 | 1863 - 622 strani
...favour. Still, however, the career of gaiety and notoriety soon palled upon me ; I seemed to drift aboat without aim or object, at the mercy of every breeze;...and tried to form other attachments : but my heart wi.ulil not hold on; it would continually rucur to what it had lost: and whenever there was a pau.-e... | |
 | 1861 - 784 strani
...seemed to give a torn to my whole character, and throw some clouds into my disposition, which have ever since hung about it. * * * * I seemed to drift...sink into dismal dejection. For years I could not talk on the subject of this hopeless regret ; I could not even mention her name ; but her image was... | |
 | 1862 - 608 strani
...seemed to give a turn to my whole character, and throw some clouds into my disposition, which have ever since hung about it. ... I seemed to drift about...sink into dismal dejection. For years I could not talk on the subject of this hopeless regret; I could not even mention her name; but her image was continually... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1862 - 602 strani
...seemed to give a turn to my whole character, and throw some clouds into my disposition, which have ever since hung about it I seemed to drift about without...sink into dismal dejection. For years I could not talk on the subject of this hopeless regret ; I could not even mention her name ; but her image was... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1862 - 482 strani
...early taste of public favor. Still, however, the career of gaiety and notoriety soon palled upon me. I seemed to drift about without aim or object, at...sink into dismal dejection. For years I could not talk on the subject of this hopeless regret ; I could not even mention her name ; but her image was... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1863 - 736 strani
...early taste of public favour. Still, however, the career of gaiety and notoriety soon palled upon me ; I seemed to drift about without aim or object, at...sink into dismal dejection. For years I could not talk on the subject of this hopeless regret: I could not even mention her name : but her image was... | |
 | Anonymous - 1863 - 602 strani
...early taste of public favour. Still, however, the career of gaiety and notoriety soon palled upon me ; I seemed to drift about without aim or object, at...sink into dismal dejection. For years I could not talk on the subject of this hopeless regret : I could not even mention her name : but her image was... | |
 | 1870 - 406 strani
...the course of this attachment, and the anguish ' that attended its catastrophe, secerned to give 1 turn to my whole character, and threw some ' clouds...sink into dismal dejection. For years, I could ' not talk on the subject of this hopeless regret — 'I could not even mention her name — but her ' image... | |
 | Addison Peale Russell - 1875 - 416 strani
...public, and gave me celebrity, as an original work was something remarkable and uncommon in America I seemed to. drift about without aim or object, at...my heart would not hold on ; it would continually roam to what it had lost ; and whenever there was a pause in the hurry of novelty and excitement, I... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, George Palmer Putnam, William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 172 strani
...feelings at this time ; he admits that he made an effort to form other attachments, but, he says, " my heart would not hold on, it would continually recur to what it had lost." But for this dejection it would be strange, after his extraordinary success, that he should still have... | |
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I seemed to drift about without aim or object, at the mercy of every breeze; my heart wanted anchorage. I was naturally susceptible, and tried to form other attachments, but my heart would not hold on; it would continually recur to what it had lost; and... 
