 | Thomas Campbell - 1848 - 468 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... | |
 | 1849 - 602 pages
...time his relative's honor, and his own circumstances, urged him to an attempt. " Those," he says, " L ծ h ꦣ- D > q 3W6 #h+ L n #( X Tј Qʗ C -' c Y G > eqj on any occasion, is mortal poison, may have some idea of the horrors of my situation ; others can have... | |
 | 1900 - 676 pages
...appear at the Bar of the House of Lords, he attempted suicide rather than face the ordeal, and wrote, " They whose spirits are formed like mine, to whom a public exhibition is mental poison, may have some idea of the horrors of my situation — others can have none." It was... | |
 | 1900 - 614 pages
...appear at the Bar of the House of Lords, he attempted suicide rather than face the ordeal, and wrote, " They whose spirits are formed like mine, to whom a public exhibition is mental poison, may have some idea of the horrors of my situation — others can have none." It was... | |
 | William Cowper - 1851 - 790 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 lif s he expressed what he endured at the time in these remarkable words: "They whose spirits are formed... | |
 | 1851 - 592 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 350 pages
...post, and he was warned to expect a most rigorous scrutiny. " They," he himself wrote afterwards, " whose spirits are formed like mine, to whom a public...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,... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1855 - 522 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... | |
 | Robert Benton Seeley - 1855 - 294 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... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1855 - 520 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 themtelves, on any occasion, is mortal poison, may have some idea of the horrors of my situation ;... | |
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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. 
