 | John Nichol - Poets, English - 1902 - 700 pages
...comfortable. When I am among women, I have evil thoughts, malice, c. li. K spleen ; I cannot apeak, or be silent ; I am full of suspicions, and therefore...listen to nothing ; I am in a hurry to be gone.... I must absolutely get over this — but how ? " In a fine passage of a letter to his relatives in America,... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1873 - 588 pages
...learn. My hands are in my pockets ; I am free from all suspicion and comfortable. \Vhen I am among women I have evil thoughts, malice, spleen ; I cannot speak...therefore listen to nothing ; I am in a hurry to be gone." At Icolmkill he met with a curious old schoolmaster — "an ignorant little man, but reckoned very... | |
 | William James Dawson, Coningsby Dawson - Letter-writing - 1908 - 304 pages
...— my hands are in my pockets, I am free from all suspicion and comfortable. When I am among women, I have evil thoughts, malice, spleen — I cannot...listen to nothing — I am in a hurry to be gone. You must be charitable and put all this perversity to my being disappointed since my boyhood. Yet with... | |
 | Arthur Symons - English literature - 1909 - 362 pages
...learn; my hands are in my pockets, I am free from all suspicion, and comfortable. When I am among women, I have evil thoughts, malice, spleen ; I cannot speak or be silent ; I am full of suspicion, and therefore listen to nothing; I am in a hurry to be gone. ... I must absolutely get over... | |
 | Arthur Symons - Literary Criticism - 1909 - 372 pages
...learn; my hands are in my pockets, I am free from all suspicion, and comfortable. When I am among women, I have evil thoughts, malice, spleen ; I cannot speak or be silent ; I am full of suspicion, and therefore listen to nothing; I am in a hurry to be gone. ... I must absolutely get over... | |
 | Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - English literature - 1911 - 488 pages
...learn; my hands are in my pockets, I am free from all suspicion, and comfortable. When I am among women, I have evil thoughts, malice, spleen; I cannot speak, or be silent; I am full of suspicion, and therefore listen to nothing; I am in a hurry to be gone. You must be charitable, and... | |
 | Alfred Turner - English literature - 1916 - 276 pages
...; my hands are in my pockets ; I am free from all suspicion and comfortable. When I am among women, I have evil thoughts, malice, spleen ; I cannot speak...therefore listen to nothing. I am in a hurry to be gone." More than this he is not content with expressing his aversion to women, but goes the length of laughing... | |
 | Byron Johnson Rees - Literary Collections - 1919 - 586 pages
...learn; my hands are in my pockets, I am free from all suspicion, and comfortable. When I am among women, I have evil thoughts, malice, spleen ; I cannot speak,...therefore listen to nothing; I am in a hurry to be gone. You must be charitable, and put all this perversity to my being disappointed since my boyhood. Yet... | |
 | John Keats - 1923 - 256 pages
...— my hands are in my pockets, I am free from all suspicion and comfortable. When I am among women, I have evil thoughts, malice, spleen — I cannot...therefore listen to nothing— I am in a hurry to be gone. You must be charitable and put all this perversity to my being disappointed since my boyhood. Yet with... | |
 | Gamaliel Bradford - Authors - 1924 - 376 pages
...dominant." 52 In general he does not find himself at ease in their society: "When I am among women, I have evil thoughts, malice, spleen, I cannot speak,...therefore listen to nothing, I am in a hurry to be gone." B8 As to love, before the full tempest struck him he was uncertain and mistrustful. Marriage might... | |
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Is it not extraordinary ? — when among men, I have no evil thoughts, no malice, no spleen; I feel free to speak or to be silent; I can listen, and from every one I can learn ; my hands are in my pockets, I am free from all suspicion, and comfortable.... 
