 | Half hours - 1847 - 616 ページ
...bleeding heart, With all its throbs, its agonies. — Oh Fazio ! Oh Fazio ! 339.— OF MYSELF, COWLEY. IT is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of himself; it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear anything of praise from him. There is no danger... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 ページ
...these essay*, the author's craving for peace and retirement is a frequently recurring theme. QfMyxlf. ll The sighs that now unpiticd rise, The tears that rainly anything of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear anything of praise from him. There is no danger... | |
 | 1847 - 436 ページ
...to mankind which is the fulness and consummation of the inclination to do good.- — Emmanuel Kant. IT is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of himself : it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear anything of praise from him.^-Coielty. NB... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 ページ
...shall here introduce, as an appropriate specimen, the following account of himself : — OF MYSELF. It is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of...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... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 ページ
...shall here introduce, as an appropriate specimen, the following account of himself: — OP MYSELF. It is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of...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... | |
 | Edward Butt - 1852 - 680 ページ
...SPEAKING OF ONE'S SELF. " 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, and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him." Let the tenor of his discourse be what it will... | |
 | C. Gough - 1853 - 428 ページ
...never seen her own face. EGOTISM. " IT is a hard and nice subject," says Cowley, " for a man to speak 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." DOCTOR JOHNSON. WHEN Mrs. Hannah Moore asked him... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 554 ページ
...servant, &c.' ADDISON. No. 562. FRIDAY, JULY 2. Prcesens, absens ut sies. TER. Be present as if absent. ' IT is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of himself (says Cowley); it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 698 ページ
...present 19 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, and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him.' ' Let the tenor of his discourse be what it will,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 710 ページ
...present as if absent. ' IT is a hard and nice subjeet for a man to speak of himself, (says Cowley :) it grates his own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him.' ' Let the tenor of his diseourse be what it ^11.... | |
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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,... 
