 of a giant spending his strength in cracking nuts. I would rather go to render up my account at the last day, carrying with me ' The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain,' than bearing the load of all those volumes, full as they are of genius.  Home Sketches and Foreign Recollections - Side 272av Lady Georgiana Chatterton - 1841Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Robert Isaac Wilberforce, Samuel Wilberforce - 1839 - 554 sider
...repeating his complaint " that they should have so little moral or religious object. They remind me of a giant spending his strength in cracking nuts. I would rather go to render up my account 1825. HOUSE OF COMMONS RECOLLECTIONS. 491 at the last day, carrying up with me ' The Shepherd of Salisbury... | |
 | 1841 - 658 sider
...original state." Her Ladyship cherishes a tolerant, yet a sweetly religious spirit. She remarks : — " In the ' Life of Wilberforce,' it is said of Scott's...in cracking nuts. I would rather go to render up my accounts at the last day carrying with me ' The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain,' than bearing the load... | |
 | 1843 - 1056 sider
...so little moral and religious object. "They remind me," said he, " of a giant spending his strength cracking nuts. ' I would rather go to render up my...of Salisbury Plain,' than bearing the load of all these volumes, full as they are of genius." It was impossible that an author whose chief object was... | |
 | 1843 - 520 sider
...so little moral and religious object. "They remind me," said he, " of a giant spending his strength cracking nuts. I would rather go to render up my account,...of Salisbury Plain,' than bearing the load of all these volumes, full as they are of genius." It was impossible that an author whose chief object was... | |
 | 1843 - 1026 sider
...moral and religious object. "They remind me," said he, " of a giant spending his strength crarking nuts. I would rather go to render up my account, at...of Salisbury Plain,' than bearing the load of all these volumes, full as they aie of genius." It was impossible that an author whose chief object was... | |
 | 1844 - 406 sider
...sorry," said Wilberforce, "that they should have so little moral and religious object. They remind me of a giant, spending his strength in cracking nuts....to render up my account at the last day, carrying up with me ' The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain,' than bearing the load of all these volumes, full as... | |
 | 626 sider
...: — " I am always sorry that they should have so little moral or religious object. They remind me of a giant spending his strength in cracking nuts....to render up my account at the last day, carrying up with me "The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain," than bearing the load of all those volumes, full as they... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1846 - 740 sider
...the words of Scott were these words of Wilberforce, in relation to that great man and his writings, "I would rather go to render up my account at the last day, carrying up with me ' The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain, than bearing the load of all those volâmes, fall as... | |
 | 1847 - 648 sider
...little moral or religious object. They remind me of a giant spending his strength in cracking Data. I would rather go to render up my account at the last day, carrying up with me ' The Shepherd o; Salisbury Plain,' than bearing the load of all these volumes, full as... | |
 | John Todd - 1853 - 302 sider
...Diary : "I am always sorry that they should have so little moral or religious object. They remind me of a giant spending his strength in cracking nuts....to render up my account at the last day, carrying up with me The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain, than bearing the load of all these volumes, full as they... | |
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