 | Annette Brown Hopkins - 1915 - 824 pagina’s
...when the infirmities of age have not sapped our faculties. This world, my dear Charles, was a scene in which I never much delighted. I was not formed for...reason told me I should have blushed to have done otherwise. — It was a scene of dissimulation, of restraint, of disappointment. I leave it to enter... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pagina’s
...finally dies while still a young man, after telling a friend that "this world . . . was a scene in which I never much delighted. I was not formed for...bustle of the busy, nor the dissipation of the gay: ... I leave it to enter on that state, which I have learned to believe, is replete with the genuine... | |
 | Giuliano Baioni - 1990 - 268 pagina’s
...sentimentale: This world [...] was a scene in which I never much delighted. I was not formedfor thè bustle of the busy, nor the dissipation of the gay; a thousand things occured where I blushed for the impropriety of my conduci when I thought on the world, though my reason... | |
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There is a certain dignity in retiring from life at a time, when the infirmities of age have not sapped our faculties. This world, my dear Charles, was a scene in which I never much delighted. I was not formed for the bustle of the busy, nor the dissipation... 
