 ... Lord Orford), were, for the most part, as completely out of my reach as a crown and sceptre. There was, indeed, a resource ; but the utmost caution and secrecy were necessary in applying to it. I beat out pieces of leather as smooth as possible, and...  The Table Book... - Seite 25von William Hone - 1827 - 870 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1837 - 218 Seiten
...out pieces of leather as smooth as possible, and wrought my problems on them with a blunted awl ; for the rest, my memory was tenacious, and I could multiply and divide by it to a great extent.' and sometimes with f.ivors more substantial ; little collections were now nnd then made, and he often... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 Seiten
...out pieces of leather as smooth u possible, and wrought my problems on them with a blunted awl : for equered and speckled ; he put together a piece of Joinery во crossly indent grest eitent" He next tried poetry, and some of his 'lamentable doggerel' falling into the hands of... | |
 | John Aikin - 1852 - 792 Seiten
...out pieces of leather as smooth as possible, and wrought my problems on ihem with a blunted awl ; for hem unalarm'd. Not Under the same unfavourable circumstances, he composed and recited to his associates small pieces of... | |
 | William Jerdan - 1853 - 476 Seiten
...R. Evans, 1802, he says : — " Hitherto I had not so much as dreamed of poetry : indeed, I scarce knew it by name ; and, whatever may be said of the force of nature, I certainly never ' lisped in numbers." I recollect the occasion of my first attempt. It is, like all the rest of my... | |
 | William Jerdan - 1853 - 466 Seiten
...public. In the Preface to his Juvenal, published by G. and W. Nicol and K. Evans, 1802, he says : — " Hitherto I had not so much as dreamed of poetry : indeed, I scarce knew it by name ; and, whatever may be said of the force of nature, I certainly never ' lisped... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1854 - 732 Seiten
...out pieces of leather as smooth as possible, and wrought my problems on them with a blunted awl ; for the rest, my memory was tenacious, and I could multiply and divide by it to a great extent." He essayed the composition of rhyme, and the rehearsal of his verses secured him a few pence from his... | |
 | 1855 - 424 Seiten
...picces of leather as smooth as pos. sible, and wrought my problems on them with a blunted awl; for the rest, my memory was tenacious, and I could multiply and divide by it to a great extent" We might havf,, brought forward numerous other instances, but we deem the preceding sufficicnt for... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1858 - 300 Seiten
...out pieces of leather as smooth as possible, and wrought my problems on them with a blunted awl ; for the rest, my memory was tenacious, and I could multiply and divide by it to a great extent." No situation, it is obvious, could be more unfa vourable for study than this ; and yet we see how the... | |
 | Graduated series - 1859 - 462 Seiten
...out pieces of leather as smooth as possible, and wronght my problems on them with a blunted awl ; for the rest, my memory was tenacious, and I could multiply...great extent. Hitherto I had not so much as dreamed of versifying — indeed, I scarcely knew poetry by name ; and, whatever may be said of the force of nature,... | |
 | William Hone - 1859 - 918 Seiten
...smooth as possible and wrought my problems on them with a blunted awl: for the rest, my memory wa* tenacious, and I could multiply and divide by it,...Hitherto I had not so much as dreamed of poetry : indeed 1 scarcely knew it by name ; and, whatever may be said of the force of nature, I certainly never "... | |
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