 I am yet unable to move or turn myself in my bed. This is my personal fortune here to begin with. And, besides, I can get no money from my tenants,' and have my meadows eaten up every night by cattle put in by my neighbours. What this signifies, or may...  The lives of the most eminent English poets - Page 21by Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1858 - 418 pages
...unable to move or turn myself in my bed. This is my personal fortune here to begin with. And, besides, I can get no money from my tenants, and have my meadows eaten up everv night by cattle put in by my neighbours. What this signifies, or may come to in time, God knows;... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1860 - 364 pages
...first came to Chertsey, of which he says, half in jest and half in earnest—' What this signifies, or may come to in time, God knows; if it be ominous, it can end in nothing less than hanging.' Robert Hall said of Bishop Watson that he seemed to have wedded political integrity... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1862 - 346 pages
...unable to move or turn myself in my bed. This is my personal fortune here to begin with. And, besides, I can get no money from my tenants, and have my meadows...night by cattle put in by my neighbours. What this signifies, or may come to in time, God knows ; if it be ominous, it can end in nothing less than hanging.... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1862 - 360 pages
...tenants, and have my meadows eaten up every night by cattle put in by my neighbours. What this signifies, or may come to in time, God knows ; if it be ominous, it can end in nothing less than hanging. Another misfortune has been and stranger than all the rest, that you have broke... | |
 | Books - 1868 - 220 pages
...unable to move or turn myself in bed. This is my personal fortune here to begin with. And besides, I can get no money from my tenants, and have my meadows...night by cattle put in by my neighbours. What this signifies, or may come to in time, God knows 1 if it be ominous, it can end in nothing but hanging."... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1868 - 240 pages
...it likely. " I can get no money," wrote Cowley to Dr. Sprat, " from my tenants, and my meadows are eaten up every night by cattle, put in by my neighbours. What this signifies or may come to in time God knows ; if it be ominous, it can end in nothing else than hanging."... | |
 | James Thorne - 1876 - 564 pages
...yet unable to turn myself in my bed. This is my personal fortune here to begin with. And, besides, I can get no money from my tenants, and have my meadows...night by cattle put in by my neighbours. What this signifies, or may come to in time, God knows ; if it be ominous, it can end in nothing less than hanging."... | |
 | James Thorne - 1876 - 450 pages
...yet unable to turn myself in my bed. This is my personal fortune here to begin with. And, besides, I can get no money from my tenants, and have my meadows...night by cattle put in by my neighbours. What this signifies, or may come to in time, God knows; if it be ominous, it can end in nothing less than hanging."... | |
 | John Murray (Firm), Richard John King - 1876 - 568 pages
...writes to Dean Sprat, " I caught so great a cold as to make me keep my chamber 10 days And besides, I can get no money from my tenants, and have my meadows eaten up by cattle put in by my neighbours. What this signifies, God knows; if it be ominous, it can end in... | |
 | James Thorne - 1876 - 426 pages
...tenants, and have my meadows eaten up every night by cattle put in by my neighbours. What this signifies, or may come to in time, God knows ; if it be ominous, it call end in nothing less than hanging." What it came to Sprat tells us : — ' ' Having languished... | |
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