 | Manchester Literary Club - English literature - 1884 - 536 pages
...purpose." " Alas I sir, I have heretofore borrowed help from him, but he is a gentleman of so much rending that the people of our town cannot understand him."...find me unintelligible too, for the same reason." Hut, on asking him whether he had walked over to Weston (eleven miles) on purpose to implore the assistance... | |
 | William Cowper - 1889 - 632 pages
...world for your purpose.' '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...and was almost ready to answer, ' Perhaps, my good friend,they may find me unintelligible too, for the same reason.' But on asking him whether he had... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1892 - 744 pages
...world for your purpose.' ' 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...on asking him whether he had walked over to Weston on purpose to implore the assistance of my Muse, and on his replying in the affirmative, I felt my... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1892 - 746 pages
...world for your purpose.' ' 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...I felt all the force of the compliment implied in thisspeech, and was almost ready to answer, ' Perhaps, my good friend, they may find me unintelligible... | |
 | Mark Pattison - 1895 - 570 pages
...verses." " Alas ! " replied the clerk, " 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." The compliment was irresistible, and for seven years the author of The Task wrote the mortuary verses... | |
 | 1900 - 872 pages
...have heretofore borrowed help from him, but he Is a gentleman of so much reading that the gentlemen of our town cannot understand him." I confess to you,...the force of the compliment Implied in this speech.- The wagon has accordingly gone this day to Nbrthampton loaded, in part, with my effusions in the mortuary... | |
 | Henry Charles Beeching - English essays - 1900 - 330 pages
...have heretofore borrowed help from him, but he is a gentleman of so much reading that the gentlemen of our town cannot understand him.' I confess to you,...the force of the compliment implied in this speech. The waggon has accordingly gone this day to Northampton loaded, in part, with my effusions in the mortuary... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1900 - 874 pages
...have heretofore borrowed help from him, but he is a gentleman of so much reading that the gentlemen of our town cannot understand him.' I confess to you,...the force of the compliment implied in this speech. The waggon has accordingly gone this day to Northampton loaded, in part, with my effusions in the mortuary... | |
 | 1900 - 570 pages
...verses," " Alas ! " replied the clerk, " 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." The compliment was irresistible, and for seven years the author of The Task wrote the mortuary verses... | |
 | John Bulloch, John Alexander Henderson - Genealogy - 1902 - 258 pages
...clerk, "that the people of our town cannot understand him." On this Cowper comments — " I confess I felt all the force of the compliment implied in...on asking him whether he had walked :over to Weston on purpose to implore the assistance of my muse, and, on his replying in the affirmative, I felt my... | |
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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. 
