 | 1851 - 592 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,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1851 - 624 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 gentleman of so much reading, that Ihr people of our town can not understand him." I confess to you, my dear, I felt all the force of... | |
 | George Bradshaw - 1858 - 650 pages
...•urely is the man for your purpose.'1 *'Ah, Sir," says the clerk, " I have heretofore borrowed his help, but he is a gentleman of so much reading that the people of our town cannot understand him " It was from calculations founded on these annual bills that Dr. Price derived his tables, which are... | |
 | 1860 - 784 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 gentleman of so much reading that the peo pie of our town cannot understand him." I confess to you, my dear, I felt all the force of the... | |
 | 1860 - 184 pages
...man for your purpose.'1 " Ah, Sir," says j the clerk, " I have heretofore borrowed his help, but j he is a gentleman of so much reading that the people of our town cannot understand him." It was from calculations founded on these annual bills that Dr. Price derived his tables, which are... | |
 | William Cowper - 1866 - 720 pages
...man of all the world for your purpose/ * Alas, sir ! I have heretofore borrowed help from him, but be is a gentleman of so much reading, that the people...of our town cannot understand him/ I confess to you I felt all the force of the compliment." (To LadT Hesketh. HOY. 27 1787 > ON A SIMILAR OCCASION.1 FOB... | |
 | William Cowper - 1870 - 226 pages
...of so mnch reading that the people of onr town caunot nnderstand him.' l confess to yon, my dear, l felt all the force of the compliment implied in this speech, and was aimost ready to auswer * Perhaps, my good friend, they may find me nnintelligihle too for the same... | |
 | William Cowper - 1877 - 462 pages
...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 gentleman of ao much reading, that the people of our town cannot understand him." I confess to you, my dear, I felt... | |
 | 1880 - 566 pages
...the statuary, who, as everybody knew, was a first-rate maker of verses." "Alas!" replied the clerk, "I have heretofore borrowed help from him, but he...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... | |
 | Goldwin Smith - 1880 - 156 pages
...the statuary, who, as everybody knew, was a first-rate maker of verses." "Alas!" replied the clerk, " I have heretofore borrowed help from him, but he is...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... | |
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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. 
