I have been trying these three months to do something to make people laugh. There have I been strolling about the hedges, studying jests with a most tragical countenance. The Natural History is about half finished, and I will shortly finish the rest.... Percy: Prelate and Poet - Página 156por Alice Cecilia Caroline Gaussen - 1908 - 324 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 438 páginas
...countenance. The Natural History is about half finished, and I will shortly finish the rest. God knows I am tired of this kind of finishing, which is but bungling...gaining ground ; the cry of liberty is still as loud a* ever. I have published, or Davies has published for me, otv Abridgment of the History of England,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 páginas
...countenance. The ' Natural History' is about half finished, and I will shortly finish the rest. God knows I am the land, by luxury betray'd; In nature's simplest...first array'd, But verging to decline, its splendours Opposition' s gaining ground; the cry of liberty is still as loud as ever. 1 have published, or Daviee... | |
| Sir James Prior - 1837 - 600 páginas
...countenance. The Natural History is about half finished, and I will shortly finish the rest. God knows I am tired of this kind of finishing, which is but bungling...have published, or Davies has published for me, an Abridgement of the History of England, for which I have been a good deal abused in the newspapers,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1838 - 544 páginas
...countenance. The 'Natural History' is about half finished, and I will shortly finish the rest. God knows I am tired of this kind of finishing, which is but bungling...liberty is still as loud as ever. I have published, or 1 >uvies hag published for me, ' An Abridgment of the History of England,' for which I nave been a... | |
| Sir James Prior - 1837 - 604 páginas
...countenance. The Natural History is about half finished, and I will shortly finish the rest. God knows I am tired of this kind of finishing, which is but bungling...fault as the fault of my scurvy circumstances. They begiu to talk in town of the Opposition's gaining ground; the cry of liberty is still as loud as ever.... | |
| Robert Walsh - 1837 - 572 páginas
...haste, and wrote to Mr. Langton with reference to it in the following strain :— " God knows I am tired of this kind of finishing, which is but bungling...my fault as the fault of my scurvy circumstances." To some one else he observed, " I must write a book, while you are pondering over a word or a phrase."... | |
| Sir James Prior - 1837 - 558 páginas
...Langton in 1771, in speaking of his labours in Natural History we have the admission — " God knows I am tired of this kind of finishing, which is but bungling...my fault as the fault of my scurvy circumstances." In the preface to that history in allusion to the expense as well as the labour it cost him, we are... | |
| sir James Prior - 1837 - 604 páginas
...Langton in 1771, in speaking of his labours in Natural History we have the admission — " God knows I am tired of this kind of finishing, which is but bungling...my fault as the fault of my scurvy circumstances." In the preface to that history in allusion to the expense as well as the labour it cost him, we are... | |
| Sir James Prior - 1837 - 606 páginas
...Langton in 1771, in speaking of his labours in Natural History we have the admission — " God knows I am tired of this kind of finishing, which is but bungling...my fault as the fault of my scurvy circumstances." In the preface to that history in allusion to the expense as well as the labour it cost him, we are... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 550 páginas
...countenance. The ' Natural History' is about half finished, and I will shortly finish the rest. God knows I am -, in still as loud as ever. I have published, or Davies has published for me, ' An Abridgment of the... | |
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