 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1772 - 300 sider
...all experience. A man of worth and name is never fo Jure to pleafe, as when he S 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... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 266 sider
...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,...reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him.' Let the tenour of his discourse be what it will upon this subject, it generally proceeds from vanity.... | |
 | 1803 - 342 sider
...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,...reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him." Let the tenour of his discourse be what it will upon this subject, it generally proceeds from vanity.... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 498 sider
...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 upon this... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1806 - 290 sider
...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...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, nor my body, nor my fortune,... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 sider
...self. The last is by far the most interesting ; it is very simply and beautifully written. Of Myself. It is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of...of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any Character of Hampden. Mr.v Hampden was a man of much greater cunning, and it may be, of the most discerning... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 sider
...self. The last is by far the most interesting ; it is very simply and beautifully written. Of Myself. It is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of...any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to bear any thing of praise from him. There is no danger from me of offending him in this kind; neither... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 494 sider
...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,...reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him.' Let the tenour of his discourse be what it will upon this subject, it generally proceeds from vanity.... | |
 | 1808 - 306 sider
...nice suhject for a man to speak of himself," says Cowley ; " it grates his own heart to say any ihing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him." Let the tenour of his discourse he what it will upon this suhject, it generally proceeds from vanity.... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1809 - 286 sider
...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...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, nor my body, nor my fortune,... | |
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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,... 
