 ... before I was sensible of what it was to grieve, seized my very soul, and has made pity the weakness of my heart ever since. The mind in infancy is, methinks, like the body in embryo; and receives impressions so forcible, that they are as hard to be...  The Tatler - Page 352by Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1804 - 400 pagesFull view - About this book
 | North American review - 1884 - 662 pages
...of early experience. Apropos of these memories, Steele wrote in his " Recollections of Childhood," " The mind in infancy is, methinks, like the body in...born is to be taken away by any future application." VJ From another point of view, all these sentiments are due to incompleteness of recollection, and... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1882 - 1134 pages
...instinct of sorrow, which, before I was sensible what it was to grieve, seized my very soul, and has made witches of Macbeth. Never were so exquisitely imagined,...nimble genii, the bodiless sylphs, the dreamy popula th«t they arc as hard to be removed by reason as any mark with which a child is born to be taken away... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - English literature - 1886 - 396 pages
...instinct of sorrow, which, before I was sensible what it was to grieve, seized my very soul, and has made pity the weakness of my heart ever since. The mind...hard to be removed by reason as any mark with which n child is bor n is to be taken away by any future application.' succession to a very good estate in... | |
 | English language - 1888 - 576 pages
...sorrow, which, before I was sensible of what it was to grieve, sei2ed my very soul, and has made p,ty the weakness of my heart ever since. The mind in infancy...taken away by any future application. Hence it is that good nature in me is no merit; but having been as frequently overwhelmed with her tears before I knew... | |
 | English essays - 1888 - 498 pages
...of sorrow, that, before I was sensible of what it was to grieve, seized my very soul, and has made pity the weakness of my heart ever since. The mind...so forcible, that they are as hard to be removed by j reason, as any mark, with which a child is born, is to be taken away by any future application. Hence... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1889 - 462 pages
...of sorrow, that, before I was sensible of what it was to grieve, seized my very soul, and has made pity the weakness of my heart ever since. The mind...away by any future application. Hence it is, that good nature in me is no merit ; but having been so frequently overwhelmed with her tears before I knew... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1889 - 454 pages
...of sorrow, that, before I was sensible of what it was to grieve, seized my very soul, and has made pity the weakness of my heart ever since. The mind...away by any future application. Hence it is, that good nature in me is no merit; but having been so frequently overwhelmed with her tears before I knew... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1889 - 440 pages
...of sorrow, that, before I was sensible of what it was to grieve, seized my very soul, and has made pity the weakness of my heart ever since. The mind...away by any future application. Hence it is, that good nature in me is no merit ; but having been so frequently overwhelmed with her tears before I knew... | |
 | Edmund William Gosse - English literature - 1891 - 462 pages
...of sorrow, that, before I was sensible of what it was to grieve, seized my very soul, and has made pity the weakness of my heart ever since. The mind...away by any future application. Hence it is, that good nature in me is no merit ; but having been so frequently overwhelmed with her tears before I knew... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1891 - 440 pages
...of sorrow, that, before I was sensible of what it was to grieve, seized my very soul, and has made pity the weakness of my heart ever since. The mind...away by any future application. Hence it is, that good nature in me is no merit ; but having been so frequently overwhelmed with her tears before I knew... | |
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