 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 - 1891 - 446 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. i. 2 M. Buffon, from our disregard of the possibility of death within the four-andtwenty... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 446 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. i. a M. Buffon, from our disregard of the possibility of death within the four-andtwenty... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 454 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. i. 2 M. Buffon, from our disregard of the possibility of death within the four-andtwenty... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 446 pages
...which I sit at this moment shall be reduced to a worse furnished box, I shall be read with honour t/y those who never knew nor saw me, and whom I shall neither know nor sec." Book xiii. chap. i. 2 M. Buffon, from our disregard of the possibility of death within the four-andtwenty... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1893
...parlour in which I sit at this instant shall be reduced to a worse furnished box, I shall be read with Ml 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 cloathe ; whom the well-seasoned... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1895 - 232 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." Bnok XIIl. Chap. I. * Mr. Buffon, from our disregard of the possibility of death within the four-and-twenty... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1898 - 366 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 xiii, ch. 1. 189 23. about fifteen years. Gibbon adds this note : " From our disregard of the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Historians - 1900 - 360 pages
...parlour in which I sit at this moment [instant] shall be reduced to a worse lurnished box, I shall be read with honour by those who never knew nor saw me, and whom I shall neither know nor see" (Book xiiL, ch. i.)— GIBBON. [" A just estimate of greatness, and the assurance of immortal fame,... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1900 - 752 pages
...in which I sit at this instant 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. And thou, much plumper dame, whom no airy forms nor phantoms of imagination clothe ; whom the well-seasoned... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1902
...little parlour in which I sit at this instant shall be reduced to a worse furnished [260] box, I shall be read with honour by those who never knew nor saw me, and whom I shall neither know uor see. And thou, much plumper dame, whom no airy forms nor phantoms of imagination cloathe ; whom... | |
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