 | Henry Fielding - 1743 - Počet stránok 436
...relate one Inftance. While I was laft Winter laid up in t}ie Gout, with a favourite Child dying in one Bed, and my Wife in a Condition very little better, on another, attended \vith other Circumda fiances, xxvi PREFACE. dances, which ferved as very proper Decorations to fuch... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1845 - Počet stránok 578
...will relate one instance. While I was last winter laid up in the gout, with a favourite child dying in ould be at." The exciseman shook his head at this...man said, " Madness was sometimes a difficult matter decoration to such a scene, I received a letter from a friend, desiring me to vindicate myself from... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1883 - Počet stránok 214
...to the Miscellanies, he describes himself as being then laid up, " with a favourite Child dying in one Bed, and my Wife in a Condition very little better,...served as very proper Decorations to such a Scene" — by which Mr. Keightley no doubt rightly supposes him to refer to writs and bailiffs. It must also... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1889 - Počet stránok 474
...he says he was ' laid up with the gout' in the winter of 1742-3, ' with a favourite child dying in one bed, and my wife in a condition very little better on another, attended with other circumstances ' (probably bailiffs), ' which served as very proper decorations to such a scene.' He declared that... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1905 - Počet stránok 700
...to the Miscellanies, he describes himself as being then laid up, " with a favourite Child dying in one Bed, and my Wife in a Condition very little better, on another, attended with other Gircumstances, which served as very proper Decorations to such a Scene," — by which Mr. Keightley... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1905 - Počet stránok 314
...laid up "with a favourite Child dying in one Bed, and my Wife in 1 117. 2 Preface to Miscellanies. a Condition very little better, on another, attended...served as very proper Decorations to such a Scene." The passage well illustrates the vicissitudes of his life, — the reference in the last clause doubtless... | |
 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - 1906 - Počet stránok 374
...with an attack of gout, but he had the misery " of seeing a favourite child dying in one bed, and his wife in a condition very little better on another, attended with other circumstances which served as a very proper decoration to such a scene." Hurriedly reconstructed and containing many blemishes, it... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1907 - Počet stránok 240
...Preface to the Miscellanies, he describes himself as being then laid up, "with a favourite Child dying in one Bed, and my Wife in a Condition very little better,...served as very proper Decorations to such a Scene," — by which Mr. Keightley no doubt rightly supposes him to refer to writs and bailiffs. It must also... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1907 - Počet stránok 208
...Miscellanies, he says —" While I was last winter laid up with the gout, with a favourite child dying in one bed, and my wife in a condition very little better...served as very proper decorations to such a scene." By these circumstances he doubtless meant pecuniary embarrassments, and the child, a daughter, as we... | |
 | 1907 - Počet stránok 866
...executing my task." And once more: "I was last winter laid up with the gout, with a favorite child dying in one bed, and my wife in a condition very little better...circumstances which served as very proper decorations for such a scene." But her loss could not rob him of his happiest memories; and he looked forward to... | |
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I was last Winter laid up in the Gout, with a favourite Child dying in one Bed, and my Wife in a Condition very little better, on another, attended with other Circumstances, which served as very proper Decorations to such a Scene. 
