 | Charlotte Smith - 1793 - 498 páginas
...faid to himfelf — " How unworthy, how uomanly are my complaints, when I compare my own fituation with that of this poor old man, who, trembling on the verge of life, feems to have none of its common neceflaries i yet perhaps has been difabled from. acquiring them by... | |
 | Charlotte Smith - 1820 - 364 páginas
...detached him from the recollection of his own miseries ; and he said to himself: — How unworthy^ how unmanly are my complaints, when I compare my own situation...the service of what is called his country, that is, in fighting the battles of its politicians ; and having been deprived of his leg to preserve the balance... | |
 | Charlotte Smith - 2002 - 596 páginas
...detached him from the recollection of his own miseries; and he said to himself—"How unworthy, how unmanly are my complaints, when I compare my own situation...this poor old man, who, trembling on the verge of King Lear, IV. vii.39-42.What Smith calk the "preceding exclamation" actually follows the lines she... | |
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... lost his limb in the service of what is called his country, that is, in fighting the battles of its politicians ; and having been deprived of his leg to preserve the balance of Europe, has not found in the usual asylum a place of rest, to make him... 