 The storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours, I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth ! There, and prostrate there, I most unfeignedly...  The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th] - Page 3291824Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1824 - 624 pages
...published letter addressed to a noble Lord, in answer to the Duke of Bedford's attack upon his pension, h« says : ' The storm has gone over me, and I lie like...roots, * and lie prostrate on the earth I am alone. I have none ' to meet my enemies at the gate.' Mr. Burke died on the ' 8th of June 1797, in the 68th... | |
 | English letters - 1827 - 586 pages
...affliction that Mr. Burke alludes in his Letter to the Duke of Bedford, published Feb. 24*. 1796. " The storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one of...me. I am stripped of all my honours ; I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth." DEAR SIR, I AM exceedingly flattered by the compassionate... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1824 - 618 pages
...speaks of " the sorrows of a desolate old man." And again, " The storm has gone over me ; and I lye like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane...me. I am stripped of all my honours ; I am torn up by the roots and lye prostrate on the earth." " I am alone. I have none to meet my enemies in the gate.... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...has ordained it in another manner, and, whatever my querulous weakness might suggest, a far better. The storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one of...me. I am stripped of all my honours ; I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth ! There, and prostrate there, I most unfeignedly recognise... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1826 - 446 pages
...myself, or for my family, (a/as.' / have none,) I have nothing to hope or to fear in this world." " The storm has gone over me; and I lie like one of...me. I am stripped of all my honours. I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth. I am alone. I have none to meet my enemies in the gate.... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1826 - 444 pages
...myself, or for my family, (a/as .' I have none,) I have nothing to hope or to fear in this world." " The storm has gone over me; and I lie like one of those old oats which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours. I am torn up... | |
 | Henry Ellis - English letters - 1827 - 580 pages
...affliction that Mr. Burke alludes in his Letter to the Duke of Bedford, published Feb. 24ih. 1796. " The storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one of those old Oaks which the late hurricane has seattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours ; I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate... | |
 | sir Henry Ellis - Great Britain - 1827 - 768 pages
...affliction that Mr. Burke alludes in his Letter to the Duke of Bedford, published Feb. 24lh. 1796. " The storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one of those old Oaks which the late hurricara' has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours ; I am torn up by the roots, and... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - Authorship - 1828 - 588 pages
...ordained it in a different manner, and, (whatever my querulous weakness might suggest,) a far better. The storm has gone over me, and I lie like one of...me ; I am stripped of all my honours ; I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth. But there, and prostrate there, I most unfeignedly recognize... | |
 | J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - Elocution - 1828 - 314 pages
...has ordained it in another manner, and, whatever my querulous weakness might suggest, a far better. The storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one of...me. I am stripped of all my honours ; I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth ! There, and prostrate there, I most unfeignedly recognize... | |
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