 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,...  Essays, Plays and Sundry Verses - Page 455by Abraham Cowley - 1906 - 499 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Abraham Cowley - 1772 - 228 pages
...his own heart to fay any thing of difparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praife from him. There is no danger from me of offending him in this kind ; neither my mind, nor my tody, nor my fortune, allow me any materials for that vanity. It is fufficient for my own contentment,... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1772 - 298 pages
...when he heart to fay any thing of clrTparagemehr, and the reader's ears id hear any thing of praiie from him. There is no danger from me of offending him in this kind-, neither my.jmiud, nor my body, nor my fortune, allow me any materials for that vanity. It is fufficient for... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1772 - 300 pages
...3 heart heart to fay any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praiie from him. There is no danger from me of offending him in this kind v neither my mind, nor my body, nor my fortune, allow me any materials for that vanity. It is fufficient... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 418 pages
...grates his own heart to fay anything of difparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praife .from him. There is no danger from me of offending him in this kind ; neither my mind, •f.or my body, nor my fortune, allow me any materials 38o ESSAYS IN VERSE AND PROSE and perhaps it... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 842 pages
...grates his own heart fay any thing of difparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any thing of paife from him. There is no danger from me of offending him in this kind ; neither •y mind, nor my body, nor my fortune, allow me any materials for that vanity. It It for my own contentment,... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 266 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... | |
 | 1803 - 342 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... | |
 | Gilbert Wakefield - 1804 - 590 pages
...moral distinctions." PALEY'S Mor. Phil. 8th edit, vol.ip 289. W. that " 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 ear to hear any thing of praise from him"." As to the Latin and Greek quotations, they whom... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 498 pages
...ut iiei. TER. -•' ** JT 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 cars to hear any thing of praise from him." Let the tenor of his discourse be what it will... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1806 - 290 pages
...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 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... | |
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