 For the first day or two I felt stunned — overwhelmed. I could only apprehend my felicity ; I was too confused to taste it sincerely. I wandered about, thinking I was happy, and knowing that I was not. I was in the condition of a prisoner in the old...  The Spirit of the English Magazines - Page 3171825Full view - About this book
 | 1908 - 1144 pages
...in the condition of a prisoner suddenly let loose after a forty years' confinement in the Bastille. I could scarce trust myself with myself. It was like passing out of time ialo eternity — for it is a sort of eternity for a man to have his time all to himself. It seemed... | |
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