 I have, in some measure, forborne excess of strong drink, my appetites have predominated over my reason. A kind of strange oblivion has overspread me, so that I know not what has become of the last year; and perceive that incidents and intelligence pass...  Lives of eminent persons - 470. oldalszerző: Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | Sarah Jordan - 2003 - 308 oldal
...diaries and prayers about his idle past attest to this feeling of blankness, dreamlikeness, dissolution. My indolence, since my last reception of the Sacrament,...and my dissipation spread into wilder negligence. . . . A kind of strange oblivion has overspread me, so that I know not what has become of the last... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2004 - 600 oldal
...'My indolence, since my last reception of the Sacrament,' he confessed to his diary on 21 April 1765, 'has sunk into grosser sluggishness, and my dissipation spread into wilder negligence. ... A kind of strange oblivion has overspread me, so that I know not what has become of the last year.'... | |
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