...Thus let my life slide silently away, With Sleep all Night, and Quiet all the Day. ii. Of My self. IT is a hard and nice Subject for a man to write of...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...

...Thus let my life slide silently away, With sleep all night, and quiet all the day. XI. OF MYSELF. ' is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of himself;...own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him. There 5 is no danger from me of offending him in...

...entire sincerity, the sine qua non of all genuine human intercourse. This he finds no simple task; "it is a hard and nice Subject for a man to write of himself," Cowley tells us. The golden mean is not always easy of attainment. But every worthy task has its difficulties,...

...present as if absent. " 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...

...present as if absent. " 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...