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" I look back to that part of my life which immediately followed this event with little satisfaction ; it was a period of gloom and savage unsociability : by degrees I sunk into a kind of corporeal torpor ; or if roused into activity by the spirit of youth,... "
The Annual Biography and Obituary for the Year ... - Page 140
1828
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Satires

Juvenal - 1802 - 574 pages
...gloom, and savage unsociability : by degrees I sunk into a kind of corporeal torpor ; or, if rouzed into activity by the spirit of youth, wasted the exertion...had yet left me. So I crept on in silent discontent; unfriended and unpitied ; indignant at the present, careless of the future, an object at once of apprehension...
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Public Characters, Volume 5

1803 - 598 pages
...gloom and savage unsociability : by degrees I sunk into a kind of corporeal torpor ; or, if rouzed into activity by the spirit of youth, wasted the exertion...had yet left me. So I crept on in silent discontent; unfriended and unpitied; indignant at the present, careless of the future, an object at once of apprehension...
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The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, Volume 1

Juvenal - 1803 - 354 pages
...gloom, and savage unsociability : by degrees I sunk into a kind of corporeal torpor ; or, if rouzed into activity by the spirit of youth, wasted the exertion...had yet left me. So I crept on in silent discontent ; unfriended and unpitied ; indignant at the present, careless of the future, an object at once of...
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Public characters [Formerly British public characters] of 1798-9 ..., Volume 5

1803 - 614 pages
...of gloom and savage unsociability : by degrees I sunk into a kind of corporeal torpor ;or, if rouzed into activity by the spirit of youth, wasted the exertion in splenetic and vexatious tricks", \vhich alienated the few acquaintances compassion had yet left me. So I crept on in silent discontent}...
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The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis

Juvenal - 1806 - 582 pages
...dofporeal torpor ; or, if roused1 into activity by* the spirit of youth, wasted the exertion in splenetick and vexatious tricks, which alienated the few acquaintances...had yet left me. So I crept on in silent discontent ; unfriendedf arid unpitied ; indignant at the present, careless of the future, an object at once of...
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The satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, tr. into Engl. verse, by W. Gifford ...

Juvenal - 1806 - 578 pages
...with little satisfaction; it was a period of gloom, and savage unsociability: by degrees I sunk into a kind of corporeal torpor; or, if roused into activity by the spirit of youth, wasted the exertion in splenetick and vexatious tricks, which alienated the few acquaintances compassion had yet left me....
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The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis

Juvenal - 1806 - 576 pages
...little satisfaction ; it was a period of gloom, and savage unsociability : by degrees I sunk into a kind of corporeal torpor ; or, if roused into activity by the spirit of youth, wasted the exertion in splenetick and vexatious tricks, which alienated the few acquaintances compassion had yet left me....
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The lyre of love [ed. by P.L. Courtier].

Lyre - 1806 - 204 pages
...melancholy passage of his early life. " I crept on in silent discontent, unfriended and nnpitied ; indignant at the present, careless of the future, an object at once of apprehension and dislike. I- ram this ttate ofatjcctnui I mu raised by a young woman of my own class....
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Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century ..., Volume 6

John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1831 - 952 pages
...little satisfaction ; it was a period of gloom and savage unsociability : by degrees I sunk into a kind of corporeal torpor; or if roused into activity...present, careless of the future, an object at once of apprehension and dislike. " From this state of abjectness I was raised by a young woman of my own class....
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The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis and of Aulus Persius Flaccus

Perse, Juvénal - 1817 - 596 pages
...little satisfaction ; it was a period of gloom, and savage unsociability : by degrees I sunk into a kind of corporeal torpor; or, if roused into activity by the spirit of youth, wasted the exertion in splenetick and vexatious tricks, which alienated the few acquaintances whom compassion had yet left...
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