 He must create a solitude round his estate if he would avoid the face of reproach and derision. At Plymouth his destruction would be more than probable; at Exeter, inevitable.  The Letters of Junius - Page 139by Junius - 1791 - 403 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1891 - 462 pages
...imbecility, after you have lost the vigour, of the passions. "Your friends will ask, perhaps, Whither shall this unhappy old man retire ? Can he remain in the metropolis, where his life has been so often threatened, and his palace so often attacked ? If he returns to Woburn, scorn and mockery... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 504 pages
...imbecility, after you have lost the vigour, of the passions. " Your friends will ask, perhaps : Whither shall this unhappy old man retire ? Can he remain in the metropolis, where his life has been so often threatened, and his palace so often attacked ? If he returns to Woburn, scorn and mockery... | |
 | Arthur Waugh - 1897 - 364 pages
...imbecility, after you have lost the vigour of the passions. Your friends will ask, perhaps, Whither shall this unhappy old man retire ? Can he remain in the metropolis, where his life has been so often threatened, and his palace so often attacked ? If he returns to Woburn, scorn and mockery... | |
 | Charles William Colby - Great Britain - 1899 - 378 pages
...imbecility after you have lost the vigour of the passions. Your friends will ask, perhaps, whither shall this unhappy old man retire ? Can he remain in the metropolis, where his life has been so often threatened, and his palace so often attacked ? If he returns to Woburn, scorn and mockery... | |
 | Charles William Colby - Great Britain - 1899 - 398 pages
...imbecility after you have lost the vigour of the passions. Your friends will ask, perhaps, whither shall this unhappy old man retire ? Can he remain in the metropolis, where his life has been so often threatened, and his palace so often attacked ? If he returns to Woburu, scorn and mockery... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1902 - 450 pages
...imbecility after you have lost the vigor of the passions. Your friends will ask, perhaps, Whither shall this unhappy old man retire? Can he remain in the metropolis, where his life has been so often threatened and his palace so often attacked ? If he returns to Woburn [his country seat],... | |
 | Junius - English letters - 1907 - 172 pages
...imbecility, after you have lost the vigour of the passions. Your friends will ask, perhaps, Whither shall this unhappy old man retire? Can he remain in the metropolis, where his life has been so often threatened, and his palace so often attacked? If he returns to Wooburn, scorn and mockery... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1917 - 440 pages
...after you have lost the vigour, of the passions. ' ' Your friends will ask, perhaps, Whither shall this unhappy old man retire ? Can he remain in the metropolis, where his life has been so often threatened, and his palace so often attacked ? If he returns to Woburn, scorn and mockery... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1924 - 440 pages
...imbecility, after you have lost the vigour, of the passions. "Your friends will ask, perhaps, Whither shall this unhappy old man retire ? Can he remain in the metropolis, where his life has been so often threatened, and his palace so often attacked ? If he returns to Woburn, scorn and mockery... | |
 | English essays - 1769 - 750 pages
...imbecility, after y6u have loft the vigour of me paflions. Your friends will afk, perhaps, whither (hull this unhappy old man retire? Can he remain in the metropolis, where his life has been Co often threatened, and his palace fo often attacked ? If he returns to W n, fcorn and mockery await... | |
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