 Cousin, dejection of spirits, which, I suppose, may have prevented many a man from becoming an author, made me one. I find constant employment necessary, and therefore take care to be constantly employed. Manual occupations do not engage the mind sufficiently,...  Short memoirs of eminent men - الصفحة 117بواسطة Short memoirs - 1847 - عدد الصفحات: 143عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | 1804 - عدد الصفحات: 496
...upon that head. My dear cousin, dejection of spirits, which I suppose may have prevented many a man from becoming an author, made me one. ' I find constant...engage the mind sufficiently, as I know by experience, ha\itig tried many. But composition, especially of verse, absorbs it wholly. I write therefore generally... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1805 - عدد الصفحات: 908
...190. t ft. p. 19. 1785. 1785. '• Dejection of spirit?, which I suppose may have prevented many a man from becoming an author, made me one. I find constant...composition, especially of verse, absorbs it wholly."* 1786. " The dew of your intelligence has refreshed my poetical laurels. A little praise now and then... | |
 | William Hayley - 1805 - عدد الصفحات: 230
...upon that head. My dear Cousin, dejection of spirits, which I suppose may have prevented many a man from becoming an Author, made me one. I find constant...employed. Manual occupations do not engage the mind 4 sufficiently, as I know by experience, having tried many : but composition, especially of verse,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 402
...шалy a man from becoming an author, made him one. He found employment necessary, and therefore look care to be constantly employed. Manual occupations do not engage the mind sumaeoih, as he knew-by experience, having tried many. But composition, especially of vепе, absorbs... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1813 - عدد الصفحات: 540
...many a man from becoming an author, made him one. He found employment necessary, and therefore took care to be constantly employed. Manual occupations do not engage the mind sufficiently, as he knew by experience, having tried many. But composition, especially of verse, absorbs it wholly.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1813 - عدد الصفحات: 538
...many a man from becoming an author, made him one. He found employment necessary, and therefore took care to be constantly employed. Manual occupations do not engage the mind sufficiently, as he knew by experience, having tried many. Bat composition, especially of verse, absorbs it wholly.... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1815 - عدد الصفحات: 434
...last." t 1785. " Dejection of spirits, which I suppose may have prevented many a man from becoming so an author, made me one. I find constant employment...having tried many. But composition, especially of verso, absorbs it wholly."* 1786. " The dew of your intelligence has refreshed my poetical laurels.... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 414
...have prevented many a man from becoming an author, made me one. I. find constant employment neressary, and, therefore, take care to be constantly employed....sufficiently, as I know by experience, having tried many. Bat cornposition, especially of verse, absorbs it wholly. I write therefore, generally, three hours... | |
 | William Andrew Mitchell - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 562
...the cause of his poetry. " Dejection of spirits, ** which I suppose may have prevented many " a man from becoming an author, made me " one. I find constant employment necessary, " and therefore I take care to be constantly " employed."* • Armstrong and Mickle both lived on the banks of the... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 562
...many a man from becoming an author, made him one. He found employment necessary, and therefore took care to be constantly employed. Manual occupations do not engage the mind sufficiently, as he knew by experience, having' tried many'. But composition, especially of verse, absorbs it wholly.... | |
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