 | Horace Walpole - 1806 - 454 sider
...of critical delicacy I have been wishful to perform, with a view to the reader's profit as well as the writer's fame; not unaware that it may prove a...guest But will find something wanting or ill drest." As lord Orford's Appendix to the posthumous edition of his Noble Authors, could not be transferred... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1806 - 428 sider
...delicacy I have been wishful to perform, with a view to the readers profit as well as the writer s fame; not unaware that it may prove a thankless toil...guest But will find something wanting or ill drest." As lord Orford's Appendix to the posthumous edition of his Noble Authors, could not be transferred... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1806 - 476 sider
...delicacy I liave been wishful to perform, with a view to the reader's profit as well as the writer s fame ; not unaware that it may prove a thankless toil...invites His judges than his friends ; and not a guest Bui will find something wanting or ill drest." As lord Orford's Appendix to the posthumous edition... | |
 | 734 sider
...a multitude of palates ; ! — ' since he who write* Or makes a feast, more certainly invites Ijis judges than his friends ; and not a guest But will find something, wanting, or ill drc- : .' " AS Lord Orford's appendix to the posthumous edition of his Noble Authors, could not be... | |
 | 1829 - 440 sider
...land ; So doth this life exalt and wane, And, alter, and expand. jo R. PRESENT AMERICAN LITERATURE. He who writes Or makes a feast, more certainly invites...and not a guest But will find something wanting or ill-drcsl." WHILE the events of the last fifty years have wrought so great a change in the moral and... | |
 | 1829 - 434 sider
...; So doth this life exalt and wane, And, alter, and expand. • io PRESENT AMERICAN LITERATURE. • He who writes Or makes a feast, more certainly invites...and not a guest But will find something wanting or ill-drest." WHILE the events of the last fifty years have wrought so great a change in the moral and... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1830 - 274 sider
...OTHER MATTERS. BY IGNATIUS LOYOLA ROBERTSON, i .. i .. ir A RESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. -" He that writes, Or makes a feast, more certainly invites His judges than his friends ; there's not a guest, But will find something wanting or ill drest." "But here, where Freedom's equal... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1830 - 278 sider
...notices of other matters, by Ignatius Loyola Robinson, LL D; a resident of the United States. " He that writes, ( Or makes a feast, more certainly invites ' His judges than his friends ; there is not a guest, 1 Cut will find something wanting, or ill dresu" 1 But here, where freedom's... | |
 | Edmund Flagg - 1838 - 280 sider
...THEY HATE BEEN COMPLETED TO MY SISTER LUCY ABE THEY AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED. TO THE READER. " He that •writes Or makes a feast, more certainly invites His judges than his friends ; there's not a guest But will find something wanting or ill dress'd." IN laying before the majesty... | |
 | Edmund Flagg - 1838 - 280 sider
...BEEN COMPLETED TO MY SISTER LUCY ARE THEY AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED. TO THE READER. " He thatwrites Or makes a feast, more certainly invites His judges than his friends ; there's not a guest But will find something wanting or ill dress'd." IN laying before the majesty... | |
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... he who writes Or makes a feast, more certainly invites His judges than his friends; and not a guest But will find something wanting or ill drest. 
