 | 1885 - 224 Seiten
...lady, and keeps me awake with his screeching lamentations. (e.) I will die in the last ditch. (_/!) The storm has gone over me, and I lie like one of...those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered around me. 3. Identify the following passages, and add a short note on any difficulties or allusions... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1885 - 728 Seiten
...wit and splendour of his best days ; but he says, " I have nothing to hope or fear in this world ; the storm has gone over me, and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane scattered about me. I am stripped of my honours ; I am torn up by the roots." He speaks of " the sorrows... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1885 - 434 Seiten
...brother and his son. Retirement from Parliament. LAST YEARS. ' The storm has gone over me, and I He like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered around me.' Letter to a Noble Lord. 1795 Thoughts and Details on Scarcity. Letter to a Noble Lord.... | |
 | Kate Sanborn - 1886 - 230 Seiten
...me have gone before me. They who should have been to me as posterity, are in the place of ancestors. The storm has gone over me, and I lie like one of...hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honors ; I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth.' " Edward Everett once gave this... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 592 Seiten
...and whose wisdom it behoves us not at all to dispute, has 1 \t si n:vn aliam venture fata Neroni, &c. ordained it in another manner, and (whatever my querulous...might suggest) a far better. The storm has gone over me-jjmd.I-lie like one of those old oak a which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped... | |
 | 1891 - 826 Seiten
...hour his physical powers rapidly declined. He refused to be made a peer, saying: "I am a desolate man. The storm has gone over me, and I lie like one of...hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honors; I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth. I am alone. I have none to meet... | |
 | Henry Washington Hilliard - 1892 - 472 Seiten
...manner, and, whatever my querulous weakness may suggest, a far better. The storm has gone over me ; I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honors ; I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth ! There, prostrate there I must... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1892 - 400 Seiten
...on Policy of Allies. 1794 Deaths of his brother and his son. Retirement from Parliament. LAST YEARS. 'The storm has gone over me, and I lie like one of...those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered around me.' Letter to a Noble Lord. 1795 'Thoughts and Details on Sc0rclt*' Letter to a Noble Lord.... | |
 | Henry Washington Hilliard - 1892 - 474 Seiten
...he said : " But the Disposer whose power we are little able to resist, and whose wisdom it behooves us not at all to dispute, has ordained it in another manner, and, whatever my querulous weakness may suggest, a far better. The storm has gone over me ; I lie like one of those old oaks which the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1896 - 338 Seiten
...easily supplied. But a Disposer whose power we are little able to resist, and whose wisdom it behoves us not at all to dispute, has ordained it in another...and (whatever my querulous weakness might suggest) a 10 far better. The storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane... | |
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The storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honors, I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth. 
