 | 1824 - 744 страници
...a state of non-employment peculiarly irksome lo me. I longed for the pen, as the only remedy, but 1 could find no subject : extreme distress of spirit at last drove me, as, if 1 mistake not, I told you some time since, to lay Homer bcfofto me, and translate for amusement. Why... | |
 | 1826 - 440 страници
...it. A whole year I waited, and waited in circumstances of mind that made a state of mere employment peculiarly irksome to me. I longed for the pen as...remedy, but I could find no subject: extreme distress, at last, drove me, as, if I mistake not, I told you some time since, to lay Homer before me, and translate... | |
 | Thomas Taylor (biographer.) - 1833 - 426 страници
...it. A whole year I waited, and waited in circumstances of mind that made a state of mere employment peculiarly irksome to me. I longed for the pen as...remedy, but I could find no subject : extreme distress at last, drove me, as, if I mistake not, I told you some time since, to lay Homer before me, and translate... | |
 | Thomas Taylor - 1833 - 512 страници
...it. A whole year I waited, and waited in circumstances of mind that made a state of mere employment peculiarly irksome to me. I longed for the pen as...remedy, but I could find no subject: extreme distress at last drove me as, if I mistake not, I told you some time since, to lay Homer before me, and translate... | |
 | Thomas Taylor - 1833 - 354 страници
...it. A whole year I waited, and waited in circumstances of mind that made a state of mere employment peculiarly irksome to me. I longed for the pen as the only remedy, but I eould find no subject : extreme distress at last, drove rne, as, if I mistake not, I told you some... | |
 | 1835 - 440 страници
...it. A whole year I waited, and waited in circumstances of mind that made a state of mere employment peculiarly irksome to me. I longed for the pen as...remedy, but I could find no subject: extreme distress, at last, drove me, as, if I mistake not, I told you some time since, to lay Homer before me, and translate... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1839 - 380 страници
...replied, 9 " I have many kind friends, who, like yourself, wish that, instead of turning my endeavors to a translation of Homer, I had proceeded in the...into such a business, of such enormous length and labor, by miseries for which He did not see good to afford me any other remedy, I know not. But so... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1839 - 382 страници
...replied, 9 " I have many kind friends, who, like yourself, wish that, instead of turning my endeavors to a translation of Homer, I had proceeded in the...into such a business, of such enormous length and labor, by miseries for which He did not see good to afford me any other remedy, I know not. But so... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1843 - 388 страници
...turning my endeavors to a translation of Homer, I bad proceeded in the way of original poetry. But 1 can truly say that it was ordered otherwise, not by...into such a business, of such enormous length and labor, by miseries for which He did not see good to afford me any other remedy, I know not. But so... | |
 | William Cowper - 1851 - 790 страници
...do it. A whole year I waited, and waited in circumstances of mind that made a state of noncmpluvment peculiarly irksome to me. I longed for the pen, as...Homer before me and translate for amusement. Why it plea»ed God that I should be hunted into hucli a business, of such enormous length and labor, by miseries... | |
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God's agency upon it, as the heart, for the exercise of its graces, upon the influence of the Holy Spirit. According to this persuasion, I may very reasonably affirm, that it was not God's pleasure that I should proceed in the same track, because he did... 
