 | Charles Dickens - 1880 - 618 pages
...carries a train of anti-climax after her. I particularly notice this at the point when she thinks sue is going to be drowned. The whole idea of the story...any reservation either way. Very faithfully yours. I858. Mr. Albert TAVISTOCK HOUSE, TAVISTOCK SQUARE, LONDON, WC, Smith- Wedntsday Night, ist December,... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1882 - 360 pages
...in support of the sincerity with which I \ write this, that I am an impatient and impulsive person I myself, but that it has been for many years the constant...I should not have written so much, or so plainly, bat for your last letter to me. It seems to demand that I should be strictly true with you, and I am... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1882 - 244 pages
...beginner, to whom he was counselling patient endeavour, "an impatient and impulsive person myself, but it has been for many years the constant effort of...life to practise at my desk what I preach to you." Never, therefore has a man of letters had a better claim to be judged by his works. As he expressly... | |
 | his sister- in law and his eldest daughter - 1893 - 790 pages
...this will tell for what I mean ? How much of it is my own wild emotion and superfluous energy—how much remains that is truly belonging to this ideal...any reservation either way. Very faithfully yours. Mr. Frank OFFICE OF " HOUSEHOLD WORDS," s t°ne. Monday, First June, 1857. MY DEAE STONE, I know that... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1894 - 574 pages
...impulsive person myself, but that it has been for many years the constant effort of my life to practice at my desk what I preach to you.) I should not have...any reservation either way. Very faithfully yours. CCCXXVIII. FRANK STONE, ARA OFFICE OF "HOUSEHOLD WORDS," Monday, June 1, 1857. MY DEAR STONE, — I... | |
 | John Morley - 1894 - 624 pages
...beginner, to whom he was counselling patient endeavour, " an impatient and impulsive person myself, but it has been for many years the constant effort of...life to practise at my desk what I preach to you." Never, therefore has a man of letters had a better claim to be judged by his works. As he expressly... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1905 - 700 pages
...beginner, to whom he was counselling patient endeavour, "an impatient and impulsive person myself, but it has been for many years the constant effort of...life to practise at my desk what I preach to you." Never, therefore has a man of letters had a better claim to be judged by his works. As he expressly... | |
 | William Ernest Henley - 1897 - 264 pages
...consider : " How much of this will tell for what ' " I mean ? How much of it is my own wild emo' " tion and superfluous energy — how much remains ' " that...life to practise at my ' desk what I preach to you.]' Such golden words could only have come from one enamoured of his art, and holding the utmost endeavour... | |
 | William Ernest Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson - 1908 - 306 pages
...and about his sugar before he touches it.' 'I have no means,' he writes to a person wanting advice, ' of knowing whether you are patient in the pursuit...life to practise at my desk what I preach to you.] ' Such golden words could only have come from one enamoured of his art, and holding the utmost endeavour... | |
 | Sir Frank Thomas Marzials - 1908 - 600 pages
...beginner, to whom he was counselling patient endeavour, " an impatient and impulsive person myself, but it has been for many years the constant effort of my life to practise at my desk whpt I preach to you." Sever, therefore, has a man of letters had A better claim to he judged by his... | |
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It is in the laborious struggle to make this distinction, and in the determination to try for it, that the road to the correction of faults lies. [Perhaps I may remark, in support of the sincerity with which I write this, that I am an impatient and impulsive... 
