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Annual Register of World Events - Page 223
1788
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Annual Register, Volume 19

Edmund Burke - History - 1779 - 750 pages
...faults, I tarn'd his counfel in my thoughts, Which way I ihoujd apply it ; Learning and wit feem'd palt my reach, For who can learn when none will, teach ? And wit — I could not buy it. i t Then come, my friends, and try your ikill, You can inform me if you will, (My books are at a dût...
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The Muse's Mirror: Being a Collection of Poems ...

1783 - 294 pages
...I fhou'd apply it ; Learning and wit feem'd paft my reach, For who can learn when none will teach t And wit — I could not buy it. Then come, my friends, and try your Hull, You can inform me, if you will, (My books are at a diftance) With you I'll live and learn, and...
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The New Foundling Hospital for Wit: Being a Collection of Fugitive ..., Volume 2

John Almon - English literature - 1784 - 422 pages
...faults, I turn'd his Counfel in my thoughts, Which way I mould apply it ; Learning and Wit feem'd paft my reach, For who can learn when none will teach ? And Wit — I cou'd not buy it. Then come, my friends, and try your dill, You can inform me if you will, (My books...
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The Muse's Pocket Companion: A Collection of Poems

English poetry - 1785 - 316 pages
...none will teach ? Encourag'd thus to mend my faults, I turn'd his counfel in my thoughts, And wit—I could not buy it. Then come my friends, and try your...You can inform me if you will, (My books are at a diftauce) With you I'll live and learn, and,then, Inftead of books, I fhall read men, So lend me your...
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The Muse's Pocket Companion. A Collection of Poems: By Lord Carlisle. Lord ...

1785 - 304 pages
...faults, 1 turn'd his counfel in my thoughts, Which way I fhould apply it ; Learning and wit feem'd paft my reach, For who can learn when none will teach ?...could not buy it. Then come my friends, and try your fkill, You can inform me if you will, (My books are at a diftance) With you I'll live and learn, and...
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The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year, Volume 19

Edmund Burke - History - 1788 - 638 pages
...his counfel in my thoughts, Which way I (hould apply it ; Learning and wit feem'd paft my reach, Tor who can learn when none will teach. And wit — I...could not buy it. Then come, my friends, and try your (kill, You can inform me if you will, (My books are at a diftance.) With you I'll live and learn, and...
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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for ...

History - 1788 - 642 pages
...my thoughts, Which way I ihould apply it ; Learning and wit feem'd paft my reach, For who can Jearn when none will teach, And wit — I could not buy it. Then come, my friends, and try your fkill, You can inform me if you will, (My books are at a diftance.) With you I'll live and learn, and...
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The English Parnassus: Being a New Selection of Didactic, Descriptive ...

John Adams - English poetry - 1789 - 376 pages
...I turn'd his counfel in my thoughts, Which way I mould apply it ; ...' Learning and wit feem'd paft my reach ; For who can learn, when none will teach ? And wit, I could not buy if. Then come, my friends, and try your fkilj ; You can improve me, if you will (My books are at a...
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Beauties of literature, selected from various authors by H. Waylett

Beauties - 1791 - 214 pages
...fliould apply it ; Learning and wit feem'd paft my reach, For who can learn when none will teach ?J And wit — I could not buy it. Then come, my friends, and try your fkill, You can inform me if you will, (My books are at a diftancc.) With you I'll live and learn, and...
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Memoirs of Samuel Foote, Esq: With a Collection of His Genuine Bon-mots ...

William Cook - 1805 - 238 pages
...faults, I turn'd his counsel in my thoughts, Which way I should apply it : Learning and witscom'd past my reach, For who can learn when none will teach ?...could not buy it. Then come, my friends, and try your skill : You can inform me, if you will, (My books are at a distance.) With you I'll live and learn,...
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