 | Abraham Cowley - 1826 - 296 pages
...me. Thus let my life slide silently away, With sleep all night, and quiet all the day. XI. OF MYSELF. IT is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of...own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him. There is no danger from me of offending him in... | |
 | George Crabb - English language - 1826 - 768 pages
...are apt to disparage the writings of thenrivals ; ' It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself; it grates his own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him.' COWLEY. A person may detract from the skill of... | |
 | English literature - 1814 - 684 pages
...am going on with my gwn •li it:; but as the incomparable' Mr. ' Cowley observes most -ingeniowsly, it is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of it grates Iiis own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any thing... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 358 pages
...conversation.—Khensfone. ccccv. " It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself," says Cowley: "it grates his own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him." Let the tenour of his discourse be what it will... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...conversation.— -Shenstone. ccccv. " It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself," says Cowley: "it grates his own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him." Let the tenour of his discourse be what it will... | |
 | John Taylor - Quotations - 1839 - 274 pages
...Speaking of One's Self. — " It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself," says Cowley: "it grates his own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him." Let the tenour of his discourse b« what it will... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 354 pages
...the better order of his admirers. " It is a hard and nice subject," says Cowley, " for a man to speak of himself; it grates his own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any praise from him." Cowley, however, was himself an egotist, and ventured to... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - English literature - 1840 - 376 pages
...the better order of his admirers. " It is a hard and nice subject," says Cowley, " for a man to speak of himself ; it grates his own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any praise from him." Cowley, however, was himself an egotist, and ventured to... | |
 | Materials - 1846 - 478 pages
...Speaking of One's Self .—" It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself," says Cowley : " it grates his own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him." Let the tenour of his discourse be what it will... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...these essays, the author's craving for peace and retirement is a frequently recurring theme. Of Myself. It is a har anything of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear anything of praise from him. There is no danger... | |
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IT is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of himself; it grates his own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him. There is no danger from me of offending him in this kind ; neither my mind,... 
