 | James Mercer Garnett - 1891 - 728 páginas
...VIRGIL, Eclogues, I. 74. 18 Here follow thirteen quatrains on the same theme. ESSAY XI. — OF MYSELF. IT is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of himself; it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement and the reader's ears to hear anything of praise for him. There is no danger... | |
 | Charles F. Beezley - 1891 - 436 páginas
...before my eyes, and, for a time, all things are blotted out of my remembrance. OF MYSELF ABRAHAM COWLEY. It is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of himself; it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear anything of praise from him. There is no danger... | |
 | 1891 - 556 páginas
...purposes to be an author, should first be a student. Dryden. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. DIFFICULTY OF. It is я hard and nice subject for a man to write of himself; it grates his own heart to eay anything of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him. Cowley.... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 450 páginas
...position for having been the pioneer in the production of our present prose style. OF MYSELF IT 1s a hard and nice subject for a man to write of himself; it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear anything of praise from him. There is no danger... | |
 | J. H. Lobban - 1896 - 324 páginas
...so every defect of the mind may have a special receipt. ABRAHAM COWLEY. (1618-1667.) ill. OF MYSELF. IT is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of himself ;a it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement and the reader's ears to hear anything... | |
 | J. H. Lobban - 1896 - 362 páginas
...so every defect of the mind may have a special receipt. ABRAHAM COWLEY. (1618-1667.) III. OF MYSELF. IT is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of himself;3 it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement and the reader's ears to hear anything... | |
 | Emma A. Yarnall - 1897 - 254 páginas
...autobiographical sketch, but all too short — we wish for more in the same strain. It is a hard and nice thing for a man to write of himself ; it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear anything of praise from him. There is no danger... | |
 | George Gregory Smith - 1898 - 338 páginas
...Praesens, absens ut s/es,— Ter, IT is a hard and nice Subject for a Man to speak of himself, says Cowley, it grates his own Heart to say any thing of Disparagement, and the Reader's Ears to hear any thing of Praise from him. Let the Tenour of his Discourse be what it will... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 páginas
...Abbey. The epic " Davideia," " Pindaric Odes," and " The Mistress " are his chief poetical works.] IT is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of himself ; it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement and the reader's ears to hear anything of praise for him. There is no danger... | |
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IT is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of himself; it grates his own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him. There is no danger from me of offending him in this kind ; neither my mind,... 
