 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 446 pages
...Westminster Abbey. The epic "DavideiB," "Pindaric Odes," and " The Mistress " are his chief poetical works.] IT is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of himself ; it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement and the reader's ears to hear anything of praise for him. There is no danger... | |
 | 1899 - 802 pages
...up the temperature. — BURTON. (c) Travel not early before thy judgment be risen. — FULLER. (ct) It is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of himself. — COWLEY. (e) Like the river Arethusa, though they lose their currents in one place, they rise up... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - American essays - 1900 - 464 pages
..."The Mistress," "Pindaric Odes," "Love's Riddle," and "Miscellanies." ON A MAN'S WRITING OF HIMSELF IT is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of himself; it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement and the reader's ears to hear anything of praise for him. There is no danger... | |
 | Leslie Cope Cornford - English language - 1900 - 256 pages
...themselves, and hence the supreme charm of Cowley's Essays, more especially of this essay. — BISHOP KURD. IT is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of himself ; it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear anything of praise from him. There is not... | |
 | English essays - 1900 - 492 pages
...numberless worlds that are scattered up and down in the infinite space of the sky which we behold. OF MYSELF IT is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of himself ; 1 it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement and the reader's ears to hear anything... | |
 | William John Courthope - English poetry - 1903 - 590 pages
...variations of a single theme, the key-note to which is given in the last essay, where the writer says : — It is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear anything of praise for him. There is no danger... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - Drama - 1906 - 516 pages
...silently away, With Sleep all Night, and Quiet all the Day. ii. Of My self. IT is a hard and nice Subjedt for a man to write of himself, it grates his own heart...to say any thing of disparagement, and the Readers Eares to hear any thing of praise from him. There is no danger from me of offending him in this kind... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English literature - 1912 - 788 pages
...treats of the knowledge of myself, and instructs me how to die, and live well. THIS BUSY WORLD AND I IT is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of himself. It grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear anything of praise from him. There is no danger... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - English essays - 1915 - 518 pages
...where the braines of one Hogshead must be beaten out to make up another. — Thomas Dekker. OF MYSELF IT is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of himself; it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear anything of praise from him. There is no danger... | |
 | Allen Daniel Candler - Georgia - 1915 - 488 pages
...am there inaccessable. It is a hard & nice subject says the ingenious Mr: Cowley for a man to speak of himself; It grates his own heart to say any thing of disLetter from Mr. Thomas Bosomworth to Mr. James Vernon, Esq. paragement & the Readers ears to hear... | |
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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,... 
