 | Charles Bucke - Great Britain - 1839 - 410 pages
...have come back, though I knew my own weakness so much that I durst not ; for I knew I should expose myself to the company. I did for a great while, with a perspective-glass, look upon the cliffs, in hopes I might have one sight of you. We are now out of... | |
 | Charles Bucke - Great Britain - 1839 - 406 pages
...have come back, though I knew my own weakness so much that I durst not ; for I knew I should expose myself to the company. I did for a great while, with a perspective-glass, look upon the cliffs, in hopes I might have one sight of you. We are now out of... | |
 | William Coxe - Great Britain - 1847 - 540 pages
...parted with you when I was by the water's side. I could have given my life to have como back, though 1 knew my own weakness so much that I durst not, for...great while, with a perspective glass, look upon the dill's , in hopes I might have had one sight of you. We are now out of sight of Margate, and I have... | |
 | Archibald Alison - Generals - 1852 - 518 pages
...though I knew my own weakness BO much that I durst not, for I know I should have exposed myself to tho company. I did for a great while, with a perspective glass, look upon tho cliffs, in hopes I might have had one sight of you. We are now out of sight of Margate, and I have... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1893 - 1008 pages
...given my life to have come back, though I knew my own weakness so much that I durst not, for I know I should have exposed myself to the company. I did for a great while with a perspective glass look out upon the cliffs, in hopes I might have had one sight of you. We are now out of sight of Margate,... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1874 - 1076 pages
...thought of her coldness or at any burst of her violent humour. He never left her without a pang. " I did for a great while with a perspective glass look upon the cliffs," he once wrote to her after setting out on a campaign, "in hopes that I might have had one sight of... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1882 - 504 pages
...her coldness, or at any burst of her violent humor. To the hist he never left her without a pang. " I did for a great while with a perspective glass look upon the cliffs," he once wrote to her after setting out on a campaign, " in hopes that I might have had one sight of... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1885 - 244 pages
...what a heavy heart I parted with you when I was by the water's side. I could have given my life to come back, though I knew my own weakness so much that...I have neither soul nor spirits, but I do at this moment suffer so much that nothing but being with you can recompense it. If you will be sensible of... | |
 | George Saintsbury - Generals - 1888 - 250 pages
...what a heavy heart I parted with you when I was by the water's side. I could have given my life to come back, though I knew my own weakness so much that...with a perspective glass, look upon the cliffs, in hones I might have had one sight of you. Wo are now out of sight of Margate, and I have neither soul... | |
 | Reginald Baliol Brett Esher (Viscount) - Great Britain - 1892 - 230 pages
...have come back, though I knew my own weakness so much that I durst not ; for I knew I should expose myself to the company. I did for a great while, with...glass, look upon the cliffs, in hopes I might have one sight of you." And from the Hague he declares : — " I do assure you, upon my soul, I had much... | |
| |
It is impossible to express with what a heavy heart I parted with you when I was by the water's side. I could have given my life to have come back, though I knew my own weakness so much that I durst not, for I knew I should have exposed myself to the... 
