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... Prayers and Meditations - Página 39de Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 192 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Sarah Jordan - 2003 - 308 páginas
...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 páginas
...'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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