 I have the satisfaction to recollect that my prosperity has been of advantage to many, and to hope that some at least will forgive my transient wealth on account of the innocence of my intentions, and my real wish to do good to the poor.  Tait's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 96edited by - 1838Full view - About this book
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1837 - 422 pages
...the satisfaction to recollect that my prosperity has been of advantage to many, and to hope that some at least will forgive my transient wealth on account...cottages of Abbotsford. I have half resolved never to see tha place again. How could I tread my hall with such a diminished crest ? How live a poor indebted... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 418 pages
...the satisfaction to recollect that my prosperity has been of advantage to many, and to hope that some at least will forgive my transient wealth on account...real wish to do good to the poor. Sad hearts, too, at Darnitk, and in the cottages of Abbotsford. I have half resolved never to see the place again. How... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1837 - 430 pages
...the satisfaction to recollect that my prosperity has been of advantage to many, and to hope that some at least will forgive my transient wealth on account...real wish to do good to the poor. Sad hearts, too, at l);u nick, and in the cottages of Abbotsford. I have half resolved never to see the place again. How... | |
 | 1840 - 566 pages
...satisfaction to recollect that my prosperity has been of advantage to many, and to hope that some, at least, will forgive my transient wealth on account...and my real wish to do good to the poor. Sad hearts in the cottages at Abbotsford. Poor Will Laidlaw — poor Tom Purdie, the news will wring your hearts,... | |
 | Ireland - 1841 - 436 pages
...the satisfaction to recollect that my prosperity has been of advantage to many, and to hope that some at least will forgive my transient wealth on account...could I tread my hall with such a diminished crest 1 How live a poor indebted man, where I was onoe the wealthy—the honoured. I was to have gone there... | |
 | Robert Pearse Gillies - Authors - 1851 - 348 pages
...the satisfaction to recollect that my prosperity has been of advantage to many, and to hope that some at least will forgive my transient wealth, on account...see the place again. How could I tread my hall with a diminished crest ? How live a poor, indebted man, where I was once the wealthy — the honoured ?... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1853 - 906 pages
...the satisfaction to recollect that my prosperity has been of advantage to many, and to hope that some at least will forgive my transient wealth on account...cottages of Abbotsford. I have half resolved never to sec the place again. How could I tread my hall with such a diminished crest ?—how live a poor indebted... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 350 pages
...satisfaction to recollect, that my prosperity has been of advantage to many ; and to hope that some at least will forgive my transient wealth on account...have half resolved never to see the place again," &c. In 1826 Mr. Constable came to London to raise money on his copyrights, but failed to realise any... | |
 | Anne Manning - Household employees - 1857 - 170 pages
...satisfaction to recollect that my prosperity has been of advantage to many; and to hope that some, at least, will forgive my transient wealth on account...and my real wish to do good to the poor. Sad hearts there will be at Darnick ! and in the cottages of Abbotsford ! I have half resolved never to see the... | |
 | T P Grinsted - Great Britain - 1859 - 342 pages
...were the first in his remembrance. " Sad hearts, too, at Darnick," wrote he on one unhappy morning, " and in the cottages of Abbotsford. I have half resolved never to see the place again. * * * My dogs will wait for me in vain. It is foolish, but the thoughts of parting from these dumb... | |
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