 | 1804 - 572 oldal
...very peculiar character : for he remarks in one of his letters ; * Strange as it may seem, the most ludicrous lines I ever wrote have been written in...eminent writers, particularly those of Pope and Cowper j which the editor modestly calls 'Desultory Remarks,' but which the reader will not find to be so... | |
 | William Cowper - 1804 - 480 oldal
...engages me sometimes in the arduous task of being merry by force. And strange as it may seem, the most ludicrous lines I ever wrote, have been written in the saddest mood, and but for that saddest mood perhaps had never been written at all. I hear from Mrs. Newton, that some great persons... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 462 oldal
...engages me sometimes in the arduous task of being merry by force. And strange as it may seem, the most ludicrous lines I ever wrote, have been written in the saddest mood, and but for that saddest mood, perhaps had never been written at all. I hear from Mrs. Newton, that some great persons... | |
 | William Cowper, William Hayley - 1809 - 460 oldal
...engages me sometimes in the arduous task of being merry by force. And strange as it may seem the most ludicrous lines I ever wrote, have been written in the saddest mood, and but for that saddest mood, perhaps had never been written at all. I hear from Mrs. Newton, that some great perr... | |
 | William Hayley - 1812 - 430 oldal
...engages me sometimes in the arduous task of being merry by force. And, strange as it may seem, the most ludicrous lines I ever wrote have been written in the saddest mood, and, but for that saddest mood, perhaps had never been written at all. I hear from Mrs. Newton, that some great persons... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 316 oldal
...in the arduous task of being merry by force. And strange as it may seem, the most ludicrous lines [ ever wrote, have been written in the saddest mood, and, but for that saddest mood, perhaps had never been written at all. I hear from Mrs. Newton, that some great persons... | |
 | William Cowper - 1817 - 324 oldal
...engages me sometimes in the arduous task of being merry by force. And, strange as it may seem, the most ludicrous lines I ever wrote have been written in the saddest mood, and, but for that saddest mood, perhaps had never been written at all. I hear from Mrs. Newton, that some great persona... | |
 | 1830 - 480 oldal
...during one of his tits of morbid dejection, and he himself says " Strange as it may seem, the most ludicrous lines I ever wrote have been written in the saddest mood, and but for that saddest mood, perhaps, had never been written at all. ***** I have never heard any one who fulfilled... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1830 - 528 oldal
...during one of hie fits of morbid dejection, end he himself lays. "Strange at it may seem, the most ludicrous lines I ever wrote have been written in the saddest mood, and bnt for that saddest mood, perhaps, had never been written at nil." f The reconciliation which look... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1831 - 576 oldal
...fits of morbid dejection, and he himself says, " Strange as it may seem, the most ludicrous lines 1 ever wrote have been written in the saddest mood, and but for that saddest mood, perhaps, had never been written at all." t The reconciliation which took place between... | |
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If I trifle, and merely trifle, it is because I am reduced to it by necessity - a melancholy, that nothing else so effectually disperses, engages me sometimes in the arduous task of being merry by force. And, strange as it may seem, the most ludicrous... 
