 To a man the disappointment of love may occasion some bitter pangs: it wounds some feelings of tenderness, it blasts some prospects of felicity; but he is an active -being; he...  Bower of Taste - Page 456edited by - 1828Full view - About this book
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1820 - 364 pages
...traffic of affection; and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless — for it is a bankruptcy of the heart. To a man the disappointment of love may occasion some...the whirl of varied occupation, or plunge into the tide of pleasure ; or, if the scene of disappointment be too full of painful associations, he can shift... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1822 - 424 pages
...traffic of affection; and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless — for it is a bankruptcy of the heart. To a man the disappointment of love may occasion some...prospects of felicity; but he is an active being — he may dissipate his thoughts in the whirl of varied occupation, or may plunge into the tide of pleasure... | |
 | Washington Irving - American literature - 1821 - 354 pages
...traffic of affection ; and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless — for it is a bankruptcy of the heart. To a man the disappointment of love may occasion some...the whirl of varied occupation, or plunge into the tide of pleasure ; or, if the scene of disappointment be too full of painful associations, he can shift... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1822 - 402 pages
...traffic of affection; and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless — for it is a bankruptcy of the heart. To a man the disappointment of love may occasion some...prospects of felicity; but he is an active being — he may dissipate his thoughts in the whirl of varied occupation, or may plunge into the tide of pleasure... | |
 | Thomas O'Connor - English literature - 1824 - 180 pages
...traffic of affection; and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless — for it is a bankruptcy of the heart. To a man, the disappointment of love may occasion...the whirl of varied occupation, or plunge into the tide of pleasure ; or, if the scene of disappointment be too full of painful associations, he can shift... | |
 | Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1824 - 476 pages
...traffic of affection ; and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless, for it is a bankruptcy of the heart. "To a man the disappointment of love may occasion...prospects of felicity ; but he is an active being — he may dissipate his thoughts in the whirl of varied occupation, or may plunge into the tide of pleasure... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...traffic of affection; and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless — for it is a bankruptcy of the heart. To a man the disappointment of love may occasion some...prospects of felicity; but he is an active being — he may dissipate his thoughts in the whirl of varied occupation, or may plunge into the tide of pleasure... | |
 | Cabinet - Literature - 1824 - 440 pages
...traffic of affection ; and, if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless — for it is a bankruptcy of the heart. To a man the disappointment of love may occasion some...prospects of felicity ; but he is an active being — he may dissipate his thoughts in the whirl of varied occupation, or may plunge into the tide of pleasure... | |
 | William Oxberry - English literature - 1824 - 382 pages
...traffic of affection ; and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless — for it is a bankruptcy of the heart. To a man the disappointment of love may occasion some...tenderness — it blasts some prospects of felicity ; bnt he is an active being — he can dissipate his thoughts in the whirl of varied occupation, or... | |
 | 1834 - 638 pages
...wounds some feelings of tenderness, it hlasts some prospects of felicity : hut he is an active heing ; he can dissipate his thoughts in the whirl of varied occupation, or plunge into the tide of pleasure; or, if the scene of disappointment he too full of painful associations, he can shift... | |
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