 | William Cowper - 1824 - 404 sivua
...strength of body for the task which, you say, some would impose upon me. I cannot bear much thinking. The meshes of that fine network, the brain, are composed...playing with her tail. You would believe, though I did hot say it at the end of every letter, that we remember you and Mrs. Newton with the same affection... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1824 - 598 sivua
...strength of body for the task which, you say, some would impose upon me. I cannot bear much thinking. The meshes of that fine net-work, the brain, are composed...though it were but a kitten playing with her tail." The following passages are exceedingly interesting : one on account of the insight it gives us into... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1824 - 570 sivua
...strength of body for the task which, you say, some would impose upon me. I cannot bear' much thinking. The meshes of that fine net-work, the brain, are composed...though it were but a kitten playing with her tail.' Again, in another letter, he says : ' At this season of the year, and in this gloomy, uncomfortable... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1824 - 616 sivua
...as if harlequin should intrude himself into the gloomy chamber where a corpse is deposited instate. His antic gesticulations would be unseasonable at...though it were but a kitten playing with her tail.' — vol. i. pp. 60, 6l. We can give only one more specimen of his humour. , ' We hope that Patty has... | |
 | 1824 - 612 sivua
...laughter. But the mind, long wearied with the sameness of a dull, dreary prospect, will gladly iix its eyes on any thing that may make a little variety...though it were but a kitten playing with her tail.' — vol. i. pp. 60,61. We can give only one more specimen of his humour. ' We hope that Patty has been... | |
 | 1824 - 624 sivua
...mind long wearied with the sameness of a dull, dreary prospect, will gladly fix its eyes on any thinr that may make a little variety in its contemplations, though it were but a LniMi playing with her tail." The following passages are exceedingly interesting : one on account of... | |
 | William Cowper - 1830 - 374 sivua
...surface." On sending Mr. Hill an enigma in July, 1780, he thus adverted to his habitual dejection : " My enigma will probably find you out, and you will...though it were but a kitten playing with her tail." From that dejection, however, nothing so effectually raised his spirits as poetry. Of this he was fully... | |
 | John Philips Potter - 1830 - 360 sivua
...with the sameness of a dull, " dreary prospect, will gladly fix its eyes on * Vol. I. pp. 128, 129. " any thing that may make a little variety " in its...though it were but " a kitten playing with her tail."* The volumes of letters which Dr. Johnson (a cousin, and faithful friend of Cowper in his last sorrows)... | |
 | 1835 - 306 sivua
...mind, long wearied with the sameness of a dull, dreary prospect, will gladly fix its eyes on anything that may make a little variety in its contemplations, though it were but a kitten playing with its tail." Early in 1780, Cowper lost a valued friend, and almost his only associate, by the removal... | |
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Indeed I wonder that a sportive thought should ever knock at the door of my intellects, and still more that it should gain admittance. It is as if harlequin should intrude himself into the gloomy chamber where a corpse is deposited in state. His antic... 
