| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 páginas
...some furniture for my Gothic apartment, which is very cold at present. It will be the easier task, as d.] Gentlemen, as they mayn't be good enough company...step down for a moment, and I'll be with you in the everything to memory, which is ten times worse than a lead pencil. Half a word fixed upon or near the... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 páginas
...some furniture for my Gothic apartment, which is very cold at present. It will be the easier task, as matter, and whether he was afraid of the warrior arc not rubbed out ; for I conclude you have not trusted everything to memory, which is ten times worse... | |
| Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1849 - 256 páginas
...a landscape, and advised his friends to do the same. "You have nothing," he wrote to one, " but to transcribe your little red books, if they are not rubbed out; for I conclude you have not trusted anything to memory, which is ten times worse than a lead pencil." The wish is felt by every reader,... | |
| Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1858 - 236 páginas
...features of a landscape, and advised his friends to follow his example. " You have nothing to do, but to transcribe your little red books, if they are not rubbed out ; for I conclude you have not trusted i: anything to memory, which is ten times worse than a lead pencil." The wish is felt by every reader,... | |
| John Timbs - 1872 - 104 páginas
...languish and quite moulder away with them. MEMORY TREACHEROUS. Gray, the poet, in a letter to Mason, says, "You have nothing to do but transcribe your little red books, if they arc not rubbed out ; for I conclude you have not trusted everything to memory, which is ten times worse... | |
| 1881 - 602 páginas
...Nature, he took notes as he traveled, on the spot He would not " trust to memory," for, said he, " it Is ten times Worse than a lead pencil. Half a word fixed on or Sear the spot Is worth a cart load of recollection." On one of these occasions he said, " Not a precipice,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1881 - 842 páginas
...furniture for my Gothic apartment, which is very cold at present. It will be tbe easier task, as yon have nothing to do but transcribe your little red books, if they are nol rubbed out ; for I conclude you have not trusted every tbing to memory, which is ten times worse... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1884 - 436 páginas
...some furniture for my Gothic apartment, which is very cold at present. It will be the easier task, as you have nothing to do but transcribe your little...not rubbed out ; for I conclude you have not trusted everything to memory, which is ten times worse than a lead pencil : half a word fixed upon or near... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1884 - 430 páginas
...furniture for my \Jothic -apartment, which is very cold at present."} It will be the easier task, as you have nothing to do but transcribe your little...not rubbed out ; for I conclude you have not trusted everything to memory, which is ten times worse than a lead pencil : half a word fixed upon or near... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1884 - 430 páginas
...your little red books, if they are not rubbed out ; for I conclude you have not trusted everything to memory, which is ten times worse than a lead pencil : half a word fixed upon or near the spot, is worth a cartload of recollection. When we trust to the picture that objects... | |
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