So great was my pain and misery," he says in the letter to his father already quoted, " that if I had laid open my breast to you, I verily believe that the very idea that I was going to leave you would have broken my heart." He relieved his burdened mind... The Shirburnian - Page 751864Full view - About this book
| Pasquale Villari - 1863 - 434 pages
...seemed to fly from you ; but be assured that so great was my own pain and misery, in parting from you, that if I had laid open my breast to you, I verily...heart, and that I must have abandoned my intention. You cannot therefore be surprised that I did not tell you. It is, however, true that I left a paper... | |
| Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - 1873 - 522 pages
...and misery, in parting from you, that if I had laid open my heart to you, I verily believe that the idea that I was going to leave you would have broken...heart, and that I must have abandoned my intention. You cannot, therefore, be surprised that I did not tell you. I beseech you, therefore, my dear father,... | |
| 1874 - 586 pages
...his family. "So great was my pain and misery," he says in the letter to his father already quoted, " that if I had laid open my breast to you, I verily...was going to leave you would have broken my heart." He relieved his burdeDed mind during this melancholy time by writing a little essay on " Disdain of... | |
| 1874 - 1078 pages
...his family. " So great was my pain and misery," he says in the letter to his father already quoted, " that if I had laid open my breast to you, I verily...was going to leave you would have broken my heart." He relieved his burdened mind during this melancholy time by writing a little essay on " Disdain of... | |
| Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1877 - 444 pages
...his family. " So great was my paiu and misery," he says in the letter to his father already quoted, " that if I had laid open my breast to you, I verily believe that the very idea that 1 was going to leave you would have broken my heart." He relieved his burdened mind during this melancholy... | |
| William Dinwiddie - 1879 - 438 pages
...seemed to fly from you ; but be assured that so great was my own pain and misery in parting from you, that if I had laid open my breast to you, I verily...heart, and that I must have abandoned my intention." He then alludes to a paper which he had secreted among some books, and in which he had declared his... | |
| Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1889 - 472 pages
..." So great was my pain and misery," he says in the letter to his father already quoted, "that if 1 had laid open my breast to you, I verily believe that...was going to leave you would have broken my heart." He relieved his burdened mind during this melancholy time by writing a little essay on " Disdain of... | |
| Robert Fleming Sample - 1889 - 476 pages
...year of his age. Soou the post carried a message home. Girolamo explained his sudden departure : " If I had laid open my breast to you, I verily believe...was going to leave you would have broken my heart." He also stated the motive which had determined his course — "the misery of the world " and " the... | |
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