 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1926 - 234 oldal
...certain statuary, or tombstonesculptor, " a first-rate maker of verses." " Alas, sir," said the man, " I have heretofore borrowed help from him, but he is...that the people of our town cannot understand him." But if Cowper writes well upon anything that happens, he writes best when nothing, absolutely nothing,... | |
 | Jeremy Wormell - 1999 - 400 oldal
...applied to some of them ? There is a namesake of yours in particular, C.. the statuary, who, everybody knows, is a first rate maker of verses. He surely...speech, and was almost ready to answer. ' Perhaps, my pood friend, the}' may find me unintelligible, too, for the same reason.' But on asking him if he had... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1880 - 548 oldal
...statuary, who, as everybody knew, was a first-rate maker of verses. ' ' Alas !' replied the clerk, ' I have heretofore borrowed help from him, but he is...that the people of our town cannot understand him.' The compliment was irresistible, and for seven years the author of The Task wrote the mortuary verses... | |
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Alas ! sir, I have heretofore borrowed help from him, but he is a gentleman of so much reading, that the people of our town cannot understand him. 
