 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
 | Autobiographies - 1830 - 336 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 ace." Book xiii. cha|> 1. The present is a fleeting moment ; the past is no more ; and our prospect... | |
 | Henry Fielding - English literature - 1832
...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 - 1837 - 848 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." Book xiii. ch. 1. our booksellers, and the measure of their liberality is the least ambiguous test... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1837 - 848 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." Book xiii. ch. 1. our booksellers, and the measure of their liberality is the least ambiguous test... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Historians - 1839 - 496 pages
...the little parlour in which I ģil 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," Book xiii. chap.l. success. Perhaps the golden mediocrity of my fortune has contributed to fortify... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 396 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." Book xiii. chap. 1 . " Mr. Button, from our disregard of the possihility of death within the four-and-twenty... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1840
...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." Book xiii. chap. i. I shall soon enter into the period which, as the most agreeable of his long life,... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1845
...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 - 1846 - 381 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." Book xiii. ch. 1. mon success. Perhaps the golden mediocrity of my fortune has contributed to fortify... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 381 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." Book xiii. eh. 1. mon success. Perhaps the golden mediocrity of my fortune has contributed to fortify... | |
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