 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...me. Tlnii let my life slide silently away, With sleep all night, and quiet all the day. XL OF MYSELF. IT is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of himself; iterates his own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear anv thir* of... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - English literature - 1810 - 304 pages
...BY ADDISON. —Prattens, absent ut sie>. TER. Eun. act. 1. so. 2. Be present as if absent. "T J. 1" is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of himself (says Cowley) ; it grates his own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears tohearany... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 274 pages
...present as if absent. ' 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.' Let the tenour of his discourse be what it will... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 424 pages
...garden, painted o'er With nature's hand, not art's — •" unbought sports. — Hurd. XI. OF MYSELF. IT is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of...own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him. There is no danger from me of offending him in... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 246 pages
...me. Thus let my life slide silently away, With sleep all night, and quiet all the day. XI. OF MYSELF. IT is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of...own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him. There is no danger from me of offending him in... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 268 pages
...Thus let my life slide silently away, With sleep all night, and quiet all the day. 199 XI. OF MYSELF. IT is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of...own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him. There is no danger from me of offending him in... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 252 pages
...present as if absent. ' 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.' Let the tenor of his discourse be what it will... | |
 | 1825 - 424 pages
...sixpence, and it may be had of Messrs. Longman aud Co., or any other bookseller. Cowley observes, that " it is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of...own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him." ANSWERS TO QUERIES. (Circulator, No. XIV.) WE... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1826 - 298 pages
...Thus let my life slide silently away, I With sleep all night, and quiet all the dav^/ XI. OF MYSELF. IT is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of...own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him. There is no danger from me of offending him in... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1826 - 296 pages
...me. Thus let my life slide silently away, With sleep all night, and quiet all the day. XI. OF MYSELF. IT is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of...own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him. There is no danger from me of offending him in... | |
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IT is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of himself; it grates his own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him. There is no danger from me of offending him in this kind ; neither my mind,... 
