 | William Cowper - 1806 - 462 oldal
...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...the least degree conjectural. In my numbers, which I varied as much as I could ( for blank-verse without variety of numbers, is no better than bladder and... | |
 | William Hayley - 1806 - 458 oldal
...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...the least degree conjectural. In my numbers, which I varied as much as I could (for blank-verse without variety of numbers, is no better than bladder and... | |
 | William Cowper, William Hayley - 1809 - 460 oldal
...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...the least degree conjectural. In my numbers, which I varied as much as I could (for 'blank-verse without variety of numbers, is no better than bladder and... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1813 - 338 oldal
...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...numbers, which I have varied as much as I could, (for blank-verse, without variety of numbers, is no better than bladder and string,) I have imitated nobody,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1817 - 328 oldal
...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 oldal
...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...borrowed from books, or in the least degree conjectural." Life, vol. ii. p. 260.— It has been said, that we are indebted to the misunderstanding which arose... | |
 | 1826 - 440 oldal
...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... | |
 | 1833 - 684 oldal
...he says concerning the Task, " my descriptions are all from nature, not one of them second-handed ; not one of them borrowed from books, or in the least degree conjectural." One of his learned critics has said, that " he took as wide a range in language as in matter ; and,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 oldal
...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.... | |
 | Thomas Taylor - 1833 - 512 oldal
...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...borrowed from books, or in the least degree conjectural.' The close of the year 1784 witnessed the completion of this extensive performance, and the commencement... | |
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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. 
