 | Tobias Smollett - 1805 - 582 ページ
...entirely devoid of the pride of being considered singular, nor of professional poetic egotism. — ' My descriptions are all from nature. Not one of them...own experience. Not one of them borrowed from books, or in the least degree conjectural. In my numbers, which I have varied as much as I could (for blank... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1805 - 500 ページ
...divinity. To love Christ is the greatest dignity of man, be that affection wrought in him how it may. My descriptions are all from nature. Not one of them...own experience. Not one of them borrowed from books, or in the least degree conjectural. In my numbers, which I have varied as much as I could, for blank... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 462 ページ
...concessions I can, that I may please them, but I will not please them at the expence of my conscience. My descriptions are all from nature. Not one of them...own experience. Not one of them borrowed from books, or in the least degree conjectural. In my numbers, which I varied as much as I could ( for blank-verse... | |
 | William Hayley - 1806 - 458 ページ
...concessions I can, that I may please them, but I will not please them at the expence of my conscience. My descriptions are all from nature. Not one of them...own experience. Not one of them borrowed from books, or in the least degree conjectural. In my numbers, which I varied as much as I could (for blank-verse... | |
 | William Cowper, William Hayley - 1809 - 460 ページ
...concessions I can, that 1 may please them, but I will hot please them at the expence of my conscience. ' My descriptions are all from nature. Not one of them...own experience. Not one of them borrowed from books, or in the least degree conjectural. In my numbers, which I varied as much as I could (for 'blank-verse... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1813 - 338 ページ
...which he so virtuously cultivated in himself. Speaking of " The Task" he says in one of his letters: " My descriptions are all from nature : not one of them...own experience: not one of them borrowed from books, or in the least degree conjectural. In my numbers, which I have varied as much as I could, (for blank-verse,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1817 - 328 ページ
...concessions I can, that I may please them, but I will not please them at the expense of my conscience. My descriptions are all from nature. Not one of them...second-handed. My delineations of the heart are from ray own experience. Not one of them borrowed from books, or in the least degree conjectural. In my... | |
 | 1819 - 896 ページ
...avowat to Unwin : " My descriptions are all from nature ; none of them second-handed. .My delineation« of the heart are from my own experience ; not one of them borrowed from books, or in the least degree conjectural." Life, vol. ii. p. 260.— It has been said, that we are indebted... | |
 | 1826 - 440 ページ
...the concessions I can that I may please them, but I will not do this at the expense of my conscience. My. descriptions are all from nature; not one of them second-handed. My del incations of the beart are from my own experience ; not one of them borrowed from books, or in... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 ページ
...concessions I can, that I may pleast them, but I will not please them at the expense o my conscience. My descriptions are all from nature. Not one of them second-handed. My delineations of the hestt are from my own experience. Not one o them borrowed from books, or in the least degree conjectural.... | |
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My descriptions are all from nature ; not one of them second-handed. My delineations of the heart are from my own experience ; not one of them borrowed from books, or in the least degree conjectural. 
