 | Laurence Sterne - 1813 - 376 pages
...green : in dangers ye gilded my horizon with hope ; and when Death himself knocked at my door, he bade him come again ; and in so gay a tone of careless indifference did he do it, that he doubted of his commission. " — There must certainly be some mistake in this " matter,"... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 274 pages
...in dangers ye gilded my horizon with hope ; and when DEATH himself knocked at my door, — ye hade him come again; and in so gay a tone of careless indifference did ye do it, that he douhted of his commission. '•— Thnv must certainly he some mistake in this " matter," quoth he.... | |
 | 1854 - 604 pages
...green : in dangers ye gilded my horizon with hope, and,' when Death himself knocked at my door, ye bade him come again ; and in so gay a tone of careless...did ye do it, that he doubted of his commission." Swift's exclamation, " Vive la bagatelle," was the forced effort of a man doomed to hopeless melancholy,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1854 - 632 pages
...came in my way either with sable or with a sickly green r-in dangers ye gildecj my horizon with hope, and, when Death himself knocked at my door, ye bad him come again ; and in so gay a fone ofj careless, indifference da}, ye do, it^ that he doubted of his coin mission.' Swift's exclamation,.... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1855 - 448 pages
...in dangers ye gilded my horizon with hope ; and -when DEATH himself knocked at my door, — ye bade him come again ; and in so gay a tone of careless...commission. " — There must certainly be some mistake 4 in this matter," quoth he. and was showing him the grounds and justice of the procedure. t; — Did... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1864 - 440 pages
...in dangers ye gilded my horizon with hope ; and when DEATH himself knocked at my door, — ye bade him come again ; and in so gay a tone of careless indifference did ye do it, that he doubted of bis commission. " — There must certainly be some mistake 1 in this matter," quoth he. Now there is... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1873 - 510 pages
...dangers ye gilded my horizon with hope ; ' and when Death himself knocked at my door, — ye ' bade him come again ; and in so gay a tone of careless...did ye do it, that he doubted of his ' commission.' Such a disposition was strongly manifested by him at school, in Halifax, where he became a favoxirite... | |
 | John Guard - 1879 - 476 pages
...green ; in dangers ye gilded my horizon with hope, and when Death himself knocked at my door, ye bade him come again, and in so gay a tone of careless indifference that he doubted of his commission.' Perkins. ' Pretty busy, eh !' Sam WtUfr. 'Oh, werry well, sir;... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1882 - 500 pages
...dangers ye gilded my horizon with hope ; and when Death himself knocked at my door, ye bade him como again ; and in so gay a tone of careless indifference...commission. 'There must certainly be some mistake in tJiis matter,' quoth he. Now there is nothing in tins world I abominate worse than to be interrupted... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1884 - 326 pages
...green ; in dangers ye gilded my horizon with hope, and when Death himself knocked at my door ye bade him come again, and in so gay a tone of careless indifference did ye do it that he doubted of his commission. Now there is nothing in this world I abominate worse than to be interrupted in a story, and I was that... | |
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... it (except its cares) upon my back ; in no one moment of my existence, that I remember, have ye once deserted me, or tinged the objects which came in my way, either with sable, or with a sickly green ; in dangers ye gilded my horizon with hope, and... 
