| Thomas Moore - 1825 - 654 pages
...illegitimate children ) "pater est fofulus." " You write with ease, to show your breeding, JSut eaty writing's curst hard reading." In the following passage,...I'd hold my life, in twenty years, You'd spoil the -nuiic of the ipheret. — Nay, should the rapture-breathing Nine In one celestial concert join, Their... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1825 - 564 pages
...parentage is doubtful, but to which (as the law says of illegitimate children) " pater est populus." " You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy "writing's...the tact of a man of the world than the ardour of a mi - poet, he dismisses the object nearest his heart with the mere passing gallantry of a compliment... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1825 - 586 pages
...parentage is doubtful, but to which (as the law says of illegitimate children) " pater est populus" " You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's...reading." , In the following passage, with more of the ' ._ tact of a man of the world than the ardour of a mi" poet, he dismisses the object nearest his... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1825 - 568 pages
...parentage is doubtful, but to which (as the law says of illegitimate children*) " pater est populus" 55 In the following passage, with more of the tact of a man of the world than the ardour of a 1771- poet, he dismisses the object nearest his heart with the mere passing gallantry of a compliment... | |
| Edwin Percy Whipple - 1851 - 412 pages
...loose-jointed octosyllabic lines. There is one couplet, however, which has become classic : — " You write with ease to show your breeding. But easy writing's curst hard reading." In this poem, also, there are eight lines which altogether exceed any other poetical attempts of Sheridan,... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1858 - 326 pages
...parentage is doubtful, but to which (as the law says of illegitimate children) "pater est populus." " You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's...with more of the tact of a man of the world than the ardor of a poet, he dismisses the "object nearest his heart with the mere passing gallantry of a compliment... | |
| Edwin Percy Whipple - 1861 - 420 pages
...loose-jointed octosyllabic lines. There is one couplet, however, which has become classic : — " You write with ease to show your breeding, But easy writing's curst hard reading." In this poem, also, there are eight lines which altogether exceed any other poetical attempts of Sheridan,... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1866 - 326 pages
...illegitimate children) "pater est popului." " You write with ease, to show your breeding, But eaiy writing's curst hard reading." In the following passage,...with more of the tact of a man of the world than the ardor of a poet, he dismisses the object nearest his heart with the mere passing gallantry of a compliment... | |
| 1868 - 884 pages
...moral is so pertinent to the interests of editors that I make no apology for sending it you : — You write with ease to show your breeding, But easy writing's curst hard reading. Yours obediently, ANTICACOGRAPHUS. THE RIVER TERRACE. MR. URBAN, — You will, I am sure, agree with... | |
| 1877 - 362 pages
...about Nothing, act iii. sc. 3. — Who can WRITE so fast as men run mad ? DR. YOUNG, Satire i. — Yon WRITE with ease to show your breeding, But easy writing's curst hard reading. CM' i Protest. MOORE, Life of Sheridan, vol. ip 155. Writing. — At first one omits WRITING for a... | |
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