 The storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honors, I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth.  Kristo Das Pal: A Study - Seite 143von Nagendra Nath Ghosh - 1887 - 202 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | James Baldwin - 1883 - 612 Seiten
...favor? The finest passage in this letter is that wherein he refers to the untimely death of his only son: The storm has gone over me, and I lie like one...those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered around me. I am stripped of all my honors ; I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth... | |
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - 954 Seiten
...ordained it in another manner, and — whatever my querulous weakness might suggest — a far better. The storm has gone over me, and I lie like one of those oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honors ; I am torn up... | |
 | John Lord - 1884 - 506 Seiten
...was greatly afflicted by the death of his only son, in whom his pride and hopes were bound up. " I am like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me," said he. " I am torn up by the roots ; I lie prostrate on the earth." And when care and disease hastened... | |
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 620 Seiten
...the old man's days desolate and void. Burke's grief found expression than which was never nobler. " The storm has gone over me, and I lie like one of...hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honors; I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth. I am alone. I have none to meet... | |
 | 1885 - 224 Seiten
...lady, and keeps me awake with his screeching lamentations. (e.) I will die in the last ditch. (_/!) The storm has gone over me, and I lie like one of...those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered around me. 3. Identify the following passages, and add a short note on any difficulties or allusions... | |
 | 1885 - 226 Seiten
...his lady, and keeps me awake with his screeching lamentations. (e.) I will die in the last ditch. (/) The storm has gone over me, and I lie like one of...those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered around me. 3. Identify the following passages, and add a short note on any difficulties or allusions... | |
 | Essays - 1885 - 250 Seiten
...lady, and keeps me awake with his screeching lamentations. (e.) I will die in the last ditch. (_/!) The storm has gone over me, and I lie like one of...those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered around me. 3. Identify the following passages, and add a short note on any difficulties or allusions... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1885 - 728 Seiten
...wit and splendour of his best days ; but he says, " I have nothing to hope or fear in this world ; the storm has gone over me, and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane scattered about me. I am stripped of my honours ; I am torn up by the roots." He speaks of " the sorrows... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1885 - 434 Seiten
...brother and his son. Retirement from Parliament. LAST YEARS. ' The storm has gone over me, and I He like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered around me.' Letter to a Noble Lord. 1795 Thoughts and Details on Scarcity. Letter to a Noble Lord.... | |
 | Kate Sanborn - 1886 - 230 Seiten
...me have gone before me. They who should have been to me as posterity, are in the place of ancestors. The storm has gone over me, and I lie like one of...hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honors ; I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth.' " Edward Everett once gave this... | |
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