدد الصفحات: 486
...defpsiring ever to find iheir equals, it is lome years lince 1 have clofcd my accounts, and (hut up iny books with thoughts of never opening them again : but you have kindled a deGre in me of opening them again once Bore before I die, which 1 now do ; locóme home and dine with... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - عدد الصفحات: 430
...and dtfpairing ever to find, their equals, it is fome years fince I have clofed my accounts, and (hut up my books, with thoughts of never opening them again: but you have kindled a defire in me of opening them once more btfore I die, which I now do ; fo go home, and dine with me.'... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1802 - عدد الصفحات: 284
...had lived mv, life with geniuses of that cast, but have survived them ; and despairing ever to find their equals, it is some years since I have closed...in me of opening them once more before I die, which Inow do r— so go home and dine with me. » This nobleman, I say, is a prodigy ; for at eighty-five... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1803 - عدد الصفحات: 474
...and " fhut up my books, with thoughts of never open" ing them again ; but you have.kindled a defire in •' me of opening them once more before I die ; " which I now do; fo go home and dine with me ;" —This nobleman, I fay, is a prodigy ; for at eightyfive he has all... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1803 - عدد الصفحات: 262
...and " fhut up my books, with thoughts of never open" ing them again ; but you have kindled a defire in " me of opening them once more before I die ; " which I now do; fo go home and dine with me •," — This nobleman, I fay, is a prodigy ; for at eightyfive he has... | |
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You have heard, continued he, of an old Lord Bathurst, of whom your Popes and Swifts have sung and spoken so much: I have lived my life with geniuses of that cast; but have survived them; and, despairing ever to find their equals, it is some years since... 
