 | Thomas Chatterton - 1803 - 608 pages
...my damn'd, native, unconquerable PRIDE that plunges me into distraction. You must know that 19-20th of my composition is pride: I must either live a slave, a servant, have no will of my own, no sentiments of my own which I may freely declare as such, or DIE ! — Perplexing... | |
 | 1828 - 488 pages
...damn'd, native, unconquerable pride, that plunges rne into distraction. You must know that the 19-20th of my composition is pride. I must either live a slave,...servant, to have no will of my own, no sentiments of we pass along. At length the Needles appear running far into the sea— their rocks have been so magnified... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 400 pages
...my damned, native, unconquerable pride, that plunges me into distraction. You must know that 19-20th of my composition is pride. I must either live a slave — a servant — have no will of my own which I may fairly declare as such, or DIE." — Vol. iii. p. 419. The art... | |
 | John Ross Dix - Chatterton, Thomas, 1752-1770 - 1837 - 368 pages
...native, unconquerable PRIDE, that plunges me into distraction. You must know that nineteen-twentieths of my composition is pride. I must either live a slave, a servant, have no will of my own, no sentiments of my own which I may freely declare as such, or die. Perplexing... | |
 | Thomas Chatterton - 1842 - 494 pages
...nineteen-twentieths of my composition is pride. I must either live a slave — a servant, have no will of my own, which I may freely declare as such, — or DIE. Perplexing alternative ! that it distracts me to think of it : I will endeavour -#to learn humility, bat it cannot be here.... | |
 | Thomas Chatterton - 1842 - 528 pages
...native, unconquerable PRIDE, that plunges me into distraction. You must know that nineteen-twentieths of my composition is pride. I must either live a slave — a servant, have no will of my own, which I may freely declare as such, — or DIE. Perplexing alternative ! that... | |
 | Thomas Chatterton - 1842 - 494 pages
...native, unconquerable PRIDE, that plunges me into distraction. You must know that nineteen-tweutieths of my composition is pride. I must either live a slave — a servant, have no will of my own, •which I may freely declare as such, — or DIE, Perplexing alternative !... | |
 | Thomas Chatterton - Literary forgeries and mystifications - 1842 - 492 pages
...native, unconquerable PRIDE, that plunges me into distraction. You must know that nineteen-twentieths of my composition is pride. I must either live a slave — a servant, have no will of my own, which I may freely declare as snch, — or DIE. Perplexing alternative 1 that... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1848 - 452 pages
...damned, native, unconquerable pride, that plunges me into distraction. You must know that 19-20ths of my composition is pride. I must either live a slave — a servant — have no will of my own which I may fairly declare as such, or die." — Sir Walter Scott, Misc.... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1848 - 468 pages
...damned, native, unconquerable pride, that plunges me into distraction. You must know that 19-20ths of my composition is pride. I must either live a slave— a servant — have no will of my own which I may fairly declare as such, or die."— Sir Walter Scott, Misc.... | |
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I never drink to excess, and have, without vanity, too much sense to be attached to the mercenary retailers of iniquity. No, it is my PRIDE, my damn'd native unconquerable PRIDE, that plunges me into distraction. 
