 I am so far from growing used to mankind by living amongst them, that my natural ferocity and wildness does but every day grow worse. They tire me, they fatigue me ; I don't know what to do with them ; I don't know what to say to them; I fling open the...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 111873Full view - About this book
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - English literature - 1899 - 1076 pages
...me ; I don't know what to do with them ; I don't know what to say to them. I fling open the windows and fancy I want air; and when I get by myself I undress...in my pockets, in my plaits, and on my shoulders. I find this fatigue worse in the country than in the town, because one can avoid it there and has more... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1903 - 470 pages
...; I don't know what to do with them ; I don't know what to say to them ; I fling open the windows, and fancy I want air ; and when I get by myself, I...fatigue worse in the country than in town, because one can avoid it there and has more resources ; but it is there too. I fear 'tis growing old ; but... | |
 | English periodicals - 1904 - 654 pages
...me ; I don't know what to do with them; I don't know what to say to them. I fling open the windows and fancy I want air ; and when I get by myself I...people in my pockets, in my plaits, and on my shoulders .... They say there is no English word for ennui. I think you may translate it most literally by what... | |
 | William John Courthope - English poetry - 1905 - 502 pages
...worse. They tire me, they fatigue me; I don't know what to do with them ; I fling open the windows, and fancy I want air; and when I get by myself, I...my pockets, in my plaits, and on my shoulders ! I fear 'tis growing old; but I literally seem to have murdered a man whose name was Ennui, for his ghost... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1906 - 1034 pages
...fatigue me; I don't know what to do with them; I don't know what to say to them; I fling open the windows and fancy I want air; and when I get by myself. I...in my pockets, in my plaits, and on my shoulders." in view of his professed indifference to people, his humane feeling toward the lower creatures is somewhat... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1914 - 428 pages
...me; I don't know what to do with them ; I don't know what to say to them; I fling open the windows, and fancy I want air; and when I get by myself, I...fatigue worse in the country than in town, because one can avoid it there and has more resources.; but it is there too. I fear 'tis growing old; but I... | |
 | American literature - 1924 - 848 pages
...and wildness does but every day grow worse. They tire me, they fatigue me; I fling open the windows, and fancy I want air; and when I get by myself, I...in my pockets, in my plaits, and on my shoulders!" He was young when he wrote this, but it represented a mere passing mood or fancy. He returned to the... | |
 | Gamaliel Bradford - Authors - 1924 - 376 pages
...wildness does but every day grow worse. They tire me, they fatigue me; ... I fling open the windows, and fancy I want air; and when I get by myself, I...had people in my pockets, in my plaits, and on my shoulders!"28 He was young when he wrote this, but it represented a mere passing mood or fancy. He... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1926 - 338 pages
...me; I don't know what to do with them; I don't know what to say to them; I fling open the windows, and fancy I want air; and when I get by myself, I...fatigue worse in the country than in town, because one can avoid it there and has more resources; but it is there too. I fear 'tis growing old; but I... | |
 | Dorothy Margaret Stuart - 1927 - 252 pages
...fatigue me; I don't know what to do with them; I don't know what to say to them; I fling open the windows and fancy I want air; and when I get by myself, I...fatigue worse in the country than in town, because one can avoid it there and has more resources; but it is there too. I fear 'tis growing old; but I... | |
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