 | Samuel Eliot - 1879 - 424 pages
...determined to endeavor to improve my style. About this time, I met with an odd volume of the " Spectator." I had never before seen any of them. I bought it,...excellent, and wished if possible to imitate it. With that view, I took some of the papers, and making short hints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid... | |
 | Biography - 1879 - 244 pages
...method he pursued for that end. 'About this time,' says he, 'I met with an odd volume of the Spectator: I had never before seen any of them. I bought it,...excellent, and wished, if possible, to imitate it. With that view I took some of the papers, and making short hints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - 1879 - 424 pages
...thence grew more attentive to my manner of writing, and determined to endeavor to improve my style. About this time, I met with an odd volume of the " Spectator." I had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and was much delighted with... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1880 - 694 pages
...shall tell you how, in such a situation, I acquired what little ability I have in that way. ... 170 9. About this time I met with an odd volume of the Spectator. 161. Gruh Street. A street in London rary poems, whence any mean (now called Milton Street), production... | |
 | Richard Fletcher Charles - 1882 - 360 pages
...determined to endeavour to improve my style. About this time I met with an odd volume of the Spectator.6 I had never before seen any of them. I bought it,...excellent, and wished if possible to imitate it. With that view, I took some of the papers, and making short hints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid... | |
 | James Baldwin - English language - 1883 - 612 pages
...endeavored to model his style on that of the Spectator. In his antobiography he tells us how he did this: About this time I met with an odd volume of the Spectator. 1 had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and was much delighted with... | |
 | Loomis Joseph Campbell - Elocution - 1884 - 442 pages
...advancement, I shall tell you how, in such a situation, I acquired what little ability I have in that way. 4. About this time I met with an odd volume of the Spectator....excellent, and wished, if possible, to imitate it. ing each hinted sentiment at length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable... | |
 | James Baldwin - Best books - 1884 - 234 pages
...was borrowed in the evening and to be returned in the morning, lest it should be found missing. . . . About this time I met with an odd volume of the ' Spectator.' I had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and was much delighted with... | |
 | Improved illustrated reader - 1885 - 266 pages
...borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted. 4. About this time I met with an odd volume of the Spectator....this view, I took some of the papers, and, making shorb hints of the sentiment in each sentence, laid them by a few days, and then, without looking at... | |
 | James Baldwin - Best books - 1886 - 216 pages
...lest it should be found missing. . . . About this time I met with an odd volume of the ' Spectator.' I had never before seen any of them. I bought it,...excellent, and wished if possible to imitate it With that view I took some of the papers, and, making short hints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid... | |
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I had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and was much delighted with it. I thought the writing excellent and wished if possible to imitate it. 
