 | George Lillie Craik - 1865 - Počet stránok 594
...William Cookesley, — a name never to be pronounced by me without veneration. The lamentable doggrel which I have already mentioned, and which had passed...given him a curiosity to inquire after the author." Mr. Cookesley, who was a surgeon, and not rich, having learnt Gifford's history from himself, became... | |
 | Paul Keen - 2004 - Počet stránok 380
...found in the twentieth year of my age by Mr. William Cookesley, a name never to be pronounced by me without veneration. The lamentable doggerel which...with melancholy, and I laid it fairly before him: his first care was to console; his second, which he cherished to the last moment of his existence,... | |
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In this humble and obscure state, poor beyond the common lot, yet flattering my ambition with day-dreams which, perhaps, would never have been realized, I was found in the twentieth year of my age by Mr. William Cookesley, a name never to be pronounced... 
