 | Charles Lamb - 1913 - 484 pages
...firm in the world — the house of Boldero, Merryweather, Bosanquet, and Lacy. Esto perpetua / For the first day or two I felt stunned, overwhelmed....confinement. I could scarce trust myself with myself. It was like passing out of Time into Eternity — for it is a sort of Eternity for a man to have his... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1903 - 536 pages
...firm in the world — the house of Boldero, Merryweather, Bosanquet, and Lacy. Esto perpetua ! For the first day or two I felt stunned, overwhelmed....confinement. I could scarce trust myself with myself. It was like passing out of Time into Eternity — for it is a sort of Eternity for a man to have his... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1903 - 380 pages
...firm in the world — the house of Boldero, Merryweather, Bosanquet, and Lacy — £sto perpetua ! For the first day or two I felt stunned, overwhelmed....confinement. I could scarce trust myself with myself. It was like passing out of Time into Eternity — for it is a sort of Eternity for a man to have his... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - Literary Criticism - 1903 - 542 pages
...in the - world — the house of Boldero, Merryweather, Bosanquet, and Lacy. Esto perpetua ! •<For the first day or two I felt stunned, overwhelmed....felicity ; I was too confused to taste it sincerely, wandered about, thinking I was happy, and knowing that I was not. I was in the condition of a prisoner... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English literature - 1904 - 460 pages
...Merryweather, Bosanquet, and Lacy. Esto perpetua ! For the first day or two I felt stunned, overwhelmed. I 15 could only apprehend my felicity ; I was too confused...confinement. I could scarce trust myself with myself. It was 20 like passing out of Time into Eternity — for it is a sort of Eternity for a man to have... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - English literature - 1905 - 492 pages
...employers pensioned him and the long drudgery of the counting-house became a thing of the past: "For the first day or two I felt stunned — overwhelmed....confinement. I could scarce trust myself with myself. It was like passing out of Time into Eternity — for it is a sort of Eternity for a man to have his... | |
 | Walter Jerrold - Authors, English - 1905 - 148 pages
...upon the change from having to go daily to an office for thirty-six years to being suddenly free: For the first day or two I felt stunned, overwhelmed....confinement. I could scarce trust myself with myself. It was like passing out of Time into Eternity — for it is a sort of Eternity for a man to have all... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - English literature - 1905 - 492 pages
...employers pensioned him and the long drudgery of the counting-house became a thing of the past: "For the first day or two I felt stunned — overwhelmed....not. I was in the condition of a prisoner in the old Rastile, suddenly let loose after a forty years' confinement. I could scarce trust myself with myself.... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1909 - 444 pages
...the world — • the house of Boldero, Merryweather, Bosanquet, and Lacy. Esto perpetua0 ! 25 For the first day or two I felt stunned, overwhelmed....suddenly let loose after a forty years confinement. [ 30 could scarce trust myself with myself. It was like passing out of Time into Eternity — for it... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English essays - 1907 - 264 pages
...firm in the world — the house of Boldero, Merryweather, Bosanquet, and Lacy.5 Esto perpetua ! ' For the first day or two I felt stunned, overwhelmed....not. I was in the condition of a prisoner in the Old Bastile,7 suddenly let loose after a forty years' confinement. I could scarce trust myself with myself.... | |
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For the first day or two I felt stunned, overwhelmed. I could only apprehend my felicity ; I was too confused to taste it sincerely. I wandered about, thinking I was happy, and knowing that I was not. I was in the condition of a prisoner in the old Bastile,... 
