 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1887 - 730 pages
...up a literary correspondence with me. This improved me in composition. I had met witU a collection of letters by the wits of Queen Anne's reign, and I pored over them most devoutly. 1 kept copies of any of my own letters that pleased me, and a comparison between them... | |
 | Charles Rogers - 1891 - 412 pages
...up a literary correspondence with me. This improved me in composition. I had met with a collection of letters by the wits of Queen Anne's reign, and I pored over them most devoutly. I kept copies of any of my own letters that pleased me ; and a comparison between them... | |
 | James Craig Higgins - Poets, Scottish - 1893 - 252 pages
...up a literary correspondence with me. This improved me in composition. I had met with a collection of letters by the wits of Queen Anne's reign, and I pored over them most devoutly. I kept copies of any of my own letters that pleased me ; and a comparison between them... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - Poets, Scottish - 1896 - 710 pages
...up a literary correspondence with me. This improved me in composition. I had met with a collection of letters by the wits of Queen Anne's reign, and I pored over them most devoutly. I kept copies of any of my own letters that pleased me, and a comparison between them... | |
 | Sir William Alexander Craigie - 1896 - 244 pages
...early begun — immediately after his return from Kirkoswald. "I had met," he says, "with a collection of letters by the wits of Queen Anne's reign, and I pored over them most devoutly. I kept copies of any of my own letters that pleased me, and a comparison between them... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - Poets, Scottish - 1896 - 710 pages
...up a literary correspondence with me. This improved me in composition. I had met with a collection of letters by the wits of Queen Anne's reign, and I pored over them most devoutly. I kept copies of any of my own letters that pleased me, and a comparison between them... | |
 | John Alexander Joyce - Poets, Scottish - 1910 - 156 pages
...up a literary correspondence with me. This improved me in composition. I had met with a collection of letters by the wits of Queen Anne's reign, and I pored over them most devoutly ; I kept copies of any of my own letters that pleased me; and a comparison between them... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - Hymns - 1910 - 706 pages
...up a literary correspondence with me. This improved me in composition. I had met with a collection of letters by the wits of Queen Anne's reign, and I pored over them most devoutly. I kept copies of any of my own letters that pleased me, and a comparison between them... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke - Authorship - 1911 - 444 pages
...up a literary correspondence with me. This improved me in composition. I had met with a collection of letters by the wits of Queen Anne's reign, and I pored over them most devoutly. I kept copies of any of my own letters that pleased me, and a comparison between them... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English literature - 1912 - 788 pages
...up a literary correspondence with me. This improved me in composition. I had met with a collection of letters by the wits of Queen Anne's reign, and I pored over them most devoutly. I kept copies of any of my own letters that pleased me, and a comparison between them... | |
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I engaged several of my school-fellows to keep up a literary correspondence with me. This improved me in composition. I had met with a collection of letters by the wits of Queen Anne's reign, and I pored over them most devoutly. I kept copies of any of... 
