 | England - 1831 - 1044 pages
...or seventy books for the purpose of writing in such a manner as would do no discredit to myself. I intended to spread my thoughts over two volumes quarto;...me not be accused of arrogance when I add) my own." William Wordsworth, when he dedicated, in a few lines at once modest and dignified, his Excursion to... | |
 | Joseph Cradock - France - 1828 - 430 pages
...seventy books for the purpose of writing it in such a manner as would do no discredit to myself. I intended to spread my thoughts over two volumes quarto,...I read with great attention and great approbation tbe tragedy which you sent me, and I should like to talk with you three or four hours upon its very... | |
 | Joseph Cradock - France - 1828 - 440 pages
...seventy books for the purpose of writing it in such a manner as would do no discredit to myself. I intended to spread my thoughts over two volumes quarto,...me not be accused of arrogance when I add, my own. 1 read with great attention and great approbation the tragedy which you sent me, and I should like... | |
 | Joseph Cradock - France - 1828 - 438 pages
...seventy books for the purpose of writing it in such a manner as would do no discredit to myself. I intended to spread my thoughts over two volumes quarto,...me not be accused of arrogance when I add, my own. 1 read with gteat attention and great approbation the tragedy which you sent me, and I should like... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1828 - 740 pages
...no discredit to myself. I intended to spread my thoughts over two volumes quarto, and if I had 611ed three pages the rest would have followed. Often have...Johnson, and, let me not be accused of arrogance when 1 add, my own. " I read with great attention and great approbation the tragedy which you sent me, and... | |
 | English essays - 1828 - 718 pages
...seventy books for the purpose of writing it in such a manner as would do no discredit to myself. I intended to spread my thoughts over two volumes quarto, and if I had tilled three pages the rest would have followed. Often have I lamented my ill fortune in not building... | |
 | Scotland - 1831 - 1070 pages
...or seventy books for thy purpose of writing in such a manner as would do no discredit to myself. I intended to spread my thoughts over two volumes quarto;...me not be accused of arrogance when I add) my own." William Wordsworth, when he dedicated, in a few lines at once modest and dignified, his Excursion to... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1835 - 460 pages
...seventy books for the purpose of writing it in such a manner as would do no discredit to myself. I intended to spread my thoughts over two volumes quarto;...me not be accused of arrogance when I add, my own! (*) 507. " Rasselas." Dr. Young said of Johnson's " Rasselas," that " it was a mass of sense." 508.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 402 pages
...seventy books for the purpose of writing it in such a manner as would do no discredit to myself. I intended to spread my thoughts over two volumes quarto...me not be accused of arrogance when I add, my own ! (') 507. " Rasselas." Dr. Young said of Johnson's " Rasselas," that " it was a mass of sense." 508.... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1836 - 656 pages
...seventy books for the purpose of writing it in such a manner as would do no discredit to myself. I intended to spread my thoughts over two volumes quarto ; and if I had rilled three pages, the rest would have followed. Often have I lamented my ill fortune in not building... | |
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I laid by sixty or seventy books for the purpose of writing in such a manner as would do no discredit to myself. I intended to spread my thoughts over two volumes quarto; and if I had filled three pages, the rest would have followed. Often have I lamented... 
