 Well, after tea, I go to poetry, and correct and re-write and copy till I am tired, and then turn to anything else till supper ; and this is my life, — which, if it be not a very merry one, is yet as happy as heart could wish.  The Quarterly Review - Page 2171851Full view - About this book
 | North American review - 1851 - 568 pages
...rest himself, so does the brain, if it be the part most worked, require its repose. Well, after tea I go to poetry, and correct, and re-write, and copy till I am tired, and then turn to any thing else till supper; and this is my life — which, if it be not a very merry one, is yet as... | |
 | Fashion - 1850 - 464 pages
...be the part most worked, require its repose. Well, after tea, I go to poetry, and correct and revise and copy till I am tired, and then turn to anything...be not a very merry one, is yet as happy as heart would wish. At least I should think so if I had not once been happier, and I do think so except when... | |
 | American periodicals - 1874 - 898 pages
...and rest himself, so does the brain, if it be the part most worked, require its repose. After tea I go to poetry, and correct, and re-write and copy till...very merry one, is yet as happy as heart could wish." I take these sentences from his letters at thirty and forty, but they may stand for a description of... | |
 | American literature - 1850 - 604 pages
...rest himself, so does the brain, if it be the part most worked, require its repose. Well, after tea, I go to poetry and correct and re-write and copy till...very merry one, is yet as happy as heart could wish. . . . When I cease to be cheerful it is only to become contemplative — to feel at times a wish that... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1850 - 794 pages
...rest himself, so does the brain, if it be the part most worked, require its repose. Well, after tea, I go to poetry, and correct and re-write and copy till...very merry one, is yet as happy as heart could wish. At least I should think so if I had not once been happier ; and I do think so, except when that recollection... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1850 - 406 pages
...himself, so does the brain, if it be the part most worked, require its repose. TYell, after tea, I go to poetry, and correct and re-write and copy till...very merry one, is yet as happy as heart could wish. At least I should think so if I htd not once been happier ; and I do think so, except when that recollection... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 608 pages
...rest himself, so docs the brain, if it be the part most worked, require its repose. Well, after tea, I go to poetry and correct and re-write and copy till...very merry one, is yet as happy as heart could wish. . . . When I cease to be cheerful it is only to become contemplative — to feel at (¡mesa wish that... | |
 | English literature - 1850 - 662 pages
...after tea, I go to poetry and correct and rewrite and copy till I am tired, and then turn to any thing else till supper, and this is my life — which if...very merry one, is yet as happy as heart could wish. * * * When I cease to be cheerful it is only to become contemplative — to feel at times a wish that... | |
 | 1850 - 654 pages
...rest himself, so does the brain, if it be the part most worked, require its repose. Well, after tea, I go to poetry and correct and rewrite and copy till I am tired, and then turn to any thing else till supper, and this is my life—which if it be not a very merry one, is yet as happy... | |
 | 1851 - 354 pages
...till tea I read, write letters, see the newspaper, and very often indulge in a siesta. After tea I go to poetry, and correct and re-write and copy till...very merry one, is yet as happy as heart could wish. •1851. Life and Letters of Soulhey. Of nearly the same date is this remarkable passage. We have seen... | |
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