 | Literature - 1859 - 868 pages
...would be hard for me to do, and, when done, might not be very interesting for others to read. Nothing makes such dreary and monotonous reading as the old hackneyed roll-call, chronologically arrayed, of inevitable facts in a man's life. One is so certain of the man's having been born, and... | |
 | 1855 - 616 pages
...fallen humanity. BIOGRAPHY. MEMOIR OF JOSEPH CRAIG, OF APPLEBY. DE QUINCEY has well said, that " nothing makes such dreary and monotonous reading as the old...inevitable facts in a man's life. One is so certain of the man having been born, and also of his having died, that it is dismal to he under the necessity of reading... | |
 | David Thomas - 1868 - 404 pages
...characteristically opened his autobiographic sketches in their original form, with the avowal that nothing makes such dreary and monotonous reading as the old hackneyed roll-call, chronologically arrayed, cf inevitable facts in a man's life. " One is so certain of the man's having been born, and... | |
 | Francis Jacox - Bible - 1870 - 550 pages
...characteristically opened his autobiographic sketches in their original form, with the avowal that nothing makes such dreary and monotonous reading as the old...and also of his having died, that it is dismal to be under the necessity of reading it." The man—a man—any man—every man. It is the common lot.... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1870 - 432 pages
...characteristically opened his autobiographic sketches in their original form, with the avowal that nothing makes such dreary and monotonous reading as the old...and also of his having died, that it is dismal to be under the necessity of reading it." The man—a man—any man—every man. It is the common lot.... | |
 | H. A. Page - 1877 - 386 pages
...would be hard for me to do, and, when done, might not be very interesting for others to read. Nothing makes such dreary and monotonous reading as the old hackneyed roll-call, chronologically arrayed, of inevitable facts in a man's life. One is so certain of the man's having been born, and... | |
 | Alexander Hay Japp - 1877 - 380 pages
...would be hard for me to do, and, when done, might not be very interesting for others to read. Nothing makes such dreary and monotonous reading as the old hackneyed roll-call, chronologically arrayed, of inevitable facts in a man's life. One is so certain of the man's having been born, and... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1890 - 374 pages
...Nothing makes such dreary and monotonous reading as the old hackneyed roll-call, chronologically arrayed, of inevitable facts in a man's life. One is so certain...is dismal to lie under the necessity of reading it. That the man began by being a boy—that he went to school—and . that, by intense application to... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1890 - 376 pages
...would be hard for me to do, and when done, might not be very interesting for others to read. Nothing makes such dreary and monotonous reading as the old hackneyed roll-call, chronologically arrayed, of inevitable facts in a man's life. One is so certain of the man's having been born, and... | |
 | Walter Swain Hinchman, Francis Barton Gummere - Authors, English - 1908 - 610 pages
...suffered. In spite of De Quincey's remark concerning biography, that "one is so certain of the man's being born, and also of his having died, that it is dismal to be under the necessity of reading it," the dates of his own birth and death are especially full of... | |
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Nothing makes such dreary and monotonous reading as the old hackneyed roll-call, chronologically arrayed, of inevitable facts in a man's life. One is so certain of the man's having been born, and also of his having died, that it is dismal to lie under... 
