 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 802 pages
...which should convey yon through such short walks as give an easic view of the whole frame. But it is high time to strike sail, and cast anchor, (though I have run but halfe my course) when at the holme I am tbreatned with Death ; who, though he can visit us but once,... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1814 - 302 pages
...great in his style on this occasion. " I am here arrived at the middle of the third book. But it is high time to strike sail and cast anchor, though I have run but half my course, •when _ at the helm I am threatened with death; who, though he can visit us but once, seems troublesome ;... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1815 - 558 pages
...reader, with a coolness which would not have disgraced Sir Thomas More. ' 'Tis high time,' he says, ' to strike sail and cast anchor, (though I have run but half my course,) when at the helm I am threatened with death ; who, though he can visit us but once, seems troublesome, and even... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 pages
...run but half his course) when at the helm he was threatened with death, who, though he can visit us but once, seems troublesome, and even in the innocent may beget such a gravity as diverts the music of verse." The hope of fame, which he had fondly cherished, was not likely to be much encouraged... | |
 | 1820 - 404 pages
...run but half his course) when at the helm he was threatened with death, who, though he can visit us but once, seems troublesome, and even in the innocent may beget such a gravity as diverts the music of verse." The hope of fame, which he had fondly cherished, was not likely to be much encouraged... | |
 | 1820 - 408 pages
...run but half his course) when at the helm he was threatened with death, who, though he can visit us but once, seems troublesome, and even in the innocent may beget such a gravity as diverts the music of verse." The hope of fame, which he had fondly cherished, was not likely to be much encouraged... | |
 | 1820 - 406 pages
...run but half his course) when at the helm he was threatened with death, who, though he can visit us but once, seems troublesome, and even in the innocent may beget such a gravity as diverts the music of verse." The hope of fame, which he had fondly cherished, was not likely to be much encouraged... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 276 pages
...which should convey you through such short walks, as give an easy view of the whole frame. But it is high time to strike sail, and cast anchor, though I have run but half my course, when at the helm I am threatened with death ; who, though he can visit but once, seems troublesome, and, even in... | |
 | 1838 - 406 pages
...which should convey you through such short walks as give an easy view of the whole frame. But it is high time to strike sail and cast anchor (though I have run but half my course), when, at the helm, I am threatened with death ; who, though he can visit us but once, seems troublesome ; and, even... | |
 | 1815 - 560 pages
...reader, with a coolness which would not have disgraced Sir Thomas More. ' 'Tis high time,' he says, ' to strike sail and cast anchor, (though I have run but half my course,)~when at the helm I am threatened with death ; who, though he can visit us but once, seems... | |
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I am here arrived at the middle of the third book. But it is high time to strike sail and cast anchor, though I have run but half my course, when at the helm I am threatened with death ; who, though he can visit us but once, seems troublesome ; and even... 
