 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1875 - 400 pages
...is doubtful, the mode and place of his education are unknown, the events of his life are variously related, and all that can be told with certainty is that he was poor." The present edition of the Poetical Works of Poe is the first complete one that has ever been made. It... | |
 | James Mason - Biography - 1875 - 674 pages
...his language. The mode and place of his education are unknown ; the events of his life are variously related; and all that can be told with certainty is, that he was poor.' No composition abounds so much as Hudibras in strokes of just and inimitable wit ; yet there are many... | |
 | William Clark Russell - Authors, English - 1876 - 538 pages
...his language. The mode and place of his education are unknown ; the events of his life are variously related ; and all that can be told with certainty is that he was ^voL—Johnson's " Lijc of Butler." Jeremy Taylor. 1613-1667. A spirit. . .burning with Christian love... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1877 - 610 pages
...; the mode and place of his education are unknown ; the events of his life are variously narrated, and all that can be told with certainty is that he was poor." In this he resembled Burns, as well as in some other traits of his character and genius. Like him,... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - London (England) - 1878 - 528 pages
...his language. The mode and place of his education are unknown ; the events of his life are variously related ; and all that can be told with certainty is, that he was poor." — Dr. Johnson. Amongst the grave-stones in the miserable churchyard is that of James Worsdale, the... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - London (England) - 1878 - 528 pages
...his language. The mode and place of his education are unknown ; the events of his life are variously related ; and all that can be told with certainty is, that he was poor." — Dr. Johnson. Amongst the grave-stones in the miserable churchyard is that of James Worsdale, the... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1881 - 270 pages
...his language. The mode and place of his education are unknown ; the events of his life are variously related ; and all that can be told with certainty is that he was poor.' Confining ourselves as far as possible, for the purposes of this edition, to what is known, as distinguished... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1881 - 276 pages
...his language. The mode and place of his education are unknown ; the events of his life are variously related ; and all that can be told with certainty is that he was poor.' Confining ourselves as far as possible, for the purposes of this edition, to what is known, as distinguished... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 488 pages
...his language. The mode and place of his education are unknown ; the events of his life are variously related: and all that can be told with certainty is,...that he was poor. The poem of " Hudibras " is one of those compositions of which a nation may j ustly boast ; as the images which it exhibits are domestic,... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - Fantasy literature, American - 1889 - 360 pages
...of whom it may well be said in the words of Dr. Johnson, that the events of his life are variously related, and all that can be told with certainty is, that he was poor." In turning to the tales, not much need be added. Those that follow are the best written by Poe, and... | |
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In this mist of obscurity passed the life of Butler, a man whose name can only perish with his language. The mode and place of his education are unknown ; the events of his life are variously related ; and all that can be told with certainty is, that... 
