 | Richard Ryan - Poetry - 1826 - 336 pages
...describes in a letter to one of his intimate friends. — " Nothing pleases me so much as my personal freedom. I rise at midnight ; I go out at break of...mountains, the humid vallies, and shelter myself in the profoundest caves ; sometimes I walk, attended only by my reflections, along the banks of the Sorgia,... | |
 | Richard Ryan - Poetry - 1826 - 334 pages
...describes in a letter to one of his intimate friends. — " Nothing pleases me so much as my personal freedom. I rise at midnight ; I go out at break of...mountains, the humid vallies, and shelter myself in the profoundest caves ; sometimes I walk, attended only by my reflections, along the banks of the Sorgia,... | |
 | Richard Ryan - Poetry - 1826 - 338 pages
...his intimate friends. — " Nothing pleases me so much as my personal freedom. I rise at midnight ; F go out at break of day ; I study in the fields as...mountains, the humid vallies, and shelter myself in the profoundest caves ; sometimes I walk, attended only by my reflections, along the banks of the Sorgia,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Numismatics - 1841 - 452 pages
...opened, they would not now have the same empire over me." In another letter from Vaucluse, he says, " I rise at midnight ; I go out at break of day ; I study in the fields as in my library ; I read, I write, I dream ; I struggle against indolence, luxury, and pleasure. I wander all... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Numismatics - 1843 - 448 pages
...opened, they would not now have the same empire over me." In another letter from Vaucluse, he says, " I rise at midnight ; I go out at break of day ; I study in the fields as in my library ; I read, I write, I dream ; I struggle against indolence, luxury, and pleasure. I wander all... | |
 | Francesco Petrarca - 1859 - 790 pages
...opened, they would not now have the same empire over me." In another letter fromVaucluse, he says : " I rise at midnight ; I go out at break of day ; I study in the fields as in my library ; I read, I write, I dream; I struggle against indolence, luxury, and pleasure. I wander all... | |
 | Charles Tomlinson - Sonnet - 1874 - 260 pages
...refreshing. He gives several descriptions of his mode of life in this solitude. In one of them he says — " I rise at midnight — I go out at break of day — I study in the fields as in my library — I read, I write, I dream — I struggle against indolence, luxury, and pleasure. I wander... | |
 | Charles Tomlinson - Sonnet - 1874 - 288 pages
...refreshing. He gives several descriptions of his mode of life in this solitude. In one of them he says — " I rise at midnight — I go out at break of day — I study in the fields as in my library — I read, I write, I dream — I struggle against indolence, luxury, und pleasure. I wander... | |
 | Francesco Petrarca - Sonnets, Italian - 1879 - 634 pages
...opened, they would not now have the same empire over me." In another letter from Vaucluse, he says : " I rise at midnight ; I go out at break of day ; I study in the fields as in my library ; I read, I write, I dreaia; I struggle against indolence, luxury, and pleasure. I wander all... | |
 | North American review - 1924 - 924 pages
...only about Vaucluse but about solitude. In the letter just mentioned, he tells of his occupations. " I rise at midnight; I go out at break of day; I study in the fields as in my library; I read, I write, I dream; I struggle against indolence, luxury, and pleasure. I wander all... | |
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I rise at midnight ; I go out at break of day ; I study in the fields as in my library ; I read, I write, I dream ; I struggle against indolence, luxury, and pleasure. I wander all day among the arid mountains, the fresh valleys, and the deep caverns.... 