 | Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1788 - 444 pages
...of twenty years is interwoven with the texture of life. A friend may be often found and loft, but an old friend never can be found, and Nature has provided that he cannot eafily be loft. I have not forgotten the Davenants, though they feem to have forgotten me. I began... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 316 pages
...of twenty years is interwoven with the texture of life. A friend may be often found and lost, but an old friend never can be found, and nature has provided...early to tell them what they have commonly found to he true. I am sorry to hear of their building. I have always warned those whom I loved against that... | |
 | Elizabeth Frank - 1814 - 400 pages
...twenty years is interwoven with the texture of life. A friend may be often found and lost ; but an old friend never can be found, and Nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost. I have-not forgotten the Davenants, though they seem to have forgotten me. I began very early to tell... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1816 - 674 pages
...twenty years is interwoven with the texture of life. A Triend may be often found and lost ; but an old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost. • " 10. Incommunicative taciturnity neither imparts nor invites friendship, but reposes on a stubborn... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 256 pages
...of twenty years is interwoven with the texture of life. A friend may be often found and lost; but an old friend never can be found, and Nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost. 16. Incommunicative taciturnity neither imparts nor invites friendship, but reposes on a stubborn sufficiency... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 258 pages
...twenty years is interwoven with the texture of life. A friend may be often found and lost ; but an old friend never can be found, and Nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost. 16. Incommunicative taciturnity neither imparts nor invites friendship, but reposes on a stubborn sufficiency... | |
 | 1816 - 358 pages
...twenty years is interwoven with the texture of life. A friend may fce often found an,! lost ; hut an old friend never can be found, and Nature has provided that he ranhot easily be lost. I hnvc not forgotten the Davenants, though they seem to have forgotten me. 1... | |
 | 1821 - 426 pages
...twenty years is interwoven with the texture of life. A friend may be often found and lost ; but an old friend never can be found, and Nature has provided...of ostentatious expense. The frequency of death, to those who look upon it in the leisure of Arcadia, is very dreadful. We all know what it should teach... | |
 | Papirius Cursor - 1821 - 40 pages
...of twenty years is interwoven with the texture of life. A friend may be often found or lost ; but an old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cam:ot easily be lost. 1C. Incommunicative taciturnity neither imparts nor invites friendship, but... | |
 | 1827 - 292 pages
...twenty years, is interwoven with the texture of life. A friend may be often found and lost, but an old friend never can be found, and nature has- provided...those whom I loved, against that mode of ostentatious waste. You seem to mention Lord Kilmurry, as a stranger. We were at his house in Cheshire ; and he... | |
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... communicated or some benefit conferred, some petty quarrel, or some slight endearment. Esteem of great powers, or amiable qualities newly discovered, may embroider a day or a week ; but a friendship of twenty years is interwoven with the texture of... 
