 | Oliver Elton - English literature - 1924 - 482 pages
...for your purpose.' ' Alas, sir, I have heretofore borrowed much help of him, but he is a gentleman of so much reading that the people of our town cannot understand him.' We can se.e how such writing is a form of the author's conversation. He tells of domestic nothings,... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - Authorship - 1926 - 234 pages
...verses." " Alas, sir," said the man, " I have heretofore borrowed help from him, but he is a gentleman of so much reading, that the people of our town cannot understand him." But if Cowper writes well upon anything that happens, he writes best when nothing, absolutely nothing,... | |
 | Jeremy Wormell - Business & Economics - 1999 - 400 pages
...world for your purpose'. ' Alas ! Sir, I have heretofore borrowed help from him, but he is a gentleman of so much reading', that the people of our town cannot...speech, and was almost ready to answer. ' Perhaps, my pood friend, the}' may find me unintelligible, too, for the same reason.' But on asking him if he had... | |
 | 1841 - 520 pages
...world for your purpose.' ' Alas ! sir, I have heretofore borrowed help from him, but he is a gentleman of so much reading, that the people of our town cannot...my good friend, they . may find me unintelligible for the same reason. But, on asking him whether he had walked over to Weston on purpose to implore... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1880 - 548 pages
...verses. ' ' Alas !' replied the clerk, ' I have heretofore borrowed help from him, but he is a gentleman of so much reading that the people of our town cannot understand him.' The compliment was irresistible, and for seven years the author of The Task wrote the mortuary verses... | |
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Alas ! sir, I have heretofore borrowed help from him ; but he is a gentleman of so much reading that the people of our town cannot understand him. 
