Memoirs of Richard Cumberland, Volume 1Brisban and Brannan [Printed by Robert Carr], 1805 - 356 pages |
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... write what are called his exercises , whether in verse or prose . In the former two , the tasks of construing and saying by heart , it was the usage of our school to challenge for places : In this province my good fortune was unclouded ...
... write what are called his exercises , whether in verse or prose . In the former two , the tasks of construing and saying by heart , it was the usage of our school to challenge for places : In this province my good fortune was unclouded ...
Page 56
... write , or act , it is without deliberation , without consistency , without plan . Having no ex- panse of mind , they can comprehend only in part ; they will pro- mise an epic poem , and produce an epigram : In short , they glitter ...
... write , or act , it is without deliberation , without consistency , without plan . Having no ex- panse of mind , they can comprehend only in part ; they will pro- mise an epic poem , and produce an epigram : In short , they glitter ...
Page 59
... writing in it , but as a whole it must be read with allowances , and I shall therefore pass it over , not wishing to make too many demands upon the candour of the reader . Whilst I was thus living with my family at Stanwick in the en ...
... writing in it , but as a whole it must be read with allowances , and I shall therefore pass it over , not wishing to make too many demands upon the candour of the reader . Whilst I was thus living with my family at Stanwick in the en ...
Page 63
... who rallied me out of my imitations of the stanzas of The Fairy Queen , I promised her I would write no more love elegies , and took leave of Hammond with the following lines , RICHARD CUMBERLAND . 63 And when the necessary day ...
... who rallied me out of my imitations of the stanzas of The Fairy Queen , I promised her I would write no more love elegies , and took leave of Hammond with the following lines , RICHARD CUMBERLAND . 63 And when the necessary day ...
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... writing , and one chair , and I was required to use dispatch . The passage was maliciously enough selected in point of construction , and also of character , for he had scrawled it out in a puzzling kind of hand with abbreviations of ...
... writing , and one chair , and I was required to use dispatch . The passage was maliciously enough selected in point of construction , and also of character , for he had scrawled it out in a puzzling kind of hand with abbreviations of ...
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