 | William Cowper - 1817 - 328 Seiten
...necessary, and therefore take care to be constantly employed. Manual occupations do not engage the mind sufficiently, as I know by experience, having tried...without it. You ask me where I have been this summer. I answer, at Olney. Should you ask me where 1 spent the last seventeen summers, I should still answer,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 562 Seiten
...care to be constantly employed. Manual occupations do not engage the mind sufficiently, as he knew by experience, having' tried many'. But composition, especially of verse, absorbs it wholly. It was his practice, therefore, to write generally three hours in a morning, and in' an evening he... | |
 | William Cowper - 1830 - 374 Seiten
...necessary, and therefore take care to be constantly employed. Manual occupations do not engage the mind sufficiently, as I know by experience, having tried...exercise, and therefore never pass a day without it." Cowper's next letter to her, dated on the 9th of November following, is important, as it shows that... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 Seiten
...necessary, and therefore take care to be constantly employed. Manual occupations do not engage the mind sufficiently, as I know by experience, having tried...wholly. I write therefore generally three hours in a moming, and in an evening I transcribe. I read also, but less than I WBta, for I mutt have bodily exercise,... | |
 | Thomas Taylor - 1833 - 512 Seiten
...necessary, and therefore take care to be constantly employed. Manual occupations do not engage the mind sufficiently, as I know by experience, having tried...wholly. I write therefore generally three hours in the morning, and in the evening I transcribe. I read also, but less than I write, for I must have bodily... | |
 | Thomas Taylor (biographer.) - 1833 - 426 Seiten
...engage the mind sufficiently, as I know by experience, having tried many. But composition, espccially of verse, absorbs it wholly. I write therefore generally three hours in the morning, and in the evening I transcribe. I read also, but less than I write, for I must have bodily... | |
 | William Cowper, William Hayley - 1835 - 354 Seiten
...necessary, and therefore take care to be constantly employed. Manual occupations do not engage the mind sufficiently, as I know by experience, having tried...without it. You ask me where I have been this summer. I answer, at Olney. Should you ask me where I spent the last seventeen summers, I should still answer,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 456 Seiten
...necessary, and therefore take care to be constantly employed. Manual occupations do not engage the mind sufficiently, as I know by experience, having tried...without it. You ask me where I have been this summer. I answer, at Olney. Should you ask me where I spent the last seventeen summers, I should still answer,... | |
 | 1835 - 440 Seiten
...especially of verse, absorbs it wholly. I writ*, therefore, generally three hours in the morning, and in the evening I transcribe. I read also, but less than I...exercise, and therefore never pass a day without it. " I do not seek new friends, not being altogether sure<hat I should find them, but have unspeakable... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 726 Seiten
...therefore take care to be constantly employed. Manual occupations do not engage the mind sufficiently, as 1 know by experience, having tried many. But composition,...wholly. I write, therefore, generally three hours in the morning, and in an evening I transcribe. 1 read also, but less than 1 write, for I must have bodily... | |
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My dear cousin, dejection of spirits, which, I suppose, may have prevented many a man from becoming an author, made me one. I find constant employment necessary, and therefore take care to be constantly employed. Manual occupations do not engage the mind... 
