 I am so far from growing used to mankind by living amongst them, that my natural ferocity and wildness does but every day grow worse. They tire me, they fatigue me ; I don't know what to do with them ; I don't know what to say to them; I fling open the...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 111873Full view - About this book
 | 1868 - 800 pages
...another." " I don't know what to do with them : I don't know what to say to them ; I fling open the windows and fancy I want air, and when I get by myself I undress...in my pockets, in my plaits, and on my shoulders," Horace cries with a wail. Perhaps Sir Robert, not so dainty, felt it less. But he felt the tortures... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1842 - 594 pages
...me ; I don't know what to do with them ; I don't know what to say to them; I fling open the windows and fancy I want air ; and when I get by myself, I...fatigue worse in the country than in town, because one can avoid it there, and has more resources ; but it is there too. I fear 'tis growing old ; but... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1842 - 592 pages
...fatigue me; I don't know what to do with them; I don't know what to say to them; I fling open the windows and fancy I want air; and when I get by myself, I...fatigue worse in the country than in town, because one can avoid it there, and has more resources; but it is there too. I fear 'tis growing old ; but... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...; I don't know what to do with them ; I don't know what to say to them ; I fling open the windows, and fancy I want air; and when I get by myself, I...fatigue worse in the country than in town, because one can avoid it there, and has more resources ; but it is there too. I fear 'tis growing old, but... | |
 | John Timbs - 1864 - 378 pages
...windows, and fancy I want air ; and when I get by myself,.! undress myself, and seem to have a bad people in my pockets, in my plaits, and on my shoulders ! I indeed find this fatigue worse in country than in town, because one can avoid it there, and has more resources ; but it is there too.... | |
 | 1868 - 850 pages
...outlines of human form," who " brandish their kaives in act to carve," and look '-like open the windows and fancy I want air, and when I get by myself I undress...in my pockets, in my plaits, and on my shoulders," Horace cries with a wail. Perhaps Sir Robert, not so dainty, felt it less. But he felt the tortures... | |
 | 1868 - 802 pages
...another." " I don't know what to do with them : I don't know what to say to them ; I fling open the windows and fancy I want air, and when I get by myself I undress...in my pockets, in my plaits, and on my shoulders," Horace cries with a wail. Perhaps Sir Robert, not so dainty, felt it less. But he felt the tortures... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...me ; I don't know what to do with them ; I don't know what to say to them. I fling open the windows and fancy I want air ; and when I get by myself, I...seem to have had people in my pockets, in my plaits (the folds of my dress), and on my shoulders. I fear 'tis growing old ; but I literally seem to have... | |
 | 1868 - 824 pages
...I don't know what to do with them ; I don't know what to say to them; I fling open the windows find fancy I want air, and when I get by myself I undress...seem to have had people in my pockets, in my plaits, nnd on my shoulders," Horace cries with a wail. Perhaps Sir Robert, not FO dainty, felt it less. But... | |
 | Margaret Oliphant Oliphant - 1869 - 450 pages
...another." " I don't know what to do with them : I don't know what to say to them ; I fling open the windows and fancy I want air, and when I get by myself I undress...in my pockets, in my plaits, and on my shoulders," Horace cries, with a wail. Perhaps Sir Robert, not so dainty, felt it less. But he felt the tortures... | |
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