 | Cabinet - 1824 - 440 strani
...overwhelmed me, but for the continual goodness and protection of Providence. I was, however, but then half through my journey, and all those dangers which...crown of laurels I had too rashly woven for myself. I saw Strates expecting me on the side of the hill. " Strates," said I, " faithful squire ! come and... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1824 - 616 strani
...•very apt to feel, and exclaim, with Bruce, when he stood at the Fountains of the Nile, — ' I find despondency gaining ground fas.t upon me, and blasting...crown of laurels I had too rashly -woven for myself: I begin, in my sorrow, to treat the inquiry .about the source of the Nile, as a violent effort of a... | |
 | 1824 - 612 strani
...very apt to feel, and exclaim, with Bruce, when he stood at the Fountains of the Nile, — ' I find despondency gaining ground fast upon me, and blasting...crown of laurels I had too rashly woven for myself: I begin, in my sorrow, to treat the inquiry about the source of the Nile, as a violent effort of a... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 626 strani
...thousand years, had failed in their attempts ; but it was a short-lived triumph. ' 1 found,' says he, ' a despondency gaining ground fast upon me, and blasting...crown of laurels I had too rashly woven for myself.' M. Beltrami exults in a somewhat different style : — ' Oh ! what were the thoughts which passed through... | |
 | 1828 - 598 strani
...thousand years, had failed in their attempts ; but it was a short-lived triumph. ' 1 found,' says he, ' a despondency gaining ground fast upon me, and blasting...crown of laurels I had too rashly woven for myself.' M. Beltrami exults in a somewhat different style : — ' Oh ! what were the thoughts which passed through... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 608 strani
...thousand years, had failed in their attempts ; but it was a short-lived triumph. ' 1 found,' says he, ' a despondency gaining ground fast upon me, and blasting the crown of laurels 1 had too rashly woven for myself.' M. Beltrami exults in a somewhat different style : — ' Oh ! what... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 608 strani
...thousand years, had failed in their attempts; but it was a short-lived trinmph. ' 1 found,' says he, ' a despondency gaining ground fast upon me, and blasting the crown of laurels 1 had too rashly woven for myself.' M. Beltrami exults in a somewhat different style : — • ' Oh... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 strani
...overwhelmed me, but for the continual goodness and protection of Providence ; I was, however, then but half through my journey, and all those dangers...crown of laurels I had too rashly woven for myself." He now bent his thoughts on his return to his native country, and arrived at Gondar 19th of November... | |
 | James Augustus St. John - 1831 - 336 strani
...overwhelmed me but for the continual goodness and protection of Providence ; I was, however but then half through my journey, and all those dangers which...crown of laurels I had too rashly woven for myself." Though a mere private Briton, I triumphed This was extremely natural. He had proposed to himself an... | |
 | 1831 - 320 strani
...overwhelmed me, but for the continual goodness and protection of Providence. I was, however, but then half through my journey, and all those dangers which...crown of laurels I had too rashly woven for myself." Outward beauty is, in too many cases, a very deceitful criterion of real worth. We have already alluded... | |
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I was but a few minutes arrived at the sources of the Nile, through numberless dangers and sufferings, the least of which would have overwhelmed me, but for the continual goodness and protection of Providence ; I was, however, but then half through my... 
