 | Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances) - English fiction - 1862 - 260 pages
...husband in whom, only a few hours before, she had boasted of "implicit confidence !" CHAPTER XX. "!T is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of himself," says Cowley. "It grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement ; and the reader's ears, to... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...collocation simple and perspicuous, and the members of his sentences distinct and harmonious." ON 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1864 - 470 pages
...Be present as if absent. ' IT is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself,' saysCowley; '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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...collocation simple and perspicuous, and the members of his sentences digI;IK i and harmonious." ON MYSELF. It is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of...his own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and tha reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him. There is no danger from me of offending him... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - Essays - 1868 - 240 pages
...Thus let my life slide silently away, With sleep all night, and quiet all the day. XL OF MYSELF. T is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of himself...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... | |
 | Henry Sweetser Burrage - United States - 1868 - 408 pages
...childhood and youth : — "BROWN UNIVERSITY, PROVIDENCE, RI, 1847. • "Cowley speaks truly, when he says, 'it is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of himself; it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ear, to hear anything of praise from him.' As you have... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...ABRAHAM COWLEY.1 1. OF MYSELF. ;FBOM "ESSAYS," PUBLISHED IN 1656.) IT ia a hard and nice (delicate) subject for a man to write of himself ; it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement,2 and the reader's ears to hear anything of praise from him. There is no... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1869 - 248 pages
...life slide silently away, With sleep all night, and quiet all the day. I XI. OF MYSELF. T is a bard and nice subject for a man to write of himself ;*...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... | |
 | English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...of George Stephenson. SECTION IV. NARRATIVE. [ABRAHAM COWLEY. 1615 — 1667.] A POET'S CONFESSION. IT is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of himself; it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear anything of praise from him. There is no danger... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1872 - 786 pages
...simple and perspicuous, and the members of his зешсшч» distinct and harmonious." ON MÏSELF. It is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of himself: it crates his own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any thing of... | |
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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,... 
