 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
 | Otto Ritter - 1899 - 64 pàgines
...Briefsammlung in Betracht kommen, von der Burns in dem autobiographischen Briefe an Dr. Moore (1787) spricht: 'I had met with a collection of letters by the wits of Quecn Anne's reign, and I pored over them most devoutly' — "an unfortunate acquisition, if they had... | |
 | George Iles - 1908 - 202 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 pored over them most devoutly. I kept copies of any of my own letters that pleased me, and a comparison... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - 1910 - 706 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... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke - 1911 - 444 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 Maynard Leonard - 1912 - 788 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... | |
 | 1920 - 654 pàgines
...years old, engaged several of his school fellows to keep up a literary correspondence with him. He had met with a collection of letters by the wits of Queen Anne's reign and he pored over them most devoutly. "I kept copies of any of my own letters that pleased me," he says,... | |
 | Thomas Lucian Cline - 1923 - 300 pàgines
...of my schoolfellows to keep up a literary correspondence witl 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... | |
 | Ralph Knight - 1959 - 246 pàgines
...schoolfellows 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... | |
 | 1800 - 534 pàgines
...new phalis ; and I engaged feveral of my fchool-fellows to keep up a li. terary correfpondence with me. This improved me in compofition. I had met with...wits of Queen Anne's reign, and I pored over them raoft devoutly. I kept copies of any of my own letters that pleafed me, and a companion between them... | |
 | Robert Burns - 2004 - 456 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... | |
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