 | JOHN SWANN WITHINGTON - 1881 - 788 Seiten
...not that horror of having his letters preserved which Wordsworth declared he had, that, to prevent it, " he always took pains to make them as bad and dull as possible," but Kutherford thought it was an undue liberty to take with his correspondence with his friends. Doubtless,... | |
 | William Angus Knight - 1889 - 550 Seiten
...the youth who had heaped it up.f 10th August 1837. — ... In talking of letter-writing this evening, Taylor again mentioned the habits of Southey in this...took pains to make them as bad and dull as possible." J Wordsworth met his daughter Dora in London, and went down with her to Brinsop Court, Herefordshire,... | |
 | Peter William Clayden - 1889 - 502 Seiten
...Speaking of letter-writing, Taylor mentioned Southey's industry, and Wordsworth said he had such a horror of having his letters preserved, that in order to guard against it he made them as bad and dull as possible. This is a matter in which posterity takes leave to differ entirely... | |
 | Peter William Clayden - 1889 - 490 Seiten
...Speaking of letter-writing, Taylor mentioned Southey's industry, and Wordsworth said he had such a horror of having his letters preserved, that in order to guard against it he made them as bad and dull as possible. This is a matter in which posterity takes leave to differ entirely... | |
 | Dame Elizabeth Wordsworth - 1891 - 266 Seiten
...to be the very antipodes of Horace Walpole's. A propos of letter-writing, Wordsworth once said that such was his horror of having his letters preserved,...took pains to make them as bad and dull as possible. His affection for his sister, who was taken seriously ill in 1830, and never entirely recovered lost... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1925 - 252 Seiten
...his case. "Iberian were his boots," another of the blots they hit: altogether very perverse industry. In talking of letter-writing this evening, and referring...Jefferson's sacrifice of his time to correspondence, Wordsworth said that for his own part, such was his horror of having his letters preserved, that in... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1925 - 242 Seiten
...his case. "Iberian were his boots," another of the blots they hit: altogether very perverse industry. In talking of letter-writing this evening, and referring...Jefferson's sacrifice of his time to correspondence, Wordsworth said that for his own part, such was his horror of having his letters preserved, that in... | |
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Wordsworth said that, for his own part, such was his horror of having his letters preserved, that in order to guard against it, he always took pains to make them as bad and dull as possible. 