 Lastly, I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein knowing myself inferior to myself, led by the genial power of nature to another task, I have the use, as I may account, but of my left hand.  Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the Tatler ... - Page 31by Nathan Drake - 1805 - 508 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1884 - 326 pages
...speeding, that if solidity have leisure to do her office, art cannot have much. Lastly, I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein knowing myself inferior...have the use, as I may account, but of my left hand. And though I shall be foolish in saying more to this purpose, yet, since it will be such a folly as... | |
 | Theodore Whitefield Hunt - 1887 - 552 pages
...author himself as to his prose — " In this manner of writing, knowing myself inferior to myself, Jed by the genial power of nature to another task, I have the use as I may account it, but of ray left hand."* As we read this we are not to forget the other declaration of the author... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1888 - 356 pages
...an art, an end and not a means. Of his political work he has himself told us, " I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein, knowing myself inferior...have the use, as I may account, but of my left hand." Mr. Masson has given an excellent analysis of these writings, selecting with great judgment the salient... | |
 | John Milton - 1889 - 464 pages
...that t if solidity have leisure to do her office, art cannot have much. \ Lastly, I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein \ knowing myself inferior...another task, I have the use, as I may account, but of J my left hand. And though I shall be foolish in saying more to this purpose, yet, since it will be... | |
 | John Milton - 1889 - 468 pages
...speeding, that if solidity have leisure to do her office, art cannot have much. Lastly, I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein knowing myself inferior to myself, led by the genial power oi nature to another task, I have the use, as I may account, but oi my left hand. And though I shall... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 436 pages
...an art, an end and not a means. Of his political work he has himself told us, " I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein, knowing myself inferior...have the use, as I may account, but of my left hand." Mr. Masson has given an excellent analysis of these writings, selecting with great judgment the salient... | |
 | 1891 - 1034 pages
...not likely to be a serviceable party hack. He was aware of his own unfitness for this drudgery : " Knowing myself inferior to myself, led by the genial...have the use, as I may account, but of my left hand." * Yet he would not refrain from a species of writing which alone enabled him to take part in a contest... | |
 | Anna Swanwick - 1892 - 412 pages
...and religious freedom through the medium of prose, " a manner of writing," as he himself tells us, " wherein, knowing myself inferior to myself, led by...have the use, as I may account, but of my left hand." His determination, on his return from the Continent, to devote his energies to the composition of a... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1892 - 1126 pages
...with leisurely care upon such a subject as of itself might catch applause, and should not choose " this manner of writing wherein knowing myself inferior...led by the genial power of nature to another task, 1 have the use, as I may account, but of my left hand." Many a man of genial temper and predominating... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 638 pages
...speeding, that if solidity have leisure to do her office, art cannot have much. Lastly, I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein knowing myself inferior...have the use, as I may account, but of my left hand. And though I shall be foolish in saying more to this purpose, yet, since it will be such a folly, as... | |
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