 | William Cowper - 1816 - 184 pages
...circumstances, all urged me forward; all pressed me to undertake that which I saw to be impracticable. They whose spirits are formed like mine, to whom a public exhibition of themselves, on any occasion, is mortal poison, may have some idea of the horrors of my situation; others can have... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 466 pages
...circumstances, all urged me for" ward, all pressed me to undertake that which I " saw to be impracticable. They whose spirits are " formed like mine, to whom a public exhibition of " themselves, on any occasion, is mortal poison, may " have some idea of the horrors of my situation — " others... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 562 pages
...office. , " Speaking of this important incident in a sketch, .which he once formed himself of passages iu his early life, he expresses what he endured at the...mortal poison, may have some idea of the horrors of my situation — others can have none.' " His terrors on this occasion arose to such an astonishing height... | |
 | 1826 - 440 pages
...circumstances, all urged me forward, and pressed me to undertake that which I saw to be impracticable. They whose spirits are formed like mine, to whom a public exhibition of themselves, on any occasion, is mortal poison, may have some idea of the horror of my situation — others can... | |
 | William Cowper - 1830 - 374 pages
...circumstances, all urged me forward : all pressed me to undertake that which I saw to be impracticable. They whose spirits are formed like mine, to whom a public exhibition of themselves, on any occasion, is mortal poison, may have some idea of the horror of my situation ; others can have... | |
 | Thomas Taylor - 1833 - 512 pages
...circumstances, all urged me forward, and pressed me to undertake that which I saw to be impracticable. They whose spirits are formed like mine, to whom a public exhibition of themselves, on any occasion, is mortal poison, may have some idea of the horror of my situation — others can... | |
 | Thomas Taylor - 1833 - 354 pages
...circumstances, all urged me forward, and pressed me to undertake that which I saw to be impracticable. They whose spirits are formed like mine, to whom a public exhibition of themselves, on any occasion, is mortal poison, may have some idea of the horror of my situation — others can... | |
 | 1835 - 542 pages
...for the post. " They whose spirits are formed like mine," he thus expressed himself in after-life, "to whom a public exhibition of themselves is mortal poison, may have some ideas of the horrors of my situation : others can have none." He fought hard against this morbid feeling;... | |
 | William Cowper, William Hayley - 1835 - 376 pages
...the bar of the House of Lords, to entitle himself publicly to the office. Speaking of this important incident in a sketch, which he once formed himself,...mortal poison, may have some idea of the horrors of my situation — others can have none." His terrors on this occasion arose to such an astonishing height,... | |
 | William Cowper, William Hayley - 1835 - 372 pages
...the bar of the House of Lords, to entitle himself publicly to the office. Speaking of this important incident in a sketch, which he once formed himself, of passages in his early life, he expressed what he endured at the time in these remarkable words : " They, whose spirits are formed... | |
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They whose spirits are formed like mine, to whom a public exhibition of themselves, on any occasion, is mortal poison, may have some idea of the horrors of my situation; others can have none. 
