 ... look into my desolation, and be made to understand what a dreary thing it is when a man shall feel himself going down a precipice with open eyes and a passive will, - to see his destruction, and have no power to stop it, and yet to feel it all the...  Spirit of the English Magazines - Page 821823Full view - About this book
 | 1822 - 694 pages
...and a passive will, — to see his destruction, and have no power to stop it, and yet to feel it all the way emanating from himself; to perceive all goodness...piteous spectacle of his own self-ruins: — could he see my fevered eye, feverish with last night's drinking, and feverishly looking for this night's repetition... | |
 | John Platts - Conduct of life - 1822 - 844 pages
...and a passive will, — to see his destruction, and have no power to stop it, and yet to feel it all the way emanating from himself; to perceive all goodness...otherwise ; to bear about the piteous spectacle of his own self-ruin ; — could he see my fevered eye, feverish with last night's drinking, and feverishly looking... | |
 | English literature - 1822 - 1148 pages
...and a passive will,—to see his destruction, and have no power to stop it, and yet to feel it all the way emanating from himself; to perceive all goodness...otherwise; to bear about the piteous spectacle of his own self ruins :—could he see my fevered eye, feverish with last night's drinking, and feverishly looking... | |
 | English literature - 1822 - 582 pages
...and a passive will, — to see his destruction, and have no power to stop it, and yet to feel it all the way emanating from himself; to perceive all goodness...otherwise; to bear about the piteous spectacle of his own self ruins : — could he see my fevered eye, feverish with last night's drinking, and feverishly looking... | |
 | Saturday night - 1824 - 968 pages
...feel it all the way emanating from himself; to perceive all goodnes# emptied out of him, and yet not be able to forget a time when it was otherwise ; to...piteous spectacle of his own self-ruins —could he see my fevered eye, feverish with last night's drinking, and feverishly looking for this night's repetition... | |
 | William Oxberry - English literature - 1824 - 384 pages
...feel it all the way emanating from himself; to feel all the goodness emptied out of him, and yet not be able to forget a time when it was otherwise; to bear about the piteous spectacle of his own self-ruins—could he see my fevered eye, feverish with last night's drinking, feverishly looking for... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1828 - 1828 - 266 pages
...eyes and a passive will—to see his destruction, and have no power to stop it, and yet to feel it all the way emanating from himself; to perceive all goodness...otherwise; to bear about the piteous spectacle of his own self-ruins:—could he see my fevered eye, feverish, with last night's drinking and feverishly looking... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1832 - 610 pages
...and a passive will, — to see his destruction, and have no power to stop it, and yet to feel it all the way emanating from himself; to perceive all goodness emptied out of him, and yet not be able to forget a time when it was otherwise ; to bear about the piteous spectacle of his own self... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1832 - 622 pages
...anJ a passive will,—to see his destruction, and have-no power to stop it, and yet to feel it all the way emanating from himself; to perceive all goodness emptied out of him,and yet not be ;ible to forget a time when it was otherwise ; to bear about the piteous spectacle... | |
 | English literature - 1835 - 432 pages
...and a passive will — to see his destruction, and have no power to stop it, and yet to feel it all the way emanating from himself; to perceive all goodness...piteous spectacle of his own self-ruins : — could he see my fevered eye, feverish with last night's drinking, and feverishly looking for this night's repetition... | |
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