| William Hayley - 1803 - 454 pages
...for your purpose." " Aks ! Sir, " I have heretofore borrowed help from him, but he is a gentle\ " man of so much reading, that the people. of our town cannot...unintelligible too for -the same reason. . But on^ asking him iwhether he had walked over to Weston on purpose to implore the assistance of my Muse, and on his replying... | |
| William Hayley - 1803 - 348 pages
...knows, is a firft-rate maker of verfes. He furely is the man of all the world for your purpofe." " Alas! Sir, I have heretofore borrowed help from him, but he is a gentleman of fo much reading that the people of our town cannot underftand him." I confefs to you, my dear, I felt... | |
| William Cowper - 1803 - 482 pages
...is a first-rate maker of verses. He " surely is the man of all the world for your purpose." " Alas! Sir, " I have heretofore borrowed help from him, but he is a crentleo •'• man of so much reading that the people of our town cannot " understand him." I confess... | |
| William Hayley - 1805 - 228 pages
...town, why have you not .applied to some of them ? there is a namesake of yours in particular, C , the the compliment implied in this speech, and was almost ready to answer, Perhaps, my goo;] friend, they mayfind me unintelligible too for the same reason. But on asking him whether he... | |
| Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1816 - 414 pages
...a first-rate maker of verses. He surely is the man of all the world for your purpose." — " Alas ! sir, I have heretofore borrowed help from him, but he is a ?entleman of so much reading, that die people of our town cannot understand him." I confess to you,... | |
| John Evans - 1818 - 564 pages
...is a first-rate maker of verses; he surely of all the world is the man for your purpose.' ' Alas ! Sir, I have heretofore borrowed help from him ; but...cannot understand him.' I confess to you, my dear Sir, that I felt all the force of the compliment implied in this speech, and was almost ready to answer,... | |
| 1821 - 676 pages
...a firstrate maker of verses, lie surely is the man of all the world for your purpose.' — ' Alas ! Sir, I have heretofore borrowed help from him, but...gentleman of so much reading, that the people of our to uu cannot understand him.' I confess to you, my dear, I felt all the force of the compliment implied... | |
| 1826 - 440 pages
...all the world, for your purpose.' 'Alas! Sir,' replied he, ' I have heretofore borrowed help from Mm, but he is a gentleman of so much reading, that the people of the town cannot understand him.' I confess I felt all the force of the compliment implied in this speech,... | |
| William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...ba first-rate maker of verses. He surely is the man of all the world for your purpose." — "Alas! Sir, I have heretofore borrowed help from him, but...gentleman of so much reading, that the people of our town can not understand him." I confess to you, my dear, I felt all the force of the compliment implied... | |
| Thomas Taylor - 1833 - 354 pages
...maker of verses. He surely is the man, of all the •world, for your purpose. 'Alas! Sir,' replied he, 'I have heretofore borrowed help from him, but he...people of our town cannot understand him.' I confess I felt all the force of the compliment implied in this speech, and was almost ready to answer, perhaps,... | |
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