 | Thomas Carlyle - 1903 - 174 Seiten
...lass. In short, she, altogether unwittingly to herself, initiated me in that delicious passion, which, in spite of acid disappointment, gin-horse prudence,...book-worm philosophy, I hold to be the first of human joys here below ! How she caught the contagion I cannot tell. . . . Indeed, I did not know myself why I... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1905 - 412 Seiten
...lass. In short, she, altogether unwittingly to herself, initiated me in that delicious passion, which, in spite of acid disappointment, gin-horse prudence,...below ! How she caught the contagion, I cannot tell : yon medical people talk much of infection from breathing the same air, the touch, &c. ; but I never... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1905 - 770 Seiten
...lass. In short, she, altogether unwittingly to herself, initiated me into that delicious passion which, in spite of acid disappointment, gin-horse prudence,...bookworm philosophy, I hold to be the first of human joys here below." The first offspring of his muse was entitled " Handsome Nell," which, though he afterward... | |
 | Henry C. Shelley - 1909 - 426 Seiten
...life on the farm at Lochlea. This new home of Burns — initiated me in that delicious passion which, in spite of acid disappointment, gin-horse prudence,...much of infection from breathing the same air, the same touch, etc. ; but I never expressly said I loved her. Indeed I did not know myself why I liked... | |
 | Henry Charles Shelley - 1906 - 430 Seiten
...In short, she, altogether unwittingly to herself, 185 initiated me in that delicious passion which, in spite of acid disappointment, gin-horse prudence,...much of infection from breathing the same air, the same touch, etc. ; but I never expressly said I loved her. Indeed I did not know myself why I liked... | |
 | 1901 - 926 Seiten
...lass. In short, she, altogether unwittingly to herself, initiated me in the delicious passion, which in spite of acid disappointment, gin-horse prudence,...first of human joys, our dearest blessing here below ! " The young harvester goes on to relate how this agreeable fellow-worker, Nelly Kirkpatrick by name,... | |
 | Robert Ford - 1906 - 212 Seiten
...— "She, altogether unwittingly to herself, initiated me into a certain delicious passion, which, in spite of acid disappointment, gin-horse prudence,...philosophy, I hold to be the first of human joys, our chiefest pleasure here below. How she caught the contagion, I cannot tell ; you medical folks talk... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1906 - 764 Seiten
...lass. In short, she, altogether unwittingly to herself, initiated me into that delicious passion which, in spite of acid disappointment, gin-horse prudence,...bookworm philosophy, I hold to be the first of human joys here below." The first offspring of his muse was entitled " Handsome Nell," which, though he afterward... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1906 - 510 Seiten
...initiated me in that delicious passion, which, in spite of acid disappointment, gin-horse prudenee, and book-worm philosophy, I hold to be the first of human joys, our dearest blessing here below." 1 He sat beside her with a joy which he did not understand, to " pick out from her little hand the... | |
 | George Iles - 1908 - 202 Seiten
...lass." In short, she, altogether unwittingly to herself, initiated me in that delicious passion, which, in spite of acid disappointment, gin-horse prudence,...infection from breathing the same air, the touch, etc., but I never expressly 49 said I loved her. Indeed I did not know myself why I liked so much to... | |
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In short, she, altogether unwittingly to herself, initiated me in that delicious passion, which, in spite of acid disappointment, gin-horse prudence, and book-worm philosophy, I hold to be the first of human joys, our dearest blessing here below... 
