 | England - 1882 - 870 pages
...condescend to correct it. " When once it is written, it remains in that state ; it being, as you \ery well know, with the utmost difficulty that I can be brought to alter one syllable, which, I think, is partly owing to the above practice." So the Shepherd's works, with their... | |
 | James Hogg - 1821 - 436 pages
...ever I put pen to paper, and then I write it down as fast as the A, B, C. When once it is written, it remains in that state ; it being, as you very well...utmost difficulty that I can be brought to alter one syllable, which I think is partly owing to the above practice. It is a fact, that, by a long acquaintance... | |
 | 1821 - 970 pages
...down as fast as the A, B, C. VVhen one* it is written, it.remains in that state; it being, as you yery well know, with the utmost difficulty that I can be brought to alter one syllable; which, 1 think, is partly owing to the above practice." [p. xix.] A number of other pieces... | |
 | William Bengo' Collyer - 1822 - 502 pages
...ever I put pen to paper, and then I write it down as fast as the A, B, C. When once it is written, it remains in that state ; it being, as you very well...utmost difficulty that I can be brought to alter one syllable; which, I think, is partly owing to the above practice." [p. xix.] A number of other pieces... | |
 | Biography - 1823 - 870 pages
...remains in that state; it heing, as yon very well know, with the ntmost difficnlty that I can he bronght to alter one line, which I think is partly owing to the above practice." Hogg continned to amnse himself with poetry for some years, bnt it was not till 1801 that he ventnred... | |
 | Biography - 1825 - 348 pages
...write it down as fast as the A, 15, C. When once it is written, it remains in that state ; it heing, as you very well know, with the utmost difficulty that I can he brought to alter one line, which I think is partly owing to the above practice." Hogg continued... | |
 | Francis Lieber - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1831 - 620 pages
...my mind, ere I put pen to paper, when I write it down as fast aa the AB C. When once it is written, it remains in that state, it being, as you very well...which, I think, is partly owing to the above practice." Hogg continued to amuse himself with jwetry for some years ; but it was not till J801 that he ventured... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1831 - 618 pages
...my mind, ere I put pen to paper, when I write it down as fast as the AB С. When once it is written, it remains in that state, it being, as you very well...which, I think, is partly owing to the above practice." Hogg continued to amuse himself with poetry for some years ; but it was not till 1801 that ho ventured... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1831 - 628 pages
...my mind, ere I put pen to paper, when I write it down as fast as the AB C. When once it is written, it remains in that state, it being, as you very well...which, I think, is partly owing to the above practice." Hogg continued to amuse himself with poetry for some years ; but it was not till 1801 that he ventured... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1831 - 620 pages
...и I, ere I put pen to paper, when I write it down as fast as the A Ii C. When once it is written, it remains in that state, it being, as you very well know, with the utmost difficulty that I can I» brought to alter one line, which, I think, is piirtly owing to the ul>ove practice." Hogg continued... | |
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My manner of composing poetry is very different, and, I believe, much more singular. Let the piece be of what length it will, I compose and correct it wholly in my mind, or on a slate, ere ever I put pen to paper; and then I write it down as fast as the... 
