 | William Hayley - 1803 - 348 sider
...fuccefies or difappointments. Had I employed my time as wifely as you, in a fituation rery fimilar to yours,. I had never been a poet perhaps, but I...time have acquired a character of more importance in fociety ; and a fituation in which my friends would have been better pleafed to fee me. But three years... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 490 sider
...successes or disappointments. Had I employed my time as wisely as you, in a situation very similar to yours, I had never been a poet perhaps, but I might...more importance in society; and a situation in which njy friends would have been better pleased to see me. But three years mis-spent in an attorney's office,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1809 - 486 sider
...successes or disappointments. Had I employed my. time as wisely as you, in a situation very similar to yours, I had never been a poet perhaps, but I might...in which my friends would have been better pleased lo see me. But three years mjs-spent in an attorney's office, were almost of course followed by several... | |
 | John Struthers - 1822 - 276 sider
...to Mr. Rose, who held a respectable place in the administration of the govern. ment of the country,) I had never been a poet perhaps, but I might by this time have acquired a character of far greater importance in society, and a situation in which my friends would have been better pleased... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 sider
...way, had gained for him, says, " Had I employed my time as wisely as you, in a situation very similar to yours, I had never been a poet, perhaps, but I...friends would have been better pleased to see me." This was prudent counsel to give to Mr Rose ; but it is false reasoning, and unfounded in fact. Who... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 sider
...or disappointments. Had I employed my time as wisely as you, in a situation very similar to yoTirs, I had never been a poet perhaps, but I might by this time have acquired a character of more importance.in society; and a situation in which my friends would have 1x«n better pleased to see me.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 726 sider
...successes or disappointments. Had I employed my time as wisely as you, in a situation very similar to yours, I had never been -a poet perhaps, but I...friends would have been better pleased to see me. But throe years mis-speut in an attorney's office were almost of course followed by several more equally... | |
 | 1836 - 558 sider
...had chosen to apply his mind to ; but, as he ingenuously confesses in a letter to his friend Rose, ' three years mis-spent in an attorney's office were,...followed by several more equally mis-spent in the Tem1 ple ; and the consequence has been, as the Italian epitaph says, ' " Sto qui:" (here I am !) The... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1837 - 594 sider
...years in an attorney's office and at the Temple, he says : " Had I employed my time as wisely as you, I had never been a poet perhaps, but I might by this...friends would have been better pleased to see me. The only use I can make of myself now, at least the best, is to serve in terrorem to others, that they... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1843 - 358 sider
...Had I employed my time as \\ isely as you, in a situation very similar to yours, 1 had never been 3 poet perhaps, but I might by this time have acquired a character of more im]iortance in society ; and a situation in which my friends would have been better pleased to see... | |
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... or four first years in which we are our own masters, make it. Then it is that we may be said to shape our own destiny, and to treasure up for ourselves a series of future successes or disappointments. Had I employed my time as wisely as you, in a... 
