 ... nor often to mend what he must have known to be faulty. He wrote, as he tells us, with very little consideration ; when occasion or necessity called upon him, he poured out what the present moment happened to supply, and, when once it had passed the...  Lives - Stran 559uredili: - 1800Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Edmund Burke - 1800 - 624 strani
...was not content to fatiffy ; he defired to excel, and therefore always endeavoured to do his befi : he did not court the candour, but dared the judgment...reader; and expecting no indulgence from others, he (bowed none to himfelf. He examined lines and words with minute and punctilious obfervation, and retouched... | |
 | Several Hands - 1781 - 588 strani
...was not content to fatisfy; he defired to excel, and there* fore always endeavoured to do his belt : he did not court the candour, but dared the judgment...reader, and expecting no indulgence from others, he (hewed none to himfelf. He examined lines and words with minute and punctilious obfervation, and retouched... | |
 | 1793 - 738 strani
...Pope was not content to fatiffy; he defired to excel, and therefore always endeavoured to do hit beil: he did not court the candour, but dared the judgment...reader, and expecting no indulgence from others, he flicwcd none to himielf. He examined lines and words with minute and punctilious obfervation, and retouched... | |
 | 1794 - 918 strani
...Pope was not content to fatisfy ; be defired to excel; and therefore always endeavoured to do his bed. He did not court the candour, but dared the judgment...reader ; and expecting no indulgence from others, he flic wed none to himfelf. For this reafon, lx- kept his pieces very long in his hand«, while he conCdercd,... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 906 strani
...Pope was not content to fatiify ; he defired to excel; and therefore always endeavoured to do his bed. He did not court the candour, but dared the judgment...reader; and expecting no indulgence from others, he fhowed none to himfelf. For this reaCon, he kept his pieces very long in his hands, while he confijered,... | |
 | 1800 - 624 strani
...was not content to fatiffy ; he defired to excel, and therefore always endeavoured to do his befi : he did not court the candour, but dared the judgment...reader ; and expecting no indulgence from others, he ihpwed none to himfelf. He examined lines and words with minute and punctilious obfervation, and retouched... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 376 strani
...reputation, and afterwards to keep it." " He was very rarely been attainable;" but in the not cohtent to satisfy : he desired to excel, and therefore always...not court the candour, but dared the judgment of his readers; and expecting no indulgence from others, he shewed none himself. He examined lines and Avords... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 494 strani
...called upon him, he poured out what the present moment happened to supply, and, when once it had passed the press, ejected it from his mind ; for, when he...reader, and, expecting no indulgence from others, he showed none to himself. He examined lines and words with minute and punctilious observa'tion, and retouched... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 strani
...called upon him, he poured out what the present moment happened to supply, and, when once it had passed the press, ejected it from his mind ; for when he...reader, and, expecting no indulgence from others, he showed none to himselC He examined lines and words with minute and punctilious observation, and retouched... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 strani
...called upon him, he poured out what the present moment happened to supply, and, when once it had passed the press, ejected it from his mind ; for when he...desired to excel, and therefore always endeavoured to do bis best; he did not court the candour, but dared the judgment, of his reader, and, expecting no indulgence... | |
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