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" My manner of composing poetry is very different, and, I believe, much more singular. Let the piece be of what length it will, I compose and correct it wholly in my mind, or on a slate, ere ever I put pen to paper; and then I write it down as fast as the... "
A New Biographical Dictionary, of 3000 Cotemporary Public Characters ... - Page 361
1825
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The Mountain Bard: Consisting of Ballads and Songs, Founded on Facts and ...

James Hogg - 1807 - 242 pages
...manner of composing poetry is very different, and, I believe, much more singular. Let the piece be of what length it will, I compose and correct it wholly in my mind, ere ever I put pen to paper, when I write it down as fast as the ABC. When once it is written, it remains...
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The Mountain Bard: Consisting of Ballads and Songs, Founded on Facts and ...

James Hogg - 1807 - 232 pages
...manner of composing poetry is very different, and, I believe, much more singular. Let the piece be of what length it will, I compose and correct it wholly in my mind, ere ever I put pen to paper, when I write it down' as fast as the ABC. When once it is writ• ten, it...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 132

1882 - 870 pages
...retentive memory, which he had exercised when paper and leisure were scarce. He says — "Let the piece be of what length it will, I compose and correct it wholly in my mind or on a slate, ere ever I put pen to paper; and then I write it down as fast as the А В С ; " though...
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The Investigator, Volumes 3-4

1821 - 970 pages
...manner of composing poetry is very different, and, I believe, much more singular. Let the piece be of what length it will, I compose and correct it wholly in my mind, or on a slate, ere ever I put pen to paper, and then I write it down as fast as the A, B, C. VVhen...
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The Mountain Bard: Consisting of Legendary Ballads and Tales

James Hogg - 1821 - 436 pages
...manner of composing poetry is very different, and, I believe, much more singular. Let the piece be of what length it will, I compose and correct it wholly in my mind, or on a slate, .ere ever I put pen to paper, and then I write it down as fast as the A, B, C. When...
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The Investigator (or, Quarterly magazine) [ed. by W.B. Collyer, T ..., Volume 4

William Bengo' Collyer - 1822 - 502 pages
...manner of composing poetry is very different, and, I believe, much more singular. Let the piece be of what length it will, I compose and correct it wholly in my mind, or on a slate, ere ever I put pen to paper, and then I write it down as fast as the A, B, C. When once...
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Public Characters of All Nations: Consisting of Biographical ..., Volume 2

1823 - 870 pages
...the same thing. My manner of composing poetry is very different, and, I helieve, mnch more singnlar. Let the piece he of what length it will, I compose and correct it wholly in my mind, ere I pat pen to paper, when I write it down as fast as the A, B, C. When once it is written, it remains...
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Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volume 6

Francis Lieber - 1831 - 620 pages
...manner of composing poetry is very different, and, I believe, much more singular. Let the piece be of what length it will, I compose and correct it wholly...ere I put pen to paper, when I write it down as fast aa the AB C. When once it is written, it remains in that state, it being, as you very well know, with...
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Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volume 6

Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1831 - 620 pages
...two copies of the same tiling. My manner of composing poetry is very different, and, I believe, much more singular. Let the piece he of what length it will, I compose and correct it wholly in rny ii ni и I, ere I put pen to paper, when I write it down as fast as the A Ii C. When once it is...
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The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 21

Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1832 - 648 pages
...My manner of composing poetry is very different, and, I believe much more singular. Let the piece be of what length it will, I compose and correct it wholly in my mind or on a slate, ere ever I put pen to paper, and then I write it down as fast as the A, B, C. When one...
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