 | Abraham Cowley - Literary Collections - 1915 - 416 pages
...Thus let my life slide silently away, With Sleep all Night, and Quiet all the Day. 11. Of My self. IT is a hard and nice Subject for a man to write ot himself, it grates his own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the Readers Eares to hear... | |
 | William Frank Bryan, Ronald Salmon Crane - English essays - 1916 - 576 pages
...metropolis, but can abstain from ever seeing the next market town of their country. OF MYSELF (1668) 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... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - Great Britain - 1918 - 396 pages
...Breath, and then reduce them to half the Number. 60. ABRAHAM COWL E Y. Born 1618. Died 1667. Of My f elf. It is a hard and nice Subject for a man to write of...himself, it grates his own heart to say any thing of disparage10 ment, and the Readers Eares to hear any thing of praise from him. There is no danger from... | |
 | Ernest Rhys, Lloyd Vaughan - English essays - 1920 - 522 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 hims*lf ; it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear anything... | |
 | Rudolph Wilson Chamberlain, Joseph Sheldon Gerry Bolton - American prose literature - 1923 - 396 pages
...published posthumously in 1688 as one of Several Discourses by Ways of Essays, in Perse and Prose. 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... | |
 | Burges Johnson - Essay - 1927 - 340 pages
...today not merely as literary curiosities but for their vitality and charm. OF MYSELF BY ABRAHAM COWLEY 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... | |
 | Harold Nicolson - Biography as a literary form - 1927 - 170 pages
...autobiography, but I do not pretend that it has had a great past. I agree with Cowley. "It is," he writes, "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." Having thus... | |
 | Harry Bryan Owsley - British Americans - 1890 - 232 pages
...of kindred to write concerning themselves or their own families, lies in the fact that it is always a hard and nice subject for a man to write of himself or his kindred, as he invariably hesitates to write according to his own estimate ; and is so surely... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 172 pages
...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;... | |
 | 516 pages
...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... | |
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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,... 
