 | Leslie Stephen - Poets, English - 1902 - 724 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... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton - 1903 - 128 pages
...later he wrote to Horace Walpole, who had urged him to compose more poetry, "Till four-score and ten, whenever the humour takes me, I will write, because...so. If I do not write much, it is because I cannot." And to his friend Wharton he excused his unproductiveness, saying, "I by no means pretend to inspiration,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1903 - 404 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... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1904 - 504 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... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1905 - 354 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1911 - 120 pages
...candid (for you seem to be so with me), 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." The " Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," published in 1 751, won him immediate popularity, —... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...candid, for you seem to be so with me, and avow to you that till fourscore-and-ten, whenever the humor takes me, I will write, because I like it; and because I like myself much better when I do so. If I do not write much, it is because I cannot. . . . Mr. Boswell's book1... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 pages
...candid, for you seem to be so with me, and avow to you that till fourscore-and-ten, whenever the humor takes me, I will write, because I like it; and because I like myself much better when I do so. If I do not write much, it is because I cannot. . . . Mr. Boswell's book1... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...candid, for you seem to be so with me, and avow to you that till fourscore-and-ten, whenever the humor takes me, I will write, because I like it; and because I like myself much better when I do so. If I do not write much, it is because I cannot. . . . Mr. Boswell's book1... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - Poets, English - 1912 - 482 pages
...had told him nothing about the new edition of the Poems. " By Foulis. « Walpole to Gray, Feb. 18. •whenever the humour takes me, I will write, because...yourself, and to all such as have any curiosity or judgment in the subject you choose to treat. By the way let me tell you (while it is fresh) that Lord... | |
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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. 
