 I had met with a collection of letters by the wits of Queen Anne's reign, and I pored over them most devoutly; I kept copies of any of my own letters that pleased me; and a comparison between them and the composition of most of my correspondents, flattered...  Annual Register - Pàgina 321editat per - 1801Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Charles Rogers - 1891 - 412 pàgines
...of my school-fellows to keep up a literary correspondence with me. This improved me in composition. I had met with a collection of letters by the wits of Queen Anne's reign, and I pored over them most devoutly. I kept copies of any of my own letters that pleased me ; and a comparison between them... | |
 | James Craig Higgins - 1893 - 252 pàgines
...of my schoolfellows to keep up a literary correspondence with me. This improved me in composition. I had met with a collection of letters by the wits of Queen Anne's reign, and I pored over them most devoutly. I kept copies of any of my own letters that pleased me ; and a comparison between them... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1893 - 354 pàgines
...however, that he was considerably improved. He had obtained the poems of Thomson and Shenstone,1 and a collection of letters by the wits of Queen Anne's reign ; and he had agreed with several of his fellow students to keep up a literary correspondence, with the view... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - 1896 - 710 pàgines
...of my schoolfellows to keep up a literary correspondence with me. This improved me in composition. I had met with a collection of letters by the wits of Queen Anne's reign, and I pored over them most devoutly. I kept copies of any of my own letters that pleased me, and a comparison between them... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - 1896 - 710 pàgines
...of my schoolfellows to keep up a literary correspondence with me. This improved me in composition. I had met with a collection of letters by the wits of Queen Anne's reign, and I pored over them most devoutly. I kept copies of any of my own letters that pleased me, and a comparison between them... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1896 - 428 pàgines
...is characterized by spontaneity and grace ; his prose too often by affectation and dress. He says, "I had met with a collection of letters by the wits of Queen Anne's reign, and I pondered over them most devoutly." In his Tarbolton days he piqued himself on his ability to write... | |
 | Sir William Alexander Craigie - 1896 - 244 pàgines
...a practice very early begun — immediately after his return from Kirkoswald. "I had met," he says, "with a collection of letters by the wits of Queen Anne's reign, and I pored over them most devoutly. I kept copies of any of my own letters that pleased me, and a comparison between them... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1896 - 462 pàgines
...to keep up a literary correspondence with me. — This last helped me much on in composition.* — I had met with a collection of letters by the Wits of Queen Ann's reign, and I pored over them most devoutly. — I kept copies of any of my own letters that pleased... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1897 - 176 pàgines
...characterized by spontaneity and grace ; his prose too often by affectation and dress. He says : " I had met with a collection of letters by the wits of Queen Anne's reign, and I pondered over them most devoutly." In his Tarbolton days he piqued himself on his ability to write... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1897 - 180 pàgines
...characterized by spontaneity and grace ; his prose too often by affectation and dress. He says : " I had met with a collection of letters by the wits of Queen Anne's reign, and I pondered over them most devoutly." In his Tarbolton days he piqued himself on his ability to write... | |
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