 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1881 - 632 pages
...civilly, that l ought to write more, I will be candid, and avow to you, that till fourscore and upward, whenever the humour takes me, I will write ; because...so. If I do not write much, it is because I cannot.' How simply s.iid, and how truly also ! Fain would a man like Gray speak out if he could, he 'likes... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1881 - 632 pages
...civilly, that I ought to write more, I will be candid, and avow to you, that till fourscore and upward, whenever the humour takes me, I will write ; because...when I do so. If I do not write much, it is because l cannot.' How simply said, and how truly also ! Fain would a man like Gray speak out if he could,... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - Authors, English - 1882 - 246 pages
...I will be candid, for you seem to be so with me, and avow to you, that till fourscore and upwards, whenever the humour takes me, I will write ; because...so. If I do not write much it is because I cannot." Henceforward the chief events in Gray's life were his summer holidays. In May and June, 1766, he paid... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - Authors, English - 1882 - 252 pages
...However, I will be candid, for you seem to be so with me, and avow to you that till fourscore and upwards, whenever the humour takes me, I will write ; because...so. If I do not write much it is because I cannot." Henceforward the chief events in Gray's life were his summer holidays. In May and June, 1766, he paid... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1884 - 432 pages
...to confute you out of your own mouth) What has one to do when turned of fifty, but really to thinkj of finishing? However, I will be candid (for you seem...it ; and because I like myself better when I do so. llf I do not write much, it is because I cannot. I As you have not this last plea, I see no reason... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English literature - 1885 - 356 pages
...turned Gray's thoughts to the Northern Poetry. with me, and avow to you, that till fourscore and upward, whenever the humour takes me, I will write ; because...so. If I do not write much, it is because I cannot." — " Gray," says Walpole, " has added to his Poems three ancient odes from Norway and Wales. The subjects... | |
 | Christianity - 1886 - 470 pages
...till fourscore and ten, whenever the humor takes me, I will write because I like it, and because 1 like myself better when I do so. If I do not write much it is because I cannot." Chaucer was growing plumper over his Canterbury Tales, and the Divina Commedia was still making Dante... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Criticism - 1888 - 364 pages
...civilly, that I ought to write more, I will be candid, and avow to you, that till fourscore and upward, whenever the humour takes me, I will write ; because...so. If I do not write much, it is because I cannot.' How simply said, and how truly also ! Fain would a man like Gray speak out if he could, he 'likes himself... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - English literature - 1889 - 514 pages
.... However, I will be candid . . . and avow to you that, till fourscore and ten, whenever the humor takes me, I will write because I like it, and because...so. If I do not write much it is because I cannot." Chaucer was growing plumper over his " Canterbury Tales," and the " Divina Commedia" was still making... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1891 - 582 pages
...However, I will lie candid (for you seem to be so with me), and avow to yon, that, till fourscore and ten, whenever the humour takes me, I will write, because...so. If I do not write much, it is because I cannot." Work* by Jlilford, voL iv. p. 111.— WRIOHT. 1 " I found him close with Swift"—" Indeed ?"—" No... | |
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I will be candid (for you seem to be so with me), and avow to you, that till fourscore-and-ten, whenever the humour takes me, I will write, because I like it ; and because I like myself better when I do so. If I do not write much, it is because I cannot. 
