 | Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - 1911 - 488 σελίδες
...made him often restless and fretful, and • with a constitutional melancholy, the clouds of which darkened the brightness of his fancy, and gave a gloomy cast to his whole course of thinking; we, therefore, ought not to wonder at his sallies of impatience and passion at any time, especially... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 σελίδες
...which made him often restless and fretful, and with a constitutional melancholy, the clouds of which darkened the brightness of his fancy and gave a gloomy cast to his whole course of thinking; we therefore ought not to wonder at his sallies of impatience and passion at any time, especially when... | |
 | James Boswell - 1916 - 370 σελίδες
...which made him often restless and fretful; and with a constitutional melancholy, the clouds of which darkened the brightness of his fancy, and gave a gloomy cast to his whole course of thinking. He loved praise, when it was brought to him; but was too proud to seek for it. He was somewhat susceptible... | |
 | James Boswell - 1923 - 372 σελίδες
...which made him often restless and fretful ; and with a constitutional melancholy, the clouds of which darkened the brightness of his fancy, and gave a gloomy cast to his whole course of thinking; we, therefore, ought not to wonder at his sallies of impatience and passion at any time; especially... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 σελίδες
...disease which made him restless and fretful, and with a constitutional melancholy, the clouds of which darkened the brightness of his fancy, and gave a gloomy cast to the whole course of his thinking : we therefore ought not to wonder at his sallies of impatience and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1924 - 562 σελίδες
...walking, — in the common step, are awkward. He had a_constitutipnal melancholy, the clouds of which darkened the brightness of his fancy, and gave a gloomy...mysterious, his vigorous reason examined the evidence evidence with jealousy. He had a loud voice, and a slow deliberate utterance, which no doubt gave some... | |
 | Gerald Edwin Se Boyar - 1925 - 456 σελίδες
...which made him often restless and fretful; and with a constitutional melancholy, the clouds of which darkened the brightness of his fancy, and gave a gloomy cast to his whole course of thinking: we, therefore, ought not to wonder at his sallies of impatience and passion at any time; especially... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 696 σελίδες
...disease which made him restless and fretful, and with a constitutional melancholy, the clouds of which darkened the brightness of his fancy, and gave a gloomy cast to his whole course of thinking We therefore ought not to wonder at his sallies of impatience and passion at any time, especially when... | |
 | William C. Dowling - 2008 - 226 σελίδες
...which conies close to the beginning of the Tour, Boswell describes his hero as "prone to supersitition, but not to credulity. Though his imagination might incline him to a belief of the marvelous, and the mysterious, his vigorous reason examined the evidence with jealousy" (V.1718). The... | |
 | Jeffrey Meyers - 2000 - 404 σελίδες
...which made him often restless and fretful; and with a constitutional melancholy, the clouds of which darkened the brightness of his fancy and gave a gloomy cast to his whole course of thinking."' The friendship continued until Orwell's death. In March 1942, while working at the BBC, Orwell tactfully... | |
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He was afflicted with a bodily disease which made him often restless and fretful; and with a constitutional melancholy, the clouds of which darkened the brightness of his fancy, and gave a gloomy cast to his whole course of thinking. 
