 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...for the continuance of any thing that could be the occasion of so much pleasure to me. Low spirits are my true and faithful companions; they get up with...and are the prettiest insipid company in the world. However, when you come, I believe they must undergo the fate of all humble companions, and be discarded.... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 320 pages
...for the continuance of any thing that could be the occasion of so much pleasure to me. Low spirits are my true and faithful companions ; they get up...and are the prettiest insipid company in the world. However, when you come, I beheve they must undergo the fate of all humble companions, and be discarded.... | |
 | John Evans - 1817 - 610 pages
...divine strains of poesy. To his friend, West, however, he makes this sad confession : — " Low spirits are my true and faithful companions ; they get up with me, go to bed with me, make journeys, and return as I do; nay, and pay visits, and will even affect to be jocose, and force a feeble laugh with... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 394 pages
...for the continuance of any thing that could be the occasion of so much pleasure to me. Low spirits are my true and faithful companions ; they get up...and are the prettiest insipid company in the world. However, when you come, I believe th«y must undergo the fate of all humble companions, and be discarded.... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Poets, English - 1820 - 492 pages
...for the continuance of any thing that could be the occasion of so much pleasure to me. Low spirits are my true and faithful companions; they get up with...and are the prettiest insipid company in the world. However, when you come, I believe they must undergo the fate of all humble compa^ nions, and be discarded.... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - English literature - 1820 - 548 pages
...for the continuance of any thing that could be the occasion of so much pleasure to me. Low spirits are my true and faithful companions; they get up with...and are the prettiest insipid company in the world. However, when you come, I believe they must undergo the fate of all humble companions, and be discarded.... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - Poetics - 1827 - 468 pages
...for the continuance of any thing that could be the occasion of so much pleasure to me. Low spirits are my true and faithful companions ; they get up...and are the prettiest insipid company in the world. However, when you come, I believe they must undergo the fate of all humble companions, and be discarded.... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1835 - 342 pages
...for the continuance of any thing that could be the occasion of so much pleasure to me.* Low spirits are my true and faithful companions ; they get up...and are the prettiest insipid company in the world. However, when you come, I believe they must undergo the fate of all humble companions, and be discarded.... | |
 | 1854 - 544 pages
...spirits,' he writes at the age of twenty, ' are my true and faithful companions ; they get up with me, and go to bed with me ; make journeys and returns as I...and are the prettiest insipid company in the world.' ' My health I cannot complain of, but as to my spirits, they are always many degrees below changeable... | |
 | Christianity - 1854 - 544 pages
...age of twenty, 'are my true and faithful companions ; they get up with me, and go to bed with roe ; make journeys and returns as I do ; nay, and pay visits,...and are the prettiest insipid company in the world.' ' My health I cannot complain of, but as to my spirits, they are always many degrees below changeable... | |
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Low spirits are my true and faithful companions; they get up with me, go to bed with me, make journeys and returns as I do; nay, and pay visits, and will even affect to be jocose, and force a feeble laugh with me; but most commonly we sit alone together,... 
