 In my fiftieth year I began to suspect that the time of travelling was past, and thought it best to lay hold on the felicity yet in my power and indulge myself in domestic pleasures. But at fifty no man easily finds a woman beautiful as the Houries and...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 402by Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820Full view - About this book
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 446 pages
...therefore would not confine myself by marriage. 25 " In my fiftieth year I began to suspect that the time of travelling was past; and thought it best to...deliberated, till the sixty-second year made me ashamed of wishing to marry. I had now nothing left but retirement; and for retirement I never found a time, till... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 466 pages
...therefore would not confine myself by marriage. 25 " In my fiftieth year I began to suspect that the time of travelling was past; and thought it best to...beautiful as the Houries, and wise as Zobeide. I inquired 30 and rejected, consulted and deliberated, till the sixty-second year made me ashamed of wishing to... | |
 | Stephen Watkins Clark - 1851 - 204 pages
...travelling was past, and thought it best (G. 129, Obs. g) to lay hold on the felicity yet in (G. 94, Obs. 2) my power, and indulge myself in domestic pleasures....deliberated, till the sixty-second year made me ashamed (G. 129, Obs. 9) of wishing to marry. I had now (G. 173, note 4) nothing left but retirement ; and,... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1853 - 456 pages
...myself bj marriage. | " In my fiftieth year, 1 1 began to suspect that the time of travelling was pasZ;| and thought it best to lay hold on the felicity yet in my power, I and indulge myself in domestic pleasures. I Bui at fifty | no man easily finds a woman | beautiful... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1855 - 444 pages
...| " In my fiftieth year, 1 1 began to suspect thai the time of travelling was past ; i and though/ it best to lay hold on the felicity yet in my power, I and indulge myself in domestic pleasures. I Bui at fifty | no man easily finds a woman | beautiful... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1857 - 456 pages
...confine myself by marriage. 12. "In my fiftieth year', I began to suspect that the time of my traveling was past; and thought it best to lay hold on the felicity...deliberated, till the sixty-second year made me ashamed of wishing to marry. I had now nothing left but retirement^; and for retirement I never found a time',... | |
 | Lucius Osgood - 1858 - 494 pages
...confine myself by marriage\ 12. " In my fiftieth year, I began to suspect that the time of traveling was past*; and thought it best to lay hold on the...woman beautiful as the houries and wise as Zobeide. I mquired' and rejected*, consulted and deliberated', till the sixty-second year made me ashamed of wishing... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1860 - 368 pages
...confine myself by marriage. 1 2. " In my fiftieth year', I began to suspect that the time of my traveling was past, and thought it best to lay hold on the felicity...fifty no man easily finds a woman beautiful as the Houris, and wise as Zobeide. I inquired and rejected, consulted and deliberated, till the sixty-second... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1860 - 372 pages
...confine myself by marriage. 12. " In my fiftieth year', I began to suspect that the time of my traveling was past, and thought it best to lay hold on the felicity...fifty no man easily finds a woman beautiful as the Houris, and wise as Zobeide. I inquired and rejected, consulted and deliberated, till the sixty-second... | |
 | Romulus Magnus Oppman - 1867 - 484 pages
...and therfore would not confme myself by marriage. In my fiftieth year, I began to suspect that the time of travelling was past, and thought it best to lay hold of the felicity yet in my power, and indulge myself in domestic pleasures. But at ftfty no man easily... | |
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