 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1833 - 466 pages
...last, but his limbs became helpless from his frequent attacks of gout. As he himself expresses it, " Fortune, who scatters her gifts out of season, Though unkind to my limbs, has yet left me my reason."! As a friend of his, who only knew him in the last years of his life, speaks... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1833 - 450 pages
...last, but his limbs became helpless from bis frequent attacks of gout. As he himself expresses it, " Fortune, who scatters her gifts out of season, Though unkind to my limbs, has yet left me my reason."I As a friend of his, who only knew him in the last years of his life, speaks... | |
 | William Beckford - 1834 - 418 pages
...but his limbs became helpless from his frequent attacks of gout. As he himself expresses it, — " Fortune, who scatters her gifts out of season, " Though unkind to my limbs, has yet left me my reason." t ' A friend of his, who only knew him in the last years of his life, speaks... | |
 | William Beckford - 1836 - 416 pages
...last, but his limbs became helpless from his frequent attacks of gout. As he himself expresses it,— " Fortune, who scatters her gifts out of season, Though unkind to my limbs, has yet left me my reason." j A friend of his, who only knew him in the last years of his life, speaks... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - 1842 - 422 pages
...An estate and an earldom at seventy-four ) Had I sought them, or wish'd them, 'twould add one fear more, That of making a countess when almost fourscore....me my reason , And whether she lowers or lifts me, I'll try In the plain simple style 1 have lived in to die For ambition too humble, for meanness too... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - 1842 - 392 pages
...An estate and an earldom at seventy-four I Had I sought them, or wish'd them, 'twould add one fear more, That of making a countess when almost fourscore....season, Though unkind to my limbs, has still left me my reaîon; And whether she lowers or lifts me, I'll try In the plain simple style I have lived in to... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1842 - 596 pages
...last, but his limbs became helpless from his frequent attacks of gout: as he himself expresses it, " Fortune, who scatters her gifts out of season, Though unkind to my limbs, has yet left me my reason."c As a friend of his, who only knew him in the last years of his life, speaks... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1842 - 592 pages
...last, but his limbs became helpless from his frequent attacks of gout : as he himself expresses it, " Fortune, who scatters her gifts out of season, Though unkind to my limbs, has yet left me my raason."c As a friend of his, who only knew him in the last years of his life, speaks... | |
 | 1891 - 874 pages
...thirty years of it, was but one long stratagem to escape the gout, but my heart ever lay at Strawberry. Fortune, who scatters her gifts out of season, Though unkind to my limbs, had yet left me my reason. I lived much apart. You, who have ever moved in the great world, have been... | |
 | Isaac Jack Reeve - 1866 - 332 pages
...AN estate and an earldom at seventy-four ; Had I sought them, or wished them, 'twould add one fear more, — . That of making a countess, when almost...me my reason ; And, whether she lowers or lifts me, I'll try, In the plain simple style I have lived in, to die : For ambition too humble, for meanness... | |
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I sought them or wished them, 't would add one fear more, That of making a countess when almost four-score. But Fortune, who scatters her gifts out of season, Though unkind to my limbs, has still left me my reason... 
