... are watch-makers, who themselves are wits, and who at present perhaps think me one. Here is a carpenter and a baker, and not to mention others, here is your idol Mr. , whose smile is fame. All these read the Monthly Review, and all these will set... Works: Life and Letters - Page 63by William Cowper - 1835Full view - About this book
| William Hayley - 1806 - 458 pages
...here is your idol Mr. , whose and all these will set me down for a dunce, if those terrible critics should show them the example. But Oh ! wherever else...immediately, what it has lost by sickness. We are fcorry too for Mr. 's dangerous condition. But he that is well prepared for the great journey, cannot... | |
| William Cowper - 1806 - 462 pages
...Monthly Review, * ' . ft. *,-, and all these will set me down for a dunce, if those terrible critics should show them the example. But Oh ! wherever else...dull, dear Mr. Griffith, let me pass for a genius at OIney ! We are sorry for little William's illness. It is however the privilege of infancy to recover... | |
| Elegant epistles - 1812 - 316 pages
...these read the Monthly Review, and all these will set me down for a dunce, if those terrible critics should show them the example. But oh ! wherever else...accounted dull, dear Mr. Griffith, let me pass for a genins at Olney. We are sorry for little William's illness. It is however the privilege of infancy... | |
| William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...these read the Monthly Review, and all these will set me down for a dunce, if those terrible 'critics should show them the example. But oh! wherever else...too for Mr. '• — 's dangerous condition. But he tfiat is^well prepared for the great journey can not enter on it too soon for himself, though his friends... | |
| William Cowper - 1835 - 726 pages
...all these will set me down for a dunce if those terrible critics should show them the example. Hut oh! wherever else I am accounted dull, dear Mr. Griffith,...recover almost immediately what it has lost by sickness. \Ve are sorry too for Mr. 's dangerous condition. But he that is well prepared for the great journey... | |
| William Cowper - 1836 - 602 pages
...Review," the most formidable of all my judges, is still behind. What will that critical Rhadamanthus say, when my shivering genius shall appear before him ?...dull, dear Mr. Griffith, let me pass for a genius at OlneyWe are sorry for little William's illness. It is, however, the privilege of infancy to recover... | |
| 1836 - 342 pages
...these read the Monthly Review, and all these will set me down for a dunce, if those terrible critics should show them the example. But oh ! wherever else...We are sorry, too, for Mr. 's dangerous condition J but he that is well prepared for the great journey can not enter on it too soon for himself, though... | |
| William Cowper - 1836 - 400 pages
...these read the Monthly Review, and all these will set me down for a dunce, if those terrible critics show them the example. But oh ! wherever else I am...dear Mr. Griffith, let me pass for a genius at Olney ! I am glad that Mr. Madan is pleased, and obliged to him for his intercession with Dodsley : 'tis... | |
| William Cowper - 1836 - 390 pages
...these read the Monthly Review, and all these will set me down for a dunce, if those terrible critics show them the example. But oh ! wherever else I am...dear Mr. Griffith, let me pass for a genius at Olney ! I am glad that Mr. Madan is pleased, and obliged to him for his intercession with Dodsley : 'tis... | |
| William Cowper - 1836 - 406 pages
...these read the Monthly Review, and all these will set me down for a dunce if those terrible critics should show them the example. But, Oh ! wherever else I am accounted dull, dear Mr. Griffiths, let me pass for a genius at Olney29 1" Johnson wished Mr. Unwin to review his friend's book... | |
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