 | Thomas Gray, Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith - 1926 - 206 páginas
...apartment, which is very cold at present. It will be the easier task, as you have nothing to do but 20 transcribe your little red books, if they are not...times worse than a lead pencil : Half a word fixed upon or near the spot, is worth a cart-load of recollection. When we trust to the picture that objects... | |
 | 1841 - 782 páginas
...the same advice to his friends : — " You have nothing to do," he wrote to iLr. Palgravc,* " but to transcribe your little red books, if they are not rubbed out ; for I conclude you have not trusted any thing to memory, which is ten times worse than a lead pencil." 13oswell, who has not, perhaps,... | |
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... furnish the apartments ? I almost envy your last month, being in a very insipid situation myself; and desire you would not fail to send me some furniture for my Gothic apartment, which is very cold at present. It will be the easier task, as you have... 
