| John Bell - 1807 - 458 pages
...of it, I have no great reason to complain. What judgment I had, increases rather than diminishes ; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to chuse or to reject ; to run them into verse, or to give them the other harmony of prose. I have so... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 506 pages
...of it, I have no great reason to complain. What judgment I had, increases rather than diminishes ; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to chuse or to reject, to run them into verse, or to give them the other harmony of prose : I have so... | |
| John Dryden - 1808 - 500 pages
...of it, I have no great reason to complain. What judgment I had, increases rather than diminishes ; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to chuse or to reject, to run them into verse, or to give them the other harmony of prose : I have so... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 620 pages
...more of it, I have no great reason to complain. What judgment 1 had increases rather than diminishes ; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so...studied and practised both, that they are grown into i habit, and become familiar to me. In short, though I may lawfully plead some part of the old gentleman's... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 620 pages
...more of it, 1 have no great reason to complain. What judgment 1 had increases rather than diminishes ; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so...verse, or to give them the other harmony of prose. I hare so long studied and practised both, that they are grown into a habit, and become familiar to me.... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 664 pages
...of it, 1 have no great reason to complain. What judgment 1 liad increases rather than diminishes ; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so...only difficulty is to choose or to reject ; to run I In in into verse, or to give them the other harmony of prose. I have so long .studied and practised... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 504 pages
...of it, I have no great reason to complain. What judgment I had, increases rather than diminishes ; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to chuse or to reject, to run them into verse, or to give them the other harmony of prose : I have so... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 820 pages
...Was then a knave, but in diminutive. Cotton, What judgment I had, increases rather than diminishes ; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to chose orto reject. Dryde». The light of man's understanding is but & short, diminutive, contracted... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 442 pages
...Eaayt. The royal evil to malignant grtnet, Nothing the dire contagion can oppose. HaneU. Verne, or the other harmony of prose, I have so long studied and practised, that they are grown into a habit, and become familiar to me. Dryden. The trespasses of people are grown... | |
| John Dryden - 1832 - 342 pages
...of it, I have no great reason to complain. What judgment I had, increases rather than diminishes ; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty 1s to choose or to reject ; to run them into verse, or to give them the other harmony of prose. I have... | |
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