 I beheld his body half wasted away with long expectation and confinement, and felt what kind of sickness of the heart it was which arises from hope deferred. Upon looking nearer, I saw him pale and feverish, in thirty years the western breeze had not...  Elements of the philosophy of the human mind - Page 377by Dugald Stewart - 1829Full view - About this book
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...confinement , and felt what kind of sickness of the heart it was whic/i arises from hope dei'erred. Upon looking nearer* I saw him pale and feverish ;...in all that time — nor had the voice of friend or kius*man breathed through bis lattice. His chikU "o ren — But here my heart began to bleed — and... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1805 - 500 pages
...view ot nature was obstructed by the narrow and blackened walls of a loathsome and detested cell. " He had seen no sun, no moon, in all that time, nor had the western breeze once fanned his blood." Language could only employ itself in curses oa TISIT TO TBK... | |
 | Flowers of literature - 1807 - 626 pages
...smile, " Inclining o'er the eoach of woe." ACCOUNT OF THE CELEBRATED BARON TRENCK. " He had seen no man, no moon in all that time— nor had the voice of friend or kinsman breathed through his lattice." STERNE. BARON DE TRENCK, at the time of the first war between the king of Prussia and the house of... | |
 | William Enfield - 1808 - 434 pages
...what kind of sickness of the heart it was which arises from hope deferred. — Upon looking nearer, 1 saw him pale and feverish : in thirty years the western...— nor had the voice of friend or kinsman breathed thro' his lattice. His children But here my heart began to bleed- — and I was forced to go on with... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1810 - 292 pages
...and confinement, and felt what kind of sickness of the heart it was which arises from hope deferr'd. Upon looking nearer, I saw him pale and feverish : in thirty years the western breeze had hot once fann'd his blood — he had seen no sun, no moon, in ail that time — nor had the voice of... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 pages
...dungeon, I then looked through the twilight of his grated door to take his picture.. in aH that time—nor had the voice of friend or kinsman 'breathed through...lattice. His children —But here my heart began to bleed—and I was forced to go on with another part of the portrait. He was sitting upon the ground... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1813 - 520 pages
...blood : he *' had feen no fun, no moon, in all that time, nor had " the voice of friend or kinfman breathed through " his lattice. His children But here...heart " began to bleed, and I was forced to go on with an" other part of the portrait. " He was fitting upon the ground, in the fartheft " corner of his dungeon,... | |
 | Abner Alden - 1814 - 222 pages
...confinement, and felt what kind of sickness of the heait it was, which arises from hop* deferred. II. Upon looking nearer, I saw him pale and feverish :...here my heart began to bleed—- and I was forced logo on with another part of the portrait. He was sitting upon the ground upon a little straw, in the... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 528 pages
...confinement, and felt what kind of " sickness of the heart it is, which arises from hope defer" red. Upon looking nearer, I saw him pale and feverish :...lattice. His children But here my heart began to " bleed, apd I was forced to go on with another part of the " portrait. " He was sitting upon the ground, in... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - 424 pages
...long expectation and confinement ; and felt what kind of sickness of the hieartitis which arises from hope deferred. Upon looking nearer, I saw him pale and feverish. In. thirty year*s~the weste-n breeze had not once fanned his blood— i-'he had seen no sun, no moon, in all that... | |
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