 | Leslie Stephen - Great Britain - 1897 - 446 pages
...society. He insisted upon people praying with him, and I'd as lief pray withKitSinart as with anyoneelse. Another charge was that he did not love clean linen ; and I have no passion for it.' The impulse which had produced the ' Song to David ' remained with Smart to the end, but the inspiration... | |
 | Christopher Smart - 1898 - 62 pages
...to society. He insisted on people praying with him ; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as anyone else. Another charge was, that he did not love clean linen; and I have no passion for it." " Smart's was an unhappy life," remarks Southey ("Specimens of the Later English Poets"): "imprudent,... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1899 - 440 pages
...society. He insisted on people praying with him; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as with anyone else. Another charge was that he did not love clean linen ; and I have no passion for it." While in Bedlam, Smart wrote his famous Song to David, published in 1763. Worn out with drunkenness... | |
 | Johnson Club (London, England) - 1899 - 350 pages
...DRESS Facing page 117 The dress may be genuine but the head clearly belongs to a different original. " He did not love clean linen and I have no passion for it." TEA Facing page 133 This caricature was engraved by Rowlandson after a design by Samuel Collings. "... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 638 pages
...exercise as he used to have, for he digs in the garden. Indeed, before his confinement, he used for exercise to walk to the alehouse ; but he was carried...love clean linen ; and I have no passion for it." " Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labour ; but even supposing knowledge to be easily... | |
 | Thomas Bird Mosher - Literature - 1900 - 496 pages
...noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as anyone else. Another charge was, that he did not love clean linen ; and I have no passion for it." " Smart's was an unhappy hit','' remarks Southey ("Specimens of the Later English Poets"): "imprudent,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1902 - 864 pages
...falling upon his knees and saying his prayers in the street, or in any other unusual place ; and I 'd ndeed, John, I can willingly part with you ; then...I have no more to do but die, I have been in case During his confinement, it is said, writing materials were denied him, and Smart used to inscribe his... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1902 - 860 pages
...falling upon his knees and saying his prayers in the street, or in any other unusual place ; and I 'd Who shames a scribbler? Break one cobweb through,...the slight, self-pleasing thread anew : Destroy his During his confinement, it is said, writing materials were denied him, and Smart used to inscribe his... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1902 - 336 pages
...noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him ; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as with any one else. Another charge was that he did not love clean linen; and I have no passion for it." Devices of various kinds have been adopted by the ambitious to get into print; but Smart's method is... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - London (England) - 1902 - 500 pages
...noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him, and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as with any one else. Another charge was that he did not love clean linen, and I have no passion for it." Poor Smart, whose distresses continued to the last, died within the rules of the Queen's Bench Prison... | |
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I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any one else. Another charge was, that he did not love clean linen ; and I have no passion for it. 
