...me. Thus let my life slide silently away, With sleep all night, and quiet all the day. XI. OF MYSELF. IT is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of...own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him. There is no danger from me of offending him in...

...are apt to disparage the writings of thenrivals ; ' It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself; it grates his own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him.' COWLEY. A person may detract from the skill of...

...am going on with my gwn •li it:; but as the incomparable' Mr. ' Cowley observes most -ingeniowsly, it is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of it grates Iiis own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any thing...

...conversation.—Khensfone. ccccv. " It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself," says Cowley: "it grates his own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him." Let the tenour of his discourse be what it will...

...conversation.— -Shenstone. ccccv. " It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself," says Cowley: "it grates his own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him." Let the tenour of his discourse be what it will...

...Speaking of One's Self. — " It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself," says Cowley: "it grates his own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him." Let the tenour of his discourse b« what it will...

...the better order of his admirers. " It is a hard and nice subject," says Cowley, " for a man to speak of himself; it grates his own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any praise from him." Cowley, however, was himself an egotist, and ventured to...

...the better order of his admirers. " It is a hard and nice subject," says Cowley, " for a man to speak of himself ; it grates his own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any praise from him." Cowley, however, was himself an egotist, and ventured to...

...Speaking of One's Self .—" It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself," says Cowley : " it grates his own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him." Let the tenour of his discourse be what it will...

...these essays, the author's craving for peace and retirement is a frequently recurring theme. Of Myself. It is a har anything of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear anything of praise from him. There is no danger...