 | Thomas Pfau - 2005 - 604 lehte
...urgency of that knowledge, his audience is to experience that antagonism no less. "When I am among Women I have evil thoughts, malice spleen — I cannot speak or be silent — I am full of Suspicions," he writes (LJK, i: 341). Such resentful silence amounts to a precise inversion of the writer's public... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1888 - 584 lehte
...five months before, he had expressed his disinclination for female society. 'Among women,' he says, ' I have evil thoughts, malice, spleen. I cannot speak,...therefore listen to nothing ; I am in a hurry to be gone.' To this feeling the sense of his almost dwarfish height no doubt contributed. ' After all,' he adds,... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1848 - 596 lehte
...suspicion, and comfortable. When I am among women, I have evil thoughts — malice, spleen; I cannot epeak, or be silent; I am full of suspicions, and therefore listen to nothing; I am in a hurry to be gone. You must be charitable, and put this perversity to my being disappointed since my boyhood.' — i.... | |
 | 1901 - 670 lehte
...; my hands are in my pockets, I am free from all suspicion, and comfortable. When I am among women, I have evil thoughts, malice, spleen ; I cannot speak or be silent ; I am full of suspicion, and therefore listen to nothing ; I am in a hurry to be gone. ... I must absolutely get... | |
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Is it not extraordinary ? — when among men, I have no evil thoughts, no malice, no spleen; I feel free to speak or to be silent; I can listen, and from every one I can learn ; my hands are in my pockets, I am free from all suspicion, and comfortable.... 
