 I write by the coach the more speedily and effectually to prevent your coming hither. Perhaps by my fame (and I hope it is so) you mean only that celebrity which is a consideration of a much lower kind. I care for that only as it may give pleasure to...  Blackwood's Magazine - Side 4221862Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | 1861 - 522 sider
...been always a zealous adherent will, I trust, teach him to forgive insults he has not deserved. . . . My fame is as unsullied as snow, or I should think...expression on my part during twenty years of familiar talk. Nevcr did I oppose your will, or oppose your wish ; nor can your unmerited severity itself lessen my... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1861 - 410 sider
...of a much lower kind. I care for that only as it may give pleasure to my husband and his friends. " Farewell, dear Sir, and accept my best wishes. You...talk. Never did I oppose your will, or control your ivish; nor can your unmerited severity itself lessen my regard ; but till you have changed your opinion... | |
 | 1861 - 820 sider
...consideration of a much lower kind. I care for that only as it may give pleasure to my husband and his friends. Farewell, dear Sir, and accept my best wishes. You...have always commanded my esteem, and long enjoyed the fruit* of a friendship never infringed by one harsh expression on uiy part during twenty years of familiar... | |
 | 1861 - 606 sider
...pleasure to her husband and his friends. This letter, with its words of kindly farewell to one who had " long enjoyed the fruits of a friendship never infringed by one harsh expression " on her part, shamed Johnson into a milder mood. He wrote back to wish her every blessing consequent on... | |
 | 1861 - 816 sider
...pleasure to her husband and his friends. This letter, with its words of kindly farewell to one who had "long enjoyed the fruits of a friendship never infringed by one harsh expression" on her part, shamed Johnson into a milder mood. Hewroto back to wish her every blessing consequent on... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1861 - 406 sider
...resents with firmness and retorts with dignity. The sentences I have printed in italics speak volumes. " Never did I oppose your will, or control your wish, nor can your unmitigated severity itself lessen my regard." There is a shade of submissiveness in her reply, yet,... | |
 | 1862 - 1092 sider
...enow, or I should think it unwortby of him who must henceforth protect it. . . . Farewell, dear eir, and accept my best wishes. You have always commanded my esteem, and long enjoyed the fiuits of a friendship, never infringed by one harsh s expression on my part, dudng twenty years of... | |
 | James Philemon Holcombe - 1866 - 548 sider
...consideration of a much lower kind. I care for that only as it may give pleasure to my husband and his friends. Farewell, dear sir, and accept my best wishes. You...control your wish ; nor can your unmerited severity Dr. Johnson to Mrs. Pioszi— Response. itself lessen my regard ; but until you have changed your opinion... | |
 | 1868 - 850 sider
...their confidential intimacy had not been previously broken off. • ' Never,' she says in her reply, ' did I oppose your will, or control your wish, nor can your unmitigated severity itself lessen my regard.' To complete the absurdity of the position, the lexicographer,... | |
 | 1868 - 608 sider
...their confidential intimacy had not been previously broken off. ' Never,' she says in her reply, ' did I oppose your will, or control your wish, nor can your unmitigated severity itself lessen my regard.' To complete the absurdity of the position, the lexicographer,... | |
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