 Do thou teach me not only to foresee, but to enjoy, nay, even to feed on future praise. Comfort me by a solemn assurance, that when the little parlour in which I sit at this instant, shall be reduced to a worse furnished box, I shall be read with honour...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 3451926Full view - About this book
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1854 - 468 pages
...the little parlour in which I sit at this moment shall be reduced to a worse furnished box, I shall be read with honour by those who never knew nor saw me, and whom I shall neither know nor ece." — Book xiii., chap. 1. 2 Mr. Buffon, from our disregard of the possibility of death within... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 pages
...which I Bit at this moment shall be reduced to a worse furnished box, I shall be read with 1 onour by those who never knew nor saw me, and whom I shall neither know nor see." — Book xiii., chap. 1. • Mr. Buffon, from our disregard of the possibility of death within the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1856 - 596 pages
...the little parlour in which I sit at this instant shall be reduced to a worse furnished box, I shall be read with honour by those who never knew nor saw me, and whom I shall neither know nor see.' Nay, in the invocation to Wealth, which follows, he seems to anticipate that the reputation of his... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1857 - 456 pages
...little parlour, in which I sit at this instant, shall be reduced to a worse furnished box, I shall be read, with honour, by those who never knew nor saw me, and whom I shall neither know nor see. And thou, much plumper dame, whom no airy forms nor phantoms of imagination clothe ; whom the well-seasoned... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1861 - 452 pages
...little parlour, in which I sit at this instant, shall be reduced to a worse furnished box, I shall be read, with honour, by those who never knew nor saw me, and whom I shall neither know nor see. And thou, much plumper dame, whom no airy forms nor phantoms of imagination clothe ; whom the well-seasoned... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, William Smith - Byzantine Empire - 1862 - 466 pages
...which I ait at this moment shall be reduced to a worse furnished box, I shall be read with l.onour by those who never knew nor saw me, and whom I shall neither know nor see." — Book xiii., chap. 1. 2 Mr. Buffon, from our disregard of the possibility of death within the four-andtwenty... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Historians - 1869 - 462 pages
...par1our 111 vvmuii i si,. m LUIS iiiuiiicni MUILL uc reuuueu LU it worse 1urmsiieu DUX, i sii;ni oe read with honour by those who never knew nor saw me. and whom I shall neither know nor "in . .1. _.;«• _t . my last: but the laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1871 - 608 pages
...the little parlour in which I sit at this instant, shall be reduced to a worse furnished box, I shall be read with honour by those who never knew nor saw me, and whom I shall neither know nor see. And thou, much plumper dame, whom no airy forms nor phantoms of imagination clothe : whom the wellseasoned... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1871 - 596 pages
...the little parlour in which I sit at this instant, shall be reduced to a worse furnished box, I shall be read with honour by those who never knew nor saw me, and whom. I shall neither know nor see. And thou, much plumper dame, whom no airy forms nor phantoms of imagination clothe: whom the wellseasoned... | |
 | Francis Jacox - Authors - 1872 - 530 pages
...the little parlour in which I sit at this moment shall be reduced to a worse-furnished box, I shall be read with honour by those who never knew nor saw me, and whom I shall neither know nor see." Earlier in his memoirs Gibbon bestowed a passing mention on his ancestor John, who " expected immortal... | |
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