 | 1889 - 864 páginas
...with a chill upon my mind, and no doubt have laid down the pen at once; for as I have already said, it was not that I cared about writing a history, but that I felt an inevitable impulse to write one particular history. Fortified by this encouragement. Motley set himself to write his history, but after... | |
 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1878 - 504 páginas
...write the book I had been thinking much of, even if it were destined to fall dead from the press. ... It was not that I cared about writing a history, but that I felt an inevitable impulse to write one particular history." After beginning the work, he found that he must seek its' sources in Europe, and... | |
 | George Ticknor - 1863 - 482 páginas
...a chill upon my mind, and, no doubt, have laid down the pen at once ; for, as I have already said, it was not that I cared about writing a history, but that I felt an inevitable impulse to write one particular history. You know how kindly he always spoke of and to me ; and the generous manner in which,... | |
 | George Ticknor - 1864 - 504 páginas
...a chill upon my mind, and, no doubt, have laid down the pen at once ; for, as I have already said, it was not that I cared about writing a history, but that I felt an inevitable impulse to write one particular historg. You know how kindly he always spoke of and to me ; and the generous manner in which,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1878 - 304 páginas
...a chill upon my mind, and, no doubt, have laid down the pen at once ; for, as I have already said, it was not that I cared about writing a history, but that I felt an inevitable impulse to write one particular history. " You know how kindly he always spoke of and to me ; and the generous manner in... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1878 - 300 páginas
...mind, and, no doubt, have laid down the pen at once ; for, as I have already said, it was not tha*; I cared about writing a history, but that I felt an inevitable impulse to write one particular history. " You know how kindly he always spoke of and to me ; and the generous manner in... | |
 | 1880 - 1170 páginas
...miud, and, no doubt, have laid down the pen nt once ; for it was uot Hint I cared about writing ¡i history, but that I felt an inevitable impulse to...had the idea of writing a " History of the French Hevolution" in his head for years, and if lie could have found time for the requisite investigations... | |
 | Peter Anton - 1880 - 268 páginas
...a chill upon my mind, and, no doubt, have laid down the pen at once ; for, as I have already said, it was not that I cared about writing a history, but that I felt an inevitable impulse to write one particular history. And although it seems easy enough for a man of world-wide reputation thus to extend... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1886 - 568 páginas
...destined to fall dead from the press, and I had no inclination or interest to write any other. ... It was not that I cared about writing a history, but that I felt an inevitable impulse to write one particular history'' * This, clearly, was a noble beginning, and nobly was it followed. Motley's theme... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1886 - 426 páginas
...with a chill upon my mind, and no doubt have laid down the pen at once ; for, as I have already said, it was not that I cared about writing a history, but that I felt an inevitable impulse to write one particular history." And as the top and crown of literary magnanimity it must be recorded that Prcscott's... | |
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... well if I should select some other topic, or had he only sprinkled me with the cold water of conventional and commonplace encouragement, — I should have gone from him with a chill upon my mind, and, no doubt, have laid down the pen at once ; for,... 
