 I leaped headlong into the sea, and thereby have become better acquainted with the soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and took tea and comfortable advice. I was never afraid of...  The Quarterly Review - Página 334editado por - 1888Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1849 - 606 páginas
...have become better acquainted with the soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had strayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and...advice. I was never afraid of failure, for I would rather fail than not be among the greatest." " I have copied my fourth book of Endymion, and shall... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1848 - 794 páginas
...headlong into the sea, and thereby have become better acquainted with the soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green...would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.' — Ib. p. 214. Soon after, the death of his youngest brother, of the same complaint that ere long... | |
 | Richard Monckton Milnes (1st baron Houghton.) - 1848 - 328 páginas
...headlong into the sea, and thereby have become better acquainted with the soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green...would sooner fail than not be among the greatest. But I am nigh getting into a rant; so, with remembrances to Taylor and Woodhouse, &c., I am, Your's... | |
 | John Keats - 1848 - 414 páginas
...headlong into the sea, and thereby have become better acquainted with the soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green...would sooner fail than not be among the greatest. But I am nigh getting into a rant ; so, with remembrances to Taylor and Woodhouse, &c.. I am, Yours... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1848 - 570 páginas
...thereby have become better acquainted with the soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if 1 had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly...would sooner fail than not be among the greatest." — pp. 214, 215, vol. i. Still, there is sufficient trace, even in the boldest of his letters, of... | |
 | 1848 - 578 páginas
...headlong into the sea, and thereby have become better acquainted with the soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green...silly pipe, and took tea and comfortable advice." So again in one of his easy confidential letters to his brother George — in which it is his custom... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 1848 - 574 páginas
...headlong into the sea, and thereby have become better acquainted with the sounding», the quicksands and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and taken tea and comfortable advice. 1 was never afraid of failure, for I would rather fail than not be... | |
 | 1849 - 636 páginas
...have become better acquainted with the soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had strayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and...advice. I was never afraid of failure, for I would rather fail than• not be among the greatest." " I have copied my fourth book of Endymion, and shall... | |
 | 1849 - 588 páginas
...have become better acquainted with the soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had strayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and...advice. I was never afraid of failure, for I would rather fail than not be among the greatest." " I have copied my fourth book of Endymion, and shall... | |
 | 1849 - 290 páginas
...the sea, and thereby have beeome better aequainted with tho soundings, the quieksands and the roeks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and taken tea and eomfortable adviee. I was never afraid of failure, for I would rather fail than not be... | |
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