| Anna Seward - 1810 - 410 páginas
...go to the tune of dear Honora. — When an impertinent consciousness whispers in my ear, that I am not of the right stuff for a merchant, I draw my Honora's...appears oppressive. The poetic task you set me is a sad method — my head and heart are too full of other matters to be engrossed by a draggle-tailed... | |
| Winthrop Sargent - 1861 - 506 páginas
...calculations go to the tune of dear Honora. When an impertinent consciousness whispers in my ear, that I am not of the right stuff for a merchant, I draw my Honora's...oppressive. The poetic task you set me is in a sad method : my head and heart are too full of other matters to be engrossed by a draggle-tail'd wench... | |
| Winthrop Sargent - 1871 - 508 páginas
...to stick to the desk. " When an impertinent consciousness," he says, " whispers in my ear, that I am not of the right stuff for a merchant, I draw my Honora's...my industry, that no toil appears oppressive." The reader may compare with some interest this confession with the sentiments, uttered at the same period,... | |
| 1881 - 544 páginas
...consciousness whispers in my car that I am not of the right stuff for a merchant, I draw my llonora's picture from my bosom and the sight of that dear talisman...inspirits my industry that no toil appears oppressive." treated the subject have conveyed the idea that it was despair at Honora's marriage that caused Andr6... | |
| Benson John Lossing - 1886 - 218 páginas
...to acquire an inclination for it. ... When an impertinent consciousness whispers in my ear that I am not of the right stuff for a merchant, I draw my Honora's...dear talisman so inspirits my industry that no toil seems oppressive." This correspondence was kept up several months, but Andre's suit did not prosper.... | |
| Benson John Lossing - 1886 - 200 páginas
...consciousness whispers in my ear that I am not of the right stuff for a merchant, I draw my Honora "s picture from my bosom, and the sight of that dear talisman so inspirits my industry that no toil seems oppressive." This correspondence was kept up several months, but Andr6's suit did not prosper.... | |
| Winthrop Sargent - 1902 - 632 páginas
...to stick to the desk. "When an impertinent consciousness," he says, "whispers in my ear, that I am not of the right stuff for a merchant, I draw my Honora's...from my bosom, and the sight of that dear talisman so inspires my industry, that no toil appears oppressive." The reader may compare with some interest this... | |
| Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.) - 1904 - 312 páginas
...calculations go to the tune of dear Honora. When an impertinent consciousness whispers in my ear, that I am not of the right stuff for a merchant, I draw my Honora's...Inspirits my industry, that no toil appears oppressive." Not to dwell upon this phase of his career it is enough to recall that the fair Honora either rejected... | |
| Edward Verrall Lucas - 1907 - 440 páginas
...go to the tune of dear Honora. — When an impertinent consciousness whispers in my ear, that I am not of the right stuff for a merchant, I draw my Honora's...appears oppressive. " The poetic task you set me is a sad method — my head and heart are too full of other matters to be engrossed by a draggle-tailed... | |
| Mary Caroline Crawford - 1912 - 540 páginas
...calculations go to the tune of dear Honora. When an impertinent consciousness whispers in my ear that I am not of the right stuff for a merchant I draw my Honora's...inspirits my industry that no toil appears oppressive." It was this same picture of Honora, painted by himself, and preserved in a locket, that Andre saved... | |
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