 | Izaak Walton, Thomas Zouch - Authors, English - 1796 - 640 pages
...; every " other tree bloflbms, and I wither: I grow older and not better; my " ftrength diminifheth and my load grows heavier, and yet I would fain " be or do fomething, but. that I cannot tell what, is no wonder in this " time of. my fadnefs: For to choofe... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1799 - 402 pages
...and I wither; I grow older, and not better; " my strength diminisheth, and my load grows hea" vier; and yet I would fain be or do something; but " that I canno'f Wll'what is no wonder in this time of " mysadhe;s'; fortochuse is to do, but to be no part... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1805 - 422 pages
...fomething; but that I cannot " tell what, is no wonder in this time of " my fadnefs ; for to choofe is to do ; but " to be no part of any body is as to be no" thing : and fo I am, and fhall fo judge " myfelf, unlefs I could be fo incorpo" rated into a part... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1805 - 438 pages
...ftrength diminifheth, and my load " grows heavier ; and yet I would fain "b« " be or do fomething; but that I cannot " tell what, is no wonder in this time of " my fadnefs; for to choofe is to do ; but " to be no part of any body is as to be no" thing: and fo I am,... | |
 | Izaak Walton - Fore-edge paintings - 1824 - 418 pages
...diminisheth, and my load grows heavier; " and yet I would fain be or do something ; but that I can" not tell what, is no wonder in this time of my sadness...be no part of any body is " as to be nothing; and sol am, and shall so judge myself, " unless I could be so incorporated into a part of the world, "... | |
 | Izaak Walton - Fore-edge paintings - 1824 - 422 pages
...every other tree " blossoms, and I wither: I grow older, and not better; " my strength diminisheth, and my load grows heavier; " and yet I would fain be or do something; but that I can" not tell what, is no wonder in this time of my sadness; " for to choose is to do; but to be no... | |
 | Susan Ferrier - 1824 - 380 pages
...But Gertrude only felt what all persons of acute sensibility have felt in similar situations, that " to be no part of any body, is as to be nothing." CHAPTER III. Avaunt ! and quit nay sight .' — let the earth hide thee ! MACBETH. THE dreary monotony... | |
 | English literature - 1836 - 440 pages
...But Gertrude only felt what all persons of acute sensibility have felt in similar situations, that "to be no part of any body, is as to be nothing." CHAPTER LV. " A Taunt ! and quit my sight ! — let the earth hide MACnETH. THE dreary monotony of... | |
 | English literature - 1837 - 612 pages
...: evorv other tree blossoms, and I wither; 1 £row ohier, and not better; my strength diminislieth, and my load grows heavier; and yet I would fain be or do something ; hut that 1 cannot tell what, is no wonder in this time of my sadness ; for to choose is to do ; but... | |
 | John Donne - Sermons - 1839 - 598 pages
...exercise for my swimming. Therefore I would fain do something; but that I cannot tell what, is no wonder. For to choose, is to do : but to be no part of any body, is to be nothing. At most, the greatest persons, are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and... | |
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Therefore I would fain do something but that I cannot tell what is no wonder. For to choose is to do; but to be no part of any body is to be nothing. 
