Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: Its Pleasures and Rewards : in Two Volumes, Հատոր 1Harper & brothers, 1858 |
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... scarcely any contemporary name , in the same department of literature , could boast . Yet he had spent the first thirty - two or thir- ty - three years of his life not only in obscurity , but in an almost incessant struggle with the ...
... scarcely any contemporary name , in the same department of literature , could boast . Yet he had spent the first thirty - two or thir- ty - three years of his life not only in obscurity , but in an almost incessant struggle with the ...
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... scarcely ever wrote to him but to inveigh against his indolence , often actually addressing his letters on the outside , " To Mr. Heyne , Idler , at Leipsic . " In the mean time , while his distress was every day becoming more ...
... scarcely ever wrote to him but to inveigh against his indolence , often actually addressing his letters on the outside , " To Mr. Heyne , Idler , at Leipsic . " In the mean time , while his distress was every day becoming more ...
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... scarcely sufficient to keep him from perishing of hunger . After he had held this situation for above two years , his salary was doubled ; but , before he derived any benefit from the augmentation , the Seven Years ' War had com- menced ...
... scarcely sufficient to keep him from perishing of hunger . After he had held this situation for above two years , his salary was doubled ; but , before he derived any benefit from the augmentation , the Seven Years ' War had com- menced ...
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... scarcely received any education whatever until he was twenty years old . He was born in the year 1728 , in Lanarkshire ; and being the youngest of a family of ten , and the child of his father's old age , would seem to have been brought ...
... scarcely received any education whatever until he was twenty years old . He was born in the year 1728 , in Lanarkshire ; and being the youngest of a family of ten , and the child of his father's old age , would seem to have been brought ...
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... scarcely received any education at all till after he had reached his eighteenth year . He was at last noticed by a charitable ecclesiastic , who gave him lessons for about two years ; after which he completed his studies at Nantz ...
... scarcely received any education at all till after he had reached his eighteenth year . He was at last noticed by a charitable ecclesiastic , who gave him lessons for about two years ; after which he completed his studies at Nantz ...
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Էջ 168 - This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide.
Էջ 166 - Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and everduring dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Էջ 169 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt. Dispraise or blame, nothing but well and fair. And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
Էջ 218 - I was not quite thirteen when this happened; my little brother was hardly two; and we had not a relation nor a friend in the world.
Էջ 77 - take a long thin piece of whalebone, hold one end of it fast between your finger and thumb, and wind it round your finger; it will then endeavour to unwind itself ; and if you fix the other end of it to the inside of a small hoop, and leave it to itself, it will turn the hoop round and round, and wind up a thread tied to the outside of the hoop.
Էջ 194 - This kind of life — the cheerless gloom of a hermit, with the unceasing moil of a galley-slave, brought me to my sixteenth year ; a little before which period I first committed the sin of rhyme. You know our country custom of coupling a man and woman together as partners in the labours of harvest.
Էջ 195 - I had met with a collection of letters by the wits of Queen Anne's reign, and I pored over them most devoutly ; I kept copies of any of my oven letters that pleased me ; and a comparison between them and the composition of most of my correspondents flattered my vanity. I carried this whim so far, that though I had not three farthings...
Էջ 73 - ... length between my eye and the stars, sliding the beads upon it till they hid such and such stars from my eye, in order to take their apparent distances from one another ; and then, laying the thread down on a paper, I marked the stars thereon by the beads, according to their respective positions, having a candle by me.
Էջ 211 - Elegy on Aquila Rose, before mentioned, an ingenious young man, of excellent character, much respected in the town, clerk of the Assembly, and a pretty poet.
Էջ 195 - A Select Collection of English Songs, and Hervey's Meditations, had formed the whole of my reading. The collection of Songs was my vade mecum. I pored over them, driving my cart, or walking to labour, song by song, verse by verse ; carefully noting the true tender, or sublime, from affectation and fustian. I am convinced I owe to this practice much of my critic craft, such as it is.