 | Robert Southey - 1849 - 412 pages
...conversation," he says. He says 20007. will do; that he doubts not we can contract for our passage under 400/. ; that we shall buy the land a great deal cheaper when...room what and how important events have been evolved ! America ! Southey ! Miss Fricker ! . . . Pantisocracy ! Oh ! I shall have such a scheme of it ! My... | |
 | Sir Hall Caine - 1887 - 188 pages
...hostile Indians. . . . That literary characters may make money there, etc., etc. The mosquitos there are not so bad as our gnats, and after you have been there a little while they don't trouble you." It was all so beautifully clear and simple. Two thousand pounds would do ; the Susquehanna was free... | |
 | Clarence Weathers Bump - 1899 - 200 pages
...obtainable were all duly Impressed upon Coleridge, who, in his last sentence, says: "The mosquitoes are not so bad as our gnats; and after you have been...there a little while, they don't trouble you much." Truly a most excellent land agent: Joseph Cottle, the British bookseller, whose after reminiscences... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1911 - 332 pages
...dollars, a thousand acres may be cleared, and houses built on them. He recommends the Susquehanna, from its excessive beauty and its security from hostile...there a little while, they don't trouble you much. LETTER 10. To SOUTHEY 1 8 Sept. 1794. Since I quitted this room what and how important events have... | |
 | John Livingston Lowes - 1927 - 698 pages
...'that literary characters make money there' — the eloquent italics are Coleridge's — and that ' the mosquitos are not so bad as our gnats; and, after...there a little while, they don't trouble you much' [!]. So John Lawson cheerily observes of Carolina (p. 165) : ' as for Muskeetos, they hinder us of... | |
 | George Walker - 2004 - 396 pages
...saw a By son in his Life — but has heard of them — They are quite backwards. — The Musquitos are not so bad as our Gnats — and after you have...there a little while, they don't trouble you much. He says, the Women's teeth are bad there — but not the men's — at least — not nearly so much... | |
 | Adam Sisman - 2007 - 540 pages
...money there'; that 'he never saw a Byson in his Life - but has heard of them'; that 'the Musquitos are not so bad as our Gnats - and after you have been there a little while, they don't trouble you much'.3 Altogether this was very encouraging. Coleridge returned to Cambridge later than he had intended,... | |
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Beauty, and its security from hostile Indians — Every possible assistance will be given us. We may get credit for the Land for ten years or more as we settle upon it — That literary characters make money there, that etc., etc. 