 I am tempted to enter a protest against the trite and lavish praise of the happiness of our boyish years, which is echoed with so much affectation in the world. That happiness I have never known...  Annals of philosophy.. - Page 21815Full view - About this book
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...thought we were not to meet again." ' Letters of Boswell, p. 34. ' Gibbon (Misc. Works, \. 43) protests against ' the trite and lavish praise of the happiness of our boyish years, which is echoed with so much affectation in the world. That happiness I have never known, that time... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pages
...thought we were not to meet again." ' Letters of Boswell, p. 34. 1 Gibbon (Misc. Works, i. 43) protests against ' the trite and lavish praise of the happiness of our boyish years, which is echoed with so much affectation in the world. That happiness I have never known, that time... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 pages
...have been ashamed. At the conclusion of this first period of my life, I am tempted to enter a protest against the trite and lavish praise of the happiness of our boyish years, which is echoed with so much affectation in the world. That happiness I have never known, that time... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1814 - 726 pages
...been ashamed. • At the conclusion of this first period of my life, I am tempted to enter a protest against the trite and lavish praise of the happiness of our boyish years, which is echoed with so much affectation in the world. That happiness I have never known, that time... | |
 | 1815 - 520 pages
...it is in the recollection of the writer of this narrative that, on reading Mr. Gibbon's Memoirs, lie entirely concurred in the protest which the historian...lavish praise of the happiness of our boyish years." His talents were not suspected, and, if they had been known, would scarcely perhaps have been understood,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...have been ashamed. At the conclusion of this first period of my life, I am tempted to enter a protest against the trite and lavish praise of the happiness of our boyish years, which is echoed with so much affectation in the world. That happiness I have never known, that time... | |
 | 1830 - 336 pages
...have been ashamed. At the conclusion of this first period of my life, I am tempted to enter a protest against the trite and lavish praise of .the happiness of our boyish years, which is echoed with so much affectation in the world. That happiness I have never known, that time... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 594 pages
...been ashamed. At the conclusion of this period of my life, I am tempted to enter a protest again?; the trite and lavish praise of the happiness of our boyish years, which is echoed with sa much affectation in the world. That happiness I have never known, that time... | |
 | John Evans - 1831 - 322 pages
...against the joys of childhood. He thus frankly expresses himself: " I am tempted to enter a protest against the trite and lavish praise of the happiness of our boyish years, which is echoed with so much affectation in the world. That happiness I have never known, that time... | |
 | John Evans - 1834 - 306 pages
...against the joys of childhood. He thus frankly expresses himself: " I am tempted to enter a protest against the trite and lavish praise of the happiness of our boyish years, which is echoed with so much affectation in the world. That happiness I have never known, that time... | |
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