 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 pages
...; but, generally speaking, he is mistaken in his account, and reckons short in the expence he first intended. He alters his mind as the work proceeds,...he began. So has it happened to me ; I have built a house, where I intended but a lodge ; yet with better success than a certain nobleman, who, beginning... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 658 pages
...but, generally fpeaking, he is miilaken in his account, and reckons fliort in the expence he firft intended: he alters his mind as the work proceeds,...when he began. So has it happened to me: I have built ahoufe, where I intended but a lodge: yetwitli better fuccefs than a certain nobleman, who beginning... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 458 pages
...; but, generally speaking, he is mistaken in his account, and reckons short of the expence he first intended : he alters his mind as the work proceeds,...he began. So has it happened to me : I have built a house, where I intended but a lodge : yet with better success than a certain nobleman, who, beginning... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 500 pages
...beforehand; but, generally speaking, he is mistaken in his account, and reckons short in the expence he first intended. He alters his mind as the work proceeds,...he began. So has it happened to me ; I have built a house, where I intended but a lodge; yet with better success than a certain nobleman, who, beginning... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 506 pages
...beforehand; but, generally speaking, he is mistaken in his account, and reckons short in the expence he first intended. He alters his mind as the work proceeds,...he began. So has it happened to me ; I have built a house, where I intended but a lodge; yet with better success than a certain nobleman, who, beginning... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 664 pages
...but, generally speaking, he is mistaken in his account, and reckons short in. the expense he first intended : he alters his mind as the work proceeds,...he began. So has it happened to me : I have built » bouse, where I ¡«tended 'but a lodge ; yet with better success than a certain nobleman, who, beginning... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 612 pages
...beforehand; but, generally speaking, he is mistaken in his account, and reckons short in the expense he first intended : he alters his mind as the work proceeds,...not thought when he began. So has it happened to me : 1 have built A house, where 1 iatended but a lodge ; yet with better success than a certain nobleman,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 620 pages
...he first intended : he alters his mind as the work proceeds, and will hare this or that conTfT.-cnre more, of which he had not thought when he began. So has it happened to me : I hare built i house, where I intended but a lodge ; yet with better success than a certain nobleman,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 620 pages
...; but, generally speaking, he is mistaken in his account, and reckons short in the expense he first intended : he alters his mind as the work proceeds, and will have this or that conrenience more, of which he had not thought when he began. So has it happened to me : I have built... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 664 pages
...but, generally speaking, he is mistaken in his account, and reckons short in. the expense he first intended : he alters his mind as the work proceeds, and will have this or that conrenience more, of which he had not thought when he beg^n. So has it happened to me: 1 have built... | |
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Tis with a poet as with a man who designs to build, and is very exact, as he supposes, in casting up the cost beforehand ; but, generally speaking, he is mistaken in his account, and reckons short... 
