 Too late to say, put the curb on, and don't rush at hills — the wrong man to say it to. I have now no relief but in action. I am become incapable of rest. I am quite confident I should rust, break, and die, if I spared myself. Much better to die, doing.  Dickens - Page 108by Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1882 - 222 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Forster - 1874 - 656 pages
...hills — the wrong man to say it to. I have "now no relief but in action. I am become in" capable of rest. I am quite confident I should "rust, break,...Much "better to die, doing. What I am in that way, LONDON: "and I must hold upon the tenure prescribed to ^^ "me." Something of the same sad feeling,... | |
 | John Forster - 1874 - 616 pages
...curb on, and don't rush at hills — the wrong man to say it to. I have now no relief but in action. I am become incapable of rest. I am quite confident...and my way of life has of late, alas ! confirmed. I must accept the drawback — since it is one — with the powers I have ; and I must hold upon the... | |
 | John Forster - 1874 - 616 pages
...curb on, and don't rush at hills — the wrong man to say it to. I have now no relief but in action. I am become incapable of rest. I am quite confident...and my way of life has of late, alas ! confirmed. I must accept the drawback — since it is one — with the powers I have ; and I must hold upon the... | |
 | John Forster - 1874 - 802 pages
...curb on, and don't rush at hills — the wrong man to say it to. I have now no relief but in action. I am become incapable of rest. I am quite confident...made me first, and my way of life has of late, alas ! con~ firmed. I must accept the drawback — since it is one — with the powers I have ; and I must... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1874 - 572 pages
...and don't rush at hills — the wrong man to say it to. I have no relief but in action. I am quite incapable of rest. I am quite confident I should rust,...die, if I spared myself. Much better to die doing." In another letter :— " The old days — the old days I Shall I ever, I wonder, get the frame of mind... | |
 | 1879 - 244 pages
...curb on, and don't rush at hills:" the wrong man to say it to. I have now no relief but in action ; I am become incapable of rest. I am quite confident...and my way of life has of late, alas ! confirmed. I must accept the drawback — since it is one — with the powers I have ; and I must hold upon the... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1882 - 244 pages
...its close he was master of the country residence which had been the dream of his childhood, but he had become a stranger to that tranquillity of mind...made me first, and my way of life has of late, alas I confirmed." Early in 1852, the youngest of his children had been born tg him — the boy whose babyhood... | |
 | Sir Frank Thomas Marzials - 1887 - 208 pages
...could not be quiet. In the autumn of 1857 he wrote to Forster, " I have now no relief but in action. I am become incapable of rest. I am quite confident...die if I spared myself. Much better to die doing." And again, a little later, " If I couldn't walk fast and far, I should just explode and perish." It... | |
 | Theodore Whitefield Hunt - 1887 - 552 pages
...success as a writer and with that fertility of production which he exhibited. Late in life he wrote — " I am become incapable of rest. I am quite confident I should break and die, if I spared myself. Much better to die doing." He early formed the purpose of doing... | |
 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1890 - 488 pages
...restless and unhappy. In the autumn of 1857, he wrote Forster : " I have now no relief but in action. I am become incapable of rest. I am quite confident...die, if I spared myself. Much better to die doing. . . . Am altogether in a dishevelled state of mind — motes of new books in the dirty air, miseries... | |
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