 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 320 страници
...read, and how you spend your time, &c. &c. and to tell you what I do not read, and how I do not, £c. for almost all the employment of my hours may be best...the same dull prospect, and to know that having made fouiand-twenty steps more, I shall be just where I was -- I may, better than most people, say my life... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1827 - 468 страници
...what you read, and how you spend your time, &c. &c. and to tell you what I do not read, and how I do not, &c. for almost all the employment of my hours...fancying he makes a progress, and gets some ground ; triy eyes are open enough to see the same dull prospect, and to know that, having made four-and-twenty... | |
 | William Collins - 1854 - 430 страници
...His life was monotonous and cheerless. " When you have seen one of my days," he wrote at this time, " you have seen a whole year of my life; they go round...fourand-twenty steps more, I shall be just where I was." He wrote, during this period, letters to his friends so full of humor and elegance that we may well... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, Oliver Goldsmith - 1860 - 422 страници
...His life was monotonous and cheerless. " When you have seen one of my days," he wrote at this time, " you have seen a whole year of my life ; they go round...fourand-twenty steps more, I shall be just where I was." He wrote, during this period, letters to his friends so full of humor and elegance that we may well... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1863 - 456 страници
...neither fomething nor nothing gives me any pleafure. When you have feen one of my days, you have feen a whole year of my life ; they go round and round like the blind horfe in the mill, only he has the fatisfa&ion of fancying he makes a progrefs and gets fome ground... | |
 | 1867 - 556 страници
...a mostamu«ing business; and yet neither something nor nothing gives me any pleasure. When you hare seen one of my days, you have seen a whole year of...fourand-twenty steps more, I shall be just where I was : 1 may, better l bau most people, say my life is but a span, were I not afraid lest you should not... | |
 | Kate Sanborn - 1869 - 306 страници
...and chicken fricasse'e." In a letter to his old classmate and constant friend, Mr. West, he says : " When you have seen one of my days, you have seen a...year of my life ; they go round and round like the _blind horse in the mill, only he has the satisfaction of fancying he makes a progress, and gets over... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1882 - 246 страници
...most amusing business ; and \ yet neither something nor nothing gives me any pleasure. When you h,ive seen one of my days, you have seen a whole year of...fancying he makes a progress and gets some ground ; I my eyes are open enough to see the same dull prospect, . and to know that having made four-and-twenty... | |
 | Harriet B. Swineford - 1883 - 302 страници
...Cambridge, in order to be near the libraries ; and here his career was so quiet that he wrote to a friend, " When you have seen one of my days, you have seen a whole year of my life." Some amusing incidents are related of his quiet and retired life. He had a great dread of fire, and... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1884 - 430 страници
...leave to resume your Aristotle instead of your friend and servant, T. GRAY. H — TO RICHARD WEST. WHEN you have seen one of my days, you have seen a...the same dull prospect, and to know that having made four -and -twenty steps more, I shall be just where I was ; I may, better than most people, say my... | |
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When you have seen one of my days, you have seen a whole year of my life ; they go round and round like the blind horse in the mill, only he has the satisfaction of fancying he makes a progress and gets some ground ; my eyes are open enough to see the... 
