 | Edmund Burke - History - 1800 - 624 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1795 - 906 pages
...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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...poured out what the present moment happened to supply, and, when once it had passtd the press, ejected it from his mind ; for when he had no pecuniary interest,...reader, and, expecting no indulgence from others, he shewed none to himself. He examined lines and words with minute and punctilious observation, and retouched... | |
 | History - 1800 - 624 pages
...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... | |
 | History - 1800 - 620 pages
...was not content to fatiffy j he defired to excel, and therefore always endeavoured to do his befi : he did not court the candour, but dared the judgment of his reader ; and expeAing no indulgence from others, he fliuwed none to himlelf. He examined lines and words with minute... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 340 pages
...was not content to fatisfy ; he defired to excel, and therefore always endeavoured to do his beft : he did not court the candour, but dared the judgment of his reader, and, expe&ing no indulgence from others, he (hewed none to himfelf. He examined lines and words with minute... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...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 had no pecuniary interest,...reader, and, expecting no indulgence from others, he shewed none to himself. He examined lines and words with minute and punctilious observation, and retouched... | |
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... 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 press,... 
