 | William Hayley - 1803
...fufficiently, as I know by experience, having tried many. But compofition, efpecially of verfe, abforbs it wholly. I write therefore generally three hours in a morning, and in an evening I tranfcribe. I read alfo, but lefs than I write, for I muft have bodily exercife, and therefore never... | |
 | 1804
...employed. Manual occupations do not engage the mind sufficiently, as I know by experience, ha\itig tried many. But composition, especially of verse,...without it. You ask me where I have been this summer. I answer, at Olncy. Should you ask me where I spent ihe last seventeen summers, I should still answer,... | |
 | Sydney Smith, Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey, Macvey Napier, William Empson, Sir George Cornewall Lewis, Henry Reeve, Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot (Hon.), Harold Cox - 1804
...fufficiently, as I know by experience, having tried many. But compofition, efpecially of verle, abforbs it wholly. I write, therefore, generally three hours in a morning, and in an evening I tranfciibe. 1 read alfo, but lefs than I •write.' Vol. ip 147. In a preceding letter, he fpeaks of... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1805
...necessary, and therefore take care to be constantly employed. Manual occupations do not engage the mind sufficiently, as I know by experience, having tried...composition, especially of verse, absorbs it wholly."* 1786. " The dew of your intelligence has refreshed my poetical laurels. A little praise now and then... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806
...necessary, and therefore take care to be constantly employed. Manual occupations do not engage the mind sufficiently, as I know by experience, having tried...it. "... You ask me where I have been this summer. I answer, at Olney. Should you ask me where I spent the last seventeen summers, I should still answer,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1809
...necessary, and therefore take care to be constantly employed. Manual occupations do not engage the mind sufficiently, as I know by experience, having tried...without it. You ask me where I have been this summer. I answer, at Oln.ey. Should you ask me where I spent the last seventeen summers, I should still answer,... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812
...necessary, and therefore take care to be constantly employed. Manual occupations do not engage the mind sufficiently ; as I know by experience, having tried...without it. You ask me where I have been this summer. I answer, at Olney. Should you ask me where I spent the last seventeen last summers, I should still answer,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1813
...care to be constantly employed. Manual occupations do not engage the mind sufficiently, as he knew by experience, having tried many. But composition, especially of verse, absorbs it wholly. It was his practice, therefore, to write generally three hours in a morning, and in an evening he transcribed.... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1815
...necessary, and therefore take care to be constantly employed. Manual occupations do not engage the mind sufficiently, as I know by experience, having tried many. But composition, especially of verso, absorbs it wholly."* 1786. " The dew of your intelligence has refreshed my poetical laurels.... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 392
...do not. engage the mind sufficiently, as I know by experience, having tried many. Bat cornposition, especially of verse, absorbs it wholly. I write therefore, generally, three hours in the morning, and in an evening I transcribe. I read also, but. less than I write, for I must have bodily... | |
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My dear cousin, dejection of spirits, which, I suppose, may have prevented many a man from becoming an author, made me one. I find constant employment necessary, and therefore take care to be constantly employed. Manual occupations do not engage the mind... 
