 With one sole pen I writ this book, Made of a grey goose quill ; A pen it was when it I took, And a pen I leave it still.  The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical ... - Page 261by John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1810Full view - About this book
 | Frederick William N. Bayley - 1833 - 902 pages
...wrote a large folio ruluine with a single pen, aud celebrated the feat with the :ollowiug epigram : " With one sole pen I wrote this book, Made of a grey goose-quill; A pen it was when I it took, A pen 1 leave it still." He must have leant rery lightly... | |
 | Samuel G. Drake - Indians of North America - 1834 - 588 pages
...of bis translations with one pen. upon which he made the following verses : With one sole pen I writ this book, Made of a grey goose quill ; A pen it was, when I it took, And a pea I leave it still. Fuller's Worthies of England. second was about six miles from the first,... | |
 | Samuel Gardner Drake - Indians of North America - 1837 - 642 pages
...of his translations with oue pen, upon which he made the following verses: With one sole pen I writ this book. Made of a grey goose quill ; A pen it was, when I it took, And a pen I leave it still. Fuller*! Worthies of England. ** Douglait, Hist. America, i. 172, note.... | |
 | Samuel G. Drake - Indians of North America - 1837 - 654 pages
...translations with one pen, upon which he made the following verses : With one sole pen I writ Ibis book, Made of a grey goose quill ; A pen it was, when I it took, And a pen I leave it still. Ftiller'i Worthies of England. ** Douglass, Hisl. America, i. 172, note.... | |
 | Miscellaneous extracts - 1839 - 358 pages
...made the following epigram, upon writing a large folio with a single pen: " With one sole pen I writ this book, Made of a grey goose quill ; A pen it was when it I took, And a pen I leave it still." William Alabaster. This Divine, who never rose higher in the... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - England - 1840 - 614 pages
...books he wrote with one pen, whereon he himself thus pleasantly versified : " With one sole pen I writ this book, Made of a grey goose quill ; A pen it was when it I took, And a pen I leave it still.'1 This monumental pen he solemnly kept, and shewed to my reverend... | |
 | 1842 - 488 pages
...History into English with a single pen ; and in the following verse he celebrates his performance : — " With one sole pen I wrote this book, Made of a grey goose-quill ; A pen it was when I it took, A pen I leave it still." Had not others, since his day,... | |
 | William Roberts - Greek letters - 1843 - 734 pages
...of Pliny, performed his work with a single pen, he has handed down the fact in the following verse: With one sole pen I wrote this book, Made of a grey goose-quill ; A pen it was when I it took, A pen I leave it still. Cicero, in a letter to his brother... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 466 pages
...he wrote with one pen, whereon he himself thus pleasantly versified : — " With one sole pen I writ this book, Made of a grey goose quill ; A pen it was when it I took, And a pen I leave it still." This monumental pen he solemnly kept, and showed to my reverend... | |
 | W. Hickling (of Coventry, England.) - Coventry (England) - 1846 - 156 pages
...took pride in writing a folio Volume with one pen, as he describes in the following distich : — " With one sole pen I wrote this book, " Made of a Grey Goose quill, " A pen it was when it I took, " A pen I leave it still." during the latter years of his life on a small stiepend allowed... | |
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