 | Goldwin Smith - Authors, English - 1880 - 156 pages
...verses." "Alas!" replied the clerk, " I have heretofore borrowed help from him, but he is a gentleman of so much reading that the people of our town cannot understand him." The compliment was irresistible, and for seven years the author of The Task wrote the mortuary verses... | |
 | Goldwin Smith - Authors, English - 1880 - 156 pages
...verses." "Alas!" replied the clerk, " I have heretofore borrowed help from him, but he is a gentleman of so much reading that the people of our town cannot understand him." The compliment was irresistible, and for seven years the author of The Task wrote the mortuary verses... | |
 | Authors, English - 1880 - 566 pages
...verses." "Alas!" replied the clerk, "I have heretofore borrowed help from him, but he is a gentleman of so much reading that the people of our town cannot understand him." The compliment was. irresistible, and for seven years the author of The Task wrote the mortuary verses... | |
 | Goldwin Smith - Authors, English - 1880 - 156 pages
...verses." "Alas!" replied the clerk, " I have heretofore borrowed help from him, but he is a gentleman'of so much reading that the people of our town cannot understand him." The compliment was irresistible, and for seven years the author of The Task wrote the mortuary verses... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - Humanities - 1884 - 436 pages
...world for your purpose.' ' Alas ! Sir, I have heretofore borrowed help from him, but he is a gentleman of so much reading that the people of our town cannot...unintelligible too, for the same reason.' But on asking him whether he had walked over to Weston (eleven miles) on purpose to implore the assistance of my muse,... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1884 - 436 pages
...world for your purpose.' ' Alas ! Sir, I have heretofore borrowed help from him, but he is a gentleman of so much reading that the people of our town cannot...unintelligible too, for the same reason.' But on asking him whether he had walked over to Weston (eleven miles) on purpose to implore the assistance of my muse,... | |
 | Manchester Literary Club - English literature - 1884 - 536 pages
...purpose." " Alas I sir, I have heretofore borrowed help from him, but he is a gentleman of so much rending that the people of our town cannot understand him."...find me unintelligible too, for the same reason." Hut, on asking him whether he had walked over to Weston (eleven miles) on purpose to implore the assistance... | |
 | William Cowper - 1889 - 632 pages
...world for your purpose.' 'Alas ! sir, I have heretofore borrowed help from him; but he is a gentleman of so much reading that the people of our town cannot...and was almost ready to answer, ' Perhaps, my good friend,they may find me unintelligible too, for the same reason.' But on asking him whether he had... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1892 - 744 pages
...world for your purpose.' ' Alas ! sir, I have heretofore borrowed help from him ; but he is a gentleman of so much reading that the people of our town cannot...unintelligible too, for the same reason.' But on asking him whether he had walked over to Weston on purpose to implore the assistance of my Muse, and on his replying... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1892 - 746 pages
...world for your purpose.' ' Alas ! sir, I have heretofore borrowed help from him ; but he is a gentleman of so much reading that the people of our town cannot...I felt all the force of the compliment implied in thisspeech, and was almost ready to answer, ' Perhaps, my good friend, they may find me unintelligible... | |
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Alas ! sir, I have heretofore borrowed help from him ; but he is a gentleman of so much reading that the people of our town cannot understand him. 
