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
| Walter Scott - 1871 - 516 pages
...the number mentioned in the text, has this quatrain at the end of the volume — • "With one good pen I wrote this book, Made of a grey goose quill ; A pen it was when it I took, And a pen I leave it still." peace, wealth, and a regular government. Houses were rising... | |
| SIR WALTER SCOTT - 1871 - 520 pages
...than the number mentioned in the text, haa this quatrain at the end of the volume— " With one good pen I wrote this book, Made of a grey goose quill; A pen it was when it I took, peace, wealth, and a regular government. Houses were rising in every direction; and the... | |
| William Carew Hazlitt - Anecdotes - 1900 - 380 pages
...he had written a large folio volume with one pen, on which he composed the following stanza : — " With one sole pen I wrote this book, Made of a grey goose-quill; A pen it was when I it took, And a pen I leave it still." 475"IT THEN I am very ill indeed,... | |
| William Carew Hazlitt - Anecdotes - 1872 - 390 pages
...that he had written a large folio volume with one pen, on which he composed the following stanza : — "With one sole pen I .wrote this book, Made of a grey goose-quill ; A pen it was when I it took, And a pen I leave it still." 475"V \ 7HEN I am very ill... | |
| Henry Philip Dodd - Epigrams - 1875 - 748 pages
...folio with a sin,_'l>/ pen. (Granger's " Biographical History of England ") : 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. There were two well-known Sir Thomas Robinsons; one, of Robtby... | |
| 1881 - 590 pages
...which he thought remarkable enough to be celebrated by the following lines prefixed to his work : " With one sole pen I wrote this book, Made of a grey goose quill j A pen it was when it I took, A pen 1 leave it still." Another serviceable pen was that of Allatius,... | |
| 1879 - 796 pages
...with one and the same 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," continucth the historian, " he solemnly... | |
| 1879 - 802 pages
...and the same pen " whereon he himself thus pleasantly versified " : With one sole pen I writ thifl 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," continueth the historian, " he solemnly... | |
| 1885 - 330 pages
...Coventry, translated Pliny's " Natural History" into English with one Pen, and he thus records it:— " With one sole Pen, I wrote this Book, " Made of a grey goose Quill; " A Pen it was when I it took, "APenlleaTeitstill." The Cutting of a Quill Pen to Write the different Hands, or, indeed, any Hand... | |
| Samuel G. Drake - Indians of North America - 1880 - 800 pages
...kil Inmlation* 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. Fulltr's Worthies of Enr.and. •bout 60 persons. It was 14 miles south... | |
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