| Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1807 - 456 pages
...eyes it is not, being but a trifle, and that triflingly handled. Your deare selfe can best witnesse the manner, being done in loose sheets of paper, most...by sheets sent unto you, as fast as they were done. In summe a young head, not so well staid as I would it were, (and shall bee when God will) having many... | |
| Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1809 - 458 pages
...The ARCADIA is a posthumous and unfinished work, and was composed, as he himself tells his sister, " in loose sheets of paper, most of it in your presence,...rest by sheets sent unto you as fast as they were don. For severer eyes," he adds, " it is not ; being but a trifle, and triflingly handled." It was... | |
| 1809 - 448 pages
...The ARCADIA is a posthumous and unfinished work, and was cornposedi as he himself tells his sister, " in loose sheets of paper, most of it in your presence, the rest hy sheets sent unto you as fast as they were don. For severer eyes," he adds, " it is not ; heing hut... | |
| John Colin Dunlop - Fiction - 1814 - 450 pages
...Sidney : " Your dear self," says he in his dedication, " can best witness the manner of its writing, being done in loose sheets of paper, most of it in...sheets, sent unto you as fast as they were done." The work, which was left incomplete, was published after the death of Sidney, and from the mode of... | |
| Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1815 - 470 pages
...eyes it is not, being but a trifle, and that triflingly handled. Your deare selfe can best witnesse the manner, being done in loose sheets of paper, most of it in your presence, the rest by 45 sheets sent unto you, as fast as they were done. In sum me a young head, not so well staid as I... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1828 - 360 pages
...friends who will weigh errors in the balance of good will, I hope, for the father's sake, it will he pardoned, perchance made much of, though in itself...by sheets, sent unto you as fast as they were done. In summe, a young head, not so well stayed as I would it were (and shall be, when God will), having... | |
| English literature - 1840 - 528 pages
...desert of forgetfulness this child which I am loth to father. It is only done for you, only to you ; for severer eyes it is not, being but a trifle, and...by sheets, sent unto you as fast as they were done. Read it then at your idle times, and the follies your good judgment will find in it, blame not, but... | |
| Charles Knight - London (England) - 1841 - 478 pages
...keep it to yourself, or commend it to such friends who will weigh errors in the balance of goodwill, I hope, for the father's sake, it will be pardoned,...by sheets sent unto you as fast as they were done." Many an immortal poem has thus been read " in loose sheets of paper," with a tearful eye and a swelling... | |
| Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - Fiction - 1841 - 720 pages
...Ви«9пипд аи biefe, bie ©rafin von QJembrofe — can best witness the manner of its writing, being done in loose sheets of paper, most of it in your presence : the rest by sheets, eent unto you as fast as they were done. 148 atte auelänbifc^en poeticen formen in ben ber SCftraea... | |
| 1845 - 410 pages
...the seat of the Earl of Pembroke, and began the ' Arcadia.' He has himself narrated who it was that advised him to undertake this task, and in what manner...attention than nineteen out of every twenty of the works of fiction that are read and called popular for a brief time, then die, and are forgotten ? The... | |
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