 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 - 1805 - 512 pages
...which 1 sit at this moment shall be reduced to a worse furnished box, I shall be ' read with honourby those who never knew nor saw me, and whom I shall neither ' know nor see." Book xiii. ch. 1. observe that two causes, the abbreviation of time, and the failure of hope, will... | |
 | Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy - 1806 - 566 pages
...parlour in which I sit at this instant, shall be reduced to a worse furnished box, I shall be read, \vith 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 - 1808 - 302 pages
...little parlour, in which I set at this instant, shall be reduced to a worse furnished box, 1 shall be read, with honour, by those who never knew nor saw me^ and whom 1 shall neither know nor see. And thou, much plumper dame, whom no> airy forms uor phantoms of imagination... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1814 - 726 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 sec." Book xiii. chap. 1. * Mr. Buffon, from our disregard of the possibility^ death within the four... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 498 pages
...parlour in which I sit at ' this moment shall be reduced to a worse furnished box, I shall be read 1 with honour by those who never knew nor saw me, and whom I shall nci' ther know nor see." Book xiii. ch. 1. t Mr. Buffon, from our disregard of the possibility of death... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1820 - 388 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... | |
 | English literature - 1820 - 394 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 - 1821 - 846 pages
...the little parlour in which I ait 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 in a Treckschuyte in some Dutch canal the fat ufrow gelt,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 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." Hook xiii. chap 1. The present is a fleeting moment ; the past is no more ; and our prospect of futurity... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1826 - 594 pages
...tue little parlour in which I sit at this moment shall be reduced to a werse furnished box, I shrill be read with honour by those who never knew nor saw me, and whom I shall neither know nor see." Bookxiii.cn. 1. t Mr. Bulfon, from our disregard of the possibility of death within the fonr-and-twentv... | |
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