 | Manchester Literary Club - 1884 - 536 pages
...purpose." " Alas I sir, I have heretofore borrowed help from him, but he is a gentleman of so much rending that the people of our town cannot understand him."...find me unintelligible too, for the same reason." Hut, on asking him whether he had walked over to Weston (eleven miles) on purpose to implore the assistance... | |
 | William Cowper - 1889 - 632 pages
...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 gentleman of so much reading...and was almost ready to answer, ' Perhaps, my good friend,they may find me unintelligible too, for the same reason.' But on asking him whether he had... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1892 - 746 pages
...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 gentleman of so much reading...I felt all the force of the compliment implied in thisspeech, and was almost ready to answer, ' Perhaps, my good friend, they may find me unintelligible... | |
 | Mark Pattison - 1895 - 570 pages
...knew, was a first-rate maker of verses." " Alas ! " replied the clerk, " I have heretofore borrowed help from him, but he is a gentleman of so much reading...that the people of our town cannot understand him." The compliment was irresistible, and for seven years the author of The Task wrote the mortuary verses... | |
 | 1900 - 872 pages
...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 gentleman of so much reading that the gentlemen of our town cannot understand him." I confess to you, my dear, I felt all the force of the... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1900 - 874 pages
...have heretofore borrowed help from him, but he is a gentleman of so much reading that the gentlemen of our town cannot understand him.' I confess to you,...the force of the compliment implied in this speech. The waggon has accordingly gone this day to Northampton loaded, in part, with my effusions in the mortuary... | |
 | 1900 - 570 pages
...knew, was a first-rate maker of verses," " Alas ! " replied the clerk, " I have heretofore borrowed help from him, but he is a gentleman of so much reading...that the people of our town cannot understand him." The compliment was irresistible, and for seven years the author of The Task wrote the mortuary verses... | |
 | Henry Charles Beeching - 1900 - 330 pages
...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 gentleman of so much reading that the gentlemen of our town cannot understand him.' I confess to you, my dear, I felt all the force of the... | |
 | Peter Hampson Ditchfield - 1907 - 470 pages
...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 gentleman of so much reading...that the people of our town cannot understand him.' ready to answer, Perhaps, my good friend, they may find me unintelligible too for the same reason.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1908 - 632 pages
...irrowcd help from him; but he is a gentleman of ~>o much reading that the people of our town can.;ot understand him.' I confess to you, my dear, I felt...and was almost ready to answer, ' Perhaps, my good friend,they may find me unintelligible too, for the same reason.' But on asking him whether he had... | |
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Alas! sir, I have heretofore borrowed help from him; but he is a gentleman of so much reading that the people of our town cannot understand him. 
