 | William Hayley - 1803 - 348 pages
...fuccefies or difappointments. Had I employed my time as wifely as you, in a fituation rery fimilar to yours,. I had never been a poet perhaps, but I...time have acquired a character of more importance in fociety ; and a fituation in which my friends would have been better pleafed to fee me. But three years... | |
 | William Hayley - Authors, English - 1803 - 450 pages
...of future successes or disappointments. Had I employed my time as wisely as you, in a situation tion very similar to yours, I had never been a Poet perhaps, but I might by this time have acquired a chara&er of more importance in society ; and a situation in which my friends would have been better... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 490 pages
...treasure up for oui4 ourselves a series of future successes or disappointments. Had I employed my time as wisely as you, in a situation very similar to yours,...more importance in society; and a situation in which njy friends would have been better pleased to see me. But three years mis-spent in an attorney's office,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1809 - 486 pages
...treasure up for ourselves a series of future successes or disappointments. Had I employed my. time as wisely as you, in a situation very similar to yours,...in which my friends would have been better pleased lo see me. But three years mjs-spent in an attorney's office, were almost of course followed by several... | |
 | John Struthers - 1822 - 276 pages
...to Mr. Rose, who held a respectable place in the administration of the govern. ment of the country,) I had never been a poet perhaps, but I might by this time have acquired a character of far greater importance in society, and a situation in which my friends would have been better pleased... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...enthusiastic young admirer, whom his poetry, by the way, had gained for him, says, " Had I employed my time as wisely as you, in a situation very similar to yours,...friends would have been better pleased to see me." This was prudent counsel to give to Mr Rose ; but it is false reasoning, and unfounded in fact. Who... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...or disappointments. Had I employed my time as wisely as you, in a situation very similar to yoTirs, I had never been a poet perhaps, but I might by this time have acquired a character of more importance.in society; and a situation in which my friends would have 1x«n better pleased to see me.... | |
 | William Cowper - Authors, English - 1835 - 726 pages
...to treasure up for ourselves a series of future successes or disappointments. Had I employed my time as wisely as you, in a situation very similar to yours,...friends would have been better pleased to see me. But throe years mis-speut in an attorney's office were almost of course followed by several more equally... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1837 - 594 pages
...years in an attorney's office and at the Temple, he says : " Had I employed my time as wisely as you, I had never been a poet perhaps, but I might by this...friends would have been better pleased to see me. The only use I can make of myself now, at least the best, is to serve in terrorem to others, that they... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1843 - 358 pages
...Had I employed my time as \\ isely as you, in a situation very similar to yours, 1 had never been 3 poet perhaps, but I might by this time have acquired a character of more im]iortance in society ; and a situation in which my friends would have been better pleased to see... | |
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The color of our whole life is generally such as the three or four first years in which we are our own masters, make it. Then it is that we may be said to shape our own destiny, and to treasure up for ourselves a series of future successes or disappointments.... 
