 | Temple Bailey - 1917 - 404 páginas
...more than once, the last paragraph of his diary. " ' And so I betake myself to that course which it is almost as much as to see myself go into my grave...accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me ! ' " Yet Pepys kept his sight all the rest of his life, and regretted, I fancy, more than once, that... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1918 - 986 páginas
...thing, I must endeavour to keep a margin in my book open, to add here and there a note in short-hand ic with my own hand. And so I betake myself to that course,...discomforts that will accompany my being blind, the God prepare me! SP JOHN DRYDEN Preface to Dryden and Davenant's " The Tempest " ENGLISH LITERATURE... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1918 - 370 páginas
...lived in and for it, and might well write these solemn words, when he closed that confidant for ever: "And so I betake myself to that course which is almost as much as to see myself go into the grave; for which, and all the discomforts that will accompany my being blind, the good God prepare... | |
 | Robert Lynd - 1920 - 256 páginas
...characteristic sentences : Or, if there be anything, which cannot be much, now my amours to Deb. are past, I must endeavour to keep a margin in my book open,...accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me. With these words the great book ends — the diary of one of the godliest and most lecherous of men.... | |
 | A. W. Ward, A. R. Waller - 1976 - 408 páginas
...every time that I take a pen in my hand; and therefore whatever comes of it I must f orbear. . . . And so I betake myself to that course, which is almost...which, and all the discomforts that will accompany my being1 blind, the good God prepare me ! SP We know that Pepys did not become blind, and that he lived... | |
 | Joseph Robson Tanner - 1920 - 100 páginas
...only 36 when the partial failure of his eyesight compelled him, to his great regret, to give it up, ' which is almost as much as to see myself go into my grave.' 2 Yet he lived to be 70 years of age, and although for part of his career he 1 On I January, 1660.... | |
 | Joseph Robson Tanner - 1920 - 100 páginas
...only 36 when the partial failure of his eyesight compelled him, to his great regret, to give it up, ' which is almost as much as to see myself go into my grave.'2 Yet he lived to be 70 years of age, and although for part of his career he 1 On 1 January,... | |
 | Richard Le Gallienne - 1923 - 366 páginas
...cannot "be much, now my amours to Deb. are past, and my eyes hindering me in almost all other pleasures, I must endeavour to keep a margin in my book open,...accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me! May 31, 1669. Modern Library of the World's Best Books COMPLETE LIST OF TITLES IN THE MODERN LIBRARY... | |
 | Harry Emerson Fosdick - 1923 - 232 páginas
...brought him up with a round turn. Blindness came upon him. "And so," he wrote as he closed his diary, "I betake myself to that course, which is almost as...accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me!" At last even Pepys had to wrestle with himself. One way or another life forces us to this primary test... | |
 | 1923 - 662 páginas
...May, 1669, when failing eyesight forced him. at last to abandon the keeping of his precious Diary. "And so I betake myself to that course, which is almost as much as to see myself go into the grave ; for which, and all the discomforts that will accompany my being blind, the good God prepare... | |
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I must endeavour to keep a margin in my book open, to add here and there a note in shorthand with my own hand. And so I betake myself to that course, which is almost as much as to see myself go into my grave : for which, and all the discomforts that will... 
