 | 1814 - 684 páginas
...Cowley observes most -ingeniowsly, it is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of it grates Iiis own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any thing of pr.iise from him. However,, having undertaken it, 1 intend now to go on — when I have finished it,... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 358 páginas
...nversation.—Khensfone. ccccv. " 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...reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him." Let the tenour of his discourse be what it will upon this subject, it generally proceeds from vanity.... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 páginas
...-Shenstone. ccccv. " 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...reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him." Let the tenour of his discourse be what it will upon this subject, it generally proceeds from vanity.... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 820 páginas
...subject for a man to speak of himself ; it grate» his own heart to say any thing of ¿iipxmgeintnt, and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him. Coaley. You wrongfully do require Mopsa to so great a iiiparagcment, as to wed her father's servant.... | |
 | John Todd - 1835 - 406 páginas
...age. " It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself," says Cowley ; " it grates upon his own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and...reader's ears, to hear any thing of praise from him." It is especially dangerous to speak of yourself, if your circumstances are such that you are, in any... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1837 - 478 páginas
...IT is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself,' saysCowley; 'it grates his own heait 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 upon this subject, it generally proceeds from vanity.... | |
 | John Taylor - 1839 - 274 páginas
...One's Self. — " 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...reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him." Let the tenour of his discourse b« what it will upon this subject, it generally proceeds from vanity.... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 354 páginas
...admirers. " It is a hard and nice subject," says Cowley, " for a man to speak of himself; it grates his own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any praise from him." Cowley, however, was himself an egotist, and ventured to grapple with the difficulty... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 376 páginas
...admirers. " It is a hard and nice subject," says Cowley, " for a man to speak of himself ; it grates his own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any praise from him." Cowley, however, was himself an egotist, and ventured to grapple with the difficulty... | |
 | John Wilson - 1844 - 142 páginas
...observation is made by Cowley " It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates upon his own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and...reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him." — Silvio Pellico, in his excellent work on the Duties of Men, says " To love our country with truly... | |
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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. 
