 I had discovered a thing very little known, which is, that in one's whole life one can never have any more than a single mother. You may think this is obvious, and (what you call) a trite observation. You are a green gosling ! I was at the same age (very...  Letters of Thomas Gray: Two Volumes in One - Page 128by Thomas Gray - 1820 - 244 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...than a single mother. You may think this is obvious, and (what you call) a trite observation. You are a green gosling! I was at the same age (very near)...and every day I live it sinks deeper into my heart f. Many a * This letter was written some years before, and would have been inserted after Letter L1II.... | |
 | George Hardinge - Elegiac poetry, English - 1807 - 56 pages
...MORE " THAN A SINGLE MOTHER — you may think " it obvious, and (what you call) a trite observa" tion. I was at the same age '(very near) " as wise as you,...discovered this " (with full evidence and conviction) till it was " too late. " It is 'thirteen years ago, AND SEEMS BUT " AS YESTERDAY ; AND EVERY DAY I... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 320 pages
...than a single mother. Yon may think this is obvious, and (what yon call) a trite observation. You are a green gosling! I was at the same age (very near)...sinks deeper into my heart*. Many a corollary could I draw from this axiom for your use (not for my own), but I will leave yon the merit of doing it for... | |
 | Frank Elizabeth - 1814 - 400 pages
...than a single mother. You may think this is obvious; and, what you call, a trite observation. You are a green gosling! I was, at the same age, very near as wise as you; and yet I never discovered this truth, (with full evidence and conviction I mean,) till it was too late. It is thirteen years ago,... | |
 | Elizabeth Frank - English language - 1814 - 400 pages
...than a single mother. You may think this is obvious; and, what you call, a trite observation. You are a green gosling ! I was. at the same age, very near as wise as you ; and yet 1 never discovered this truth, Cwith full evidence and conviction I mean,) till it was too late. It... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 618 pages
...than a single mother. You may think this is obvious, and (what you call) a trite observation. You are a green gosling ! I was at the same age (very near)...sinks deeper into my heart*. Many a corollary could I draw from this axiom for ' your use (not for my own), but I will leave you the merit of doing it for... | |
 | English letters - 1816 - 358 pages
...than a single mother. You may think this is obvious and, what you call, a trite observation. You are a green gosling! I was, at the same age, very near as wise as you ; .and yet I never discovered this truth (with full evidence and conviction I mean,) till it was too late. It is thirteen years ago, and... | |
 | George Hardinge - 1818 - 574 pages
...ANY MORE THAN A SINGLE MOTHER^—you may think it obvious, and (what you call) a trite observation. I was at the same age (very near) as wise as you,...discovered this (with full evidence and conviction) till it was too late. * I am recently told, that Mr. Hayley has printed an extract from this manuscript... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 394 pages
...than a single mother. You may think this is obvious, and (what you call) a trite observation. You are a green gosling ! I was at the same age (very near) as wise as yon, and yet I never discovered this (with full evidenee and conviction I mean) till it was too late.... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - English literature - 1820 - 548 pages
...than a single mother. You may think this is obvious, and (what you call) a trite observation. You are a green gosling ! I was at the same age (very near)...sinks deeper into my heart.* Many a corollary could I draw from this axiom for your use, (not for my own) but I will leave you the merit of doing it for... | |
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