 | Charles Greville - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 452
...moralising drudgery, which I am conscious reduces me to the level of all that is most disreputable and despicable, for my thoughts are eternally absorbed...companions, and it is like dram-drinking ; having ouce entered upon it I cannot leave it off, though I am disgusted with the occupation all the time.... | |
 | Charles Greville - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 404
...demoralising drudgery, which I am conscious reduces me to the level of all that is most disreputable and despicable, for my thoughts are eternally absorbed...companions, and it is like dram-drinking ; having onee entered upon it I cannot leave it off, though I am disgusted with the occupation all the time.... | |
 | Charles Greville - 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 556
...demoralizing drudgery, which I am conscious reduces me to the level of all that is most disreputable and despicable, for my thoughts are eternally absorbed...having once entered upon it I cannot leave it off, though I am disgusted with the occupation all the time. Let no man who has no need, who is not in danger... | |
 | 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 1090
...parchment and red tape crushed thy yearning ardor for the loose boxes and the paddock !" " March 27. — Jockeys, trainers, and blacklegs are my companions,...: having once entered upon it, I cannot leave it, although I am disgusted with the occupation all the time." Truly a long and fond " disgust," since... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1885 - عدد الصفحات: 602
...demoralising drudgery, which I am conscious reduces me to tho level of all that is most disreputable and despicable, for my thoughts are eternally absorbed...having once entered upon it I cannot leave it off, though I am disgusted with the occupation all the time. . . . While tho fever it excites is raging,... | |
 | Martin Polley - 2004 - عدد الصفحات: 522
...demoralising drudgery, which I am conscious reduces me to the level of all that is most disreputable and despicable, for my thoughts are eternally absorbed...companions, and it is like dram-drinking ; having once catered upon it I cannot leave it off, though I am disgusted with the occupation all the time. . .... | |
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... induce me to go through this demoralising drudgery, which I am conscious reduces me to the level of all that is most disreputable and despicable, for my thoughts are eternally absorbed by it. Jockeys, trainers, and blacklegs are my companions, and... 