 | Arthur Lee - 1917 - 340 страници
...I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain matters of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think that I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious. BENJAMIN... | |
 | Emma Miller Bolenius - 1919 - 360 страници
...sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious.... | |
 | William Leavitt Stoddard - 1919 - 152 страници
...sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious.... | |
 | Charles Madison Curry, Erle Elsworth Clippinger - 1921 - 718 страници
...sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious.... | |
 | William Maddux Tanner - 1922 - 616 страници
...sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think that I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious. My time... | |
 | Lane Cooper - 1922 - 344 страници
...sometimes had the pleasure of fancying 'that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious.'1... | |
 | William George Hoffman - 1923 - 316 страници
...sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extreamly ambitious.... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, Clarence Stratton - 1922 - 648 страници
...sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky 70 enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious.... | |
 | 1924 - 322 страници
...sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious.... | |
 | George Philip Krapp - 1925 - 412 страници
...sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extreamly ambitious."... | |
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By comparing my work afterwards with the original, I discovered many faults and amended them; but I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and... 
