 Hence it is that good-nature in me is no merit; but having been so frequently overwhelmed with her tears before I knew the cause of any affliction, or could draw defences from my own judgment, I imbibed commiseration, remorse, and an unmanly gentleness...  The British Essayists: Tatler - Seite 3861823Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Charles Townsend Copeland - 1926 - 1744 Seiten
...remorse, and an unmanly gentleness of mind, which has since ensnared me into ten thousand calamities; n, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it h humor as I am now in, I can the better indulge myself in the softnesses of humanity, and enjoy that... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland - 1926 - 1746 Seiten
...into ten thousand calamities; from whence I can reap no advantage, except it be, that, in such a humor As will not leave their tinct. Ham. Nay, but to live softnesses of humanity, and enjoy that sweet anxiety which arises from the memory of past afflictions.... | |
 | Walter James Graham - 1928 - 440 Seiten
...remorse, and an unmanly gentleness of mind, which has since ensnared me into ten thousand calamities; from whence I can reap no advantage, except it be,...afflictions. We that are very old are better able to remember things which befell us in our distant youth than the passages of later days. For this reason... | |
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