| Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...refinement. " I was desirous to add my name to this illustrious fraternity. I read all the poets of Persia and Arabia, and was able to repeat by memory the volumes that are suspended in the mosque of Mecca. But I soon found that no man was ever great by imitation. My desire... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1876 - 430 pages
...refinement. " I was desirous to add my name to this illustrious fraternity. I read all the poets of Persia and Arabia, and was able to repeat by memory the volumes that are suspended in the mosque of Mecca. But I soon found that no man was ever great by imitation. My desire,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 pages
...refinement. 'I was desirous to add my name to this illustrious fraternity. I read all the poets of Persia and Arabia, and was able to repeat by memory the volumes that are suspended in the mosque of Mecca. But I soon found that no man was ever great by imitation. My desire... | |
| Joseph Angus - English literature - 1880 - 726 pages
...refinement. I was desirous to add my name to this illuitrious fraternity. I read all the poets of Persia and Arabia, and was able to repeat by memory the volumes that are suspended in the mosque of Mecca. But I soon found that no man wan ever great by imitation. With slavish... | |
| William Beckford - 1883 - 456 pages
...refinement. " I was desirous to add my name to this illustrious fraternity. I read all the poets of Persia and Arabia, and was able to repeat by memory the volumes that are suspended in the mosque of Mecca. But I soon found that no man was ever great by imitation. My desire... | |
| William Beckford - Ethiopia - 1883 - 452 pages
...RASSELAS. " I was desirous to add my name to this illustrious fraternity. I read all the poets of Persia and Arabia, and was able to repeat by memory the volumes that are suspended in the mosque of Mecca. But I soon found that no man was ever great by imitation. My desire... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English fiction - 1891 - 286 pages
...refinement. " I was desirous to add my name to this illustrious fraternity. I read all the poets of Persia and Arabia, and was able to repeat by memory the volumes that are suspended in the mosque of Mecca.7 But I soon found that no man was ever great by imitation. My desire... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1895 - 660 pages
...refinement. I was desirous to add my name to this illustrious fraternity. I read all the poets of Persia and Arabia, and was able to repeat by memory the volumes that are suspended in the mosque of Mecca. But I soon found that no man was ever great by imitation. My desire... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1895 - 670 pages
...refinement. I was desirous to add my name to this illustrious fraternity. I read all the poets of Persia and Arabia, and was able to repeat by memory the volumes that are suspended in the mosque of Mecca. But I soon found that no man was ever great by imitation. My desire... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - English literature - 1911 - 664 pages
...refinement. I was desirous to add my name to this illustrious fraternity. I read all the poets of Persia and Arabia, and was able to repeat by memory the volumes that are suspended in the mosque of Mecca. But I soon found that no man was ever great by imitation. My desire... | |
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