 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
 | Henry Fielding - 1876 - 506 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 well-seasoned... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Authors, English - 1877 - 238 pages
...in which I sit at this moment shall be reduced to a worse-furnished box, I shall be read with honor by those who never knew nor saw me, and whom I shall neither know nor see."' Book XT 1 1. Chap. I. * Mr. Buffon, from our disregard of thepossibilityof death within the four-and-twenty... | |
 | James Boswell, Andrew Erskine - Corsica (France : Region) - 1879 - 288 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." — " Tom Jones," book xiii., chap. I. Quoted by Gibbon, or his Editor.— ED. PREFACE To THE THIRD... | |
 | James Boswell - 1879 - 302 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." — " Tom Jones," book xiii., chap. I. Quoted by Gibbon, or his Editor.— ED. PREFACE To THE THIRD... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1882 - 700 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 well-seasoned... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1882 - 614 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 well-seasoned... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1883 - 214 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." With no less earnestness, after a mock apostrophe to Wealth, he appeals to Genius : " Teach me [he... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1887 - 1040 pages
...the little parlour ш 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 nur see." — Book xiii., chap. I. 129 the period which, as the most agreeable of his long life, \\as... | |
 | Ability - 1887 - 216 pages
...in which I sit at this moment shall be reduced to a worse furnished box, I shall be read with honor by those who never knew nor saw me, and whom I shall never know nor see!" B. 1708. LORD CHATHAM. D. 1778. THE Great Commoner, Pitt, afterwards less great... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1890 - 464 pages
...little parlour , in which I sit at this instant, shall be reduced to a worse furnished boi, 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... | |
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