My descriptions are all from nature ; not one of them second-handed. My delineations of the heart are from my own experience; not one of them borrowed from books, or in the least degree conjectural. Letters of William Cowper - Página 314por William Cowper - 1912 - 428 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Tobias Smollett - 1805 - 582 páginas
...My descriptions are all from nature. Not one of them secondhanded. My delineations of the heart are from my own experience. Not one of them borrowed from...no better than bladder and string) I have imitated nubody, though sometimes perhaps there may be an apparent resemblance ; because at the same time that... | |
| William Cowper - 1806 - 462 páginas
...My descriptions are all from nature. Not one of them second-handed. My delineations of the heart are from my own experience. Not one of them borrowed from...the least degree conjectural. In my numbers, which I varied as much as I could ( for blank-verse without variety of numbers, is no better than bladder and... | |
| William Hayley - 1806 - 458 páginas
...My descriptions are all from nature. Not one of them second-handed. My delineations of the heart are from my own experience. Not one of them borrowed from...the least degree conjectural. In my numbers, which I varied as much as I could (for blank-verse without variety of numbers, is no better than bladder and... | |
| William Cowper, William Hayley - 1809 - 460 páginas
...My descriptions are all from nature. Not one of them second-handed. My delineations of the heart are from my own experience. Not one of them borrowed from...the least degree conjectural. In my numbers, which I varied as much as I could (for 'blank-verse without variety of numbers, is no better than bladder and... | |
| Sir Egerton Brydges - 1813 - 338 páginas
...descriptions are all from nature : not one of them second-handed : my delineations of the heart are from my own experience: not one of them borrowed from...numbers, which I have varied as much as I could, (for blank-verse, without variety of numbers, is no better than bladder and string,) I have imitated nobody,... | |
| 1819 - 896 páginas
...My descriptions are all from nature ; none of them second-handed. .My delineation« of the heart are from my own experience ; not one of them borrowed from books, or in the least degree conjectural." Life, vol. ii. p. 260.— It has been said, that we are indebted to the misunderstanding which arose... | |
| 1826 - 440 páginas
...descriptions are all from nature; not one of them second-handed. My del incations of the beart are from my own experience ; not one of them borrowed from books, or in the leasi degree conjectural." The close of the year 1784, witnessed the completion of this extensive performance,... | |
| 1833 - 684 páginas
...he says concerning the Task, " my descriptions are all from nature, not one of them second-handed ; not one of them borrowed from books, or in the least degree conjectural." One of his learned critics has said, that " he took as wide a range in language as in matter ; and,... | |
| William Cowper - 1832 - 602 páginas
...nature. Not one of them second-handed. My delineations of the hestt are from my own experience. Not one o 0 Vw n UR ;2 fftŒ S F Y%@ ,-$v [#c6 `0 bc j 972 y [J | cuVfFF { varie< as much as I could (for blank verse without variety of numbers is no better than bladder and... | |
| Thomas Taylor - 1833 - 512 páginas
...My descriptions are all from nature, not one of them second-handed. My delineations of the heart are from my own experience ; not one of them borrowed from books, or in the least degree conjectural.' The close of the year 1784 witnessed the completion of this extensive performance, and the commencement... | |
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