 | English instructor - 1801 - 272 Seiten
...with long expectation and confinement , and felt what kind of sickness of the heart it was which arise from hope deferred. Upon looking nearer I saw him...and I was forced to go on with another part of the pertrait. He was sitting upon the ground upon a little straw , in the furthest corner of his dungeon... | |
 | Sydney Melmoth - 1805 - 368 Seiten
...groups in it did but distract me — >-»-I took a single captive, and having first shut him Op in a dungeon, I then looked through the twilight of his...sitting upon the ground, upon a little straw, in the farthest corner of his dungeon, which was alternately his chair and bed: a little calendar of small... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1805 - 430 Seiten
...having first shut him up in his dungeon, I then looked through the twilight of his grated door to Uke his picture. I beheld his body half wasted away with...sitting upon the ground upon a little straw, in the farthest corner of his dungeon, which was alternately his chair and bed ; a little calendar of small... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1805 - 500 Seiten
...wasted away with long expectation and confinement, and felt what kind of sickness of the heart it is which arises from hope deferred. Upon looking nearer,...forced to go on with another part of the portrait." Where is that being who can read unmoved this pathetic description ? where is the heart unaffected... | |
 | Benjamin West - 1820 - 70 Seiten
...looked through the twilight of his grated door, to take his picture. " I beheld his body half-wasted away with long expectation and confinement, and felt...sitting upon the ground upon a little straw, in the farthest corner of his dungeon, which was alternately his chair and bed : a little calender of small... | |
 | Abner Alden - 1814 - 222 Seiten
...confinement, and felt what kind of sickness of the heait it was, which arises from hop* deferred. II. Upon looking nearer, I saw him pale and feverish :...here my heart began to bleed—- and I was forced logo on with another part of the portrait. He was sitting upon the ground upon a little straw, in the... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 528 Seiten
...confinement, and felt what kind of " sickness of the heart it is, which arises from hope defer" red. Upon looking nearer, I saw him pale and feverish :...lattice. His children But here my heart began to " bleed, apd I was forced to go on with another part of the " portrait. " He was sitting upon the ground, in... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - 424 Seiten
...not once fanned his blood— i-'he had seen no sun, no moon, in all that time— n'or had the vdice of friend or kinsman breathed through his lattice....sitting upon the ground, upon a little straw, in the farthest corner-of'hk dungeon, which was alternately his chair and fae<I. A little calendar of small... | |
 | William Scott - 1817 - 416 Seiten
...wasted away, with long expet* tation and confinement ; and felt what kind cf sickness of the heart it is which arises from hope deferred. Upon looking nearer,...the portrait. He was sitting upon the ground, upon a liltle straw, in the farthest corner of his dungeon, whish was alternately his chair and bed. A little... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 398 Seiten
...feverish. In thirty years the western breeze had not once fanned his blood — he had seen no SUB, no moon, in all that time — nor had the voice of...part of the portrait. He was sitting upon the ground, upbn a little straw, in the farthest corner of his dungeon, which was alternately his chair and bed.... | |
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I took a single captive, and, having first shut him up in his dungeon, I then looked through the twilight of his grated door to take his picture. I beheld his body half wasted away with long expectation and confinement, and felt what kind of sickness... 
