 Since the last Easter I have reformed no evil habit, my time has been unprofitably spent, and seems as a dream that has left nothing behind. My memory grows confused, and I know not how the days pass over me.  Prayers and Meditations - Page 48by Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 192 pagesFull view - About this book
 | ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 pages
...regulate my life by his laws, I am almost afraid to renew my resolutions." " Since the last Easter I have reformed no evil habit; my time has been unprofitably...not how the days pass over me. Good Lord, deliver me !" "July 2.—I paid Mr. Simpson ten guineas, which he had formerly lent me in my necessity, and for... | |
 | Alexander Main - Literary Criticism - 1874 - 480 pages
...regulate my life by his laws, I am almost afraid to renew my resolutions." " Since the last Easter I have reformed no evil habit; my time has been unprofitably...not how the days pass over me. Good Lord, deliver me !" "July 2.—I paid Mr. Simpson ten guineas, which he had formerly lent me in my necessity, and for... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 602 pages
...remarkable, and shew that he laboured under a severe depression of spirits. ' Since the last Easter I have reformed no evil habit; my time has been unprofitably...not how the days pass over me. Good Lord, deliver me ! '" • Prayers and Meditations, p. 6l. b Joseph Simpson, Esq. mentioned in p. 188. He wrote a tragedy... | |
 | Alexander Main - Literary Criticism - 1874 - 482 pages
...regulate my life by his laws, I am almost afraid to renew my resolutions." " Since the last Easter I have reformed no evil habit ; my time has been unprofitably...nothing behind. My memory grows confused, and I know not h<m> the days pass over me. Good Lord, deliver me ! " "July 2. — I paid Mr. Simpson ten guineas,... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...from the heat, or their cloth from the dust." In 1765, Johnson wrote in his diary on Easter Day, " My memory grows confused, and I know not how the days pass over me. Good Lord, deliver me!" His Shakespeare appeared in that year, and in the next, aged fifty-eight, he was confined to his room... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1878 - 144 pages
...of the last year." Easter, 1765, came, and found him still in the same state. " My time," he wrote, "has been unprofitably spent, and seems as a dream...confused, and I know not how the days pass over me." Happily for his honor, the charm which held him captive was at length broken by no gentle or friendly... | |
 | Henry Morley - English literature - 1879 - 720 pages
...literary parties. In 1765 Johnson's mind suffered so much that he wrote in his diary on Easter day: " My memory grows confused, and I know not how the days pass over me. Good Lord deliver me ! " In that year his edition of Shakespeare appeared, and he wrote to Joseph Warton, that, as he felt... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1880 - 498 pages
...of the last year." Easter 1765 came, and found him still in the same state. " My time," he wrote, " has been unprofitably spent, and seems as a dream...confused, and I know not how the days pass over me." Happily for his honour, the charm which held him captive was at length broken by no gentle or friendly... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1860 - 514 pages
...of the last year." Easter 1765 came, and found him still in the same state, " My time," he wrote, " has been unprofitably spent, and seems as a dream...confused, and I know not how the days pass over me." Happily for his honour, the charm which held him captive was at length broken by no gentle or friendly... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1880 - 846 pages
...become of the last year." Easter 176o came, and found him still in the same state. "My time," he wrote, "has been unprofitably spent, and seems as a dream...confused, and I know not how the days pass over me." Happily for his honor, the charm which held him captive was at length broken by no gentle or friendly... | |
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