"Writing! O, I should have written thousands of pamphlets by this time, if it wasn't that--that the first sentence is so damn'd hard to get over; but, unluckily, I have such a profusion of ideas, that, when I sit down to write, there is so much crowding and jostling among them, that, curse me, your Majesty, if I know which to take first."
— Poole, John (1786-1872)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
first performed: 19 Nov 1819.
Date
1819
Metaphor
"Writing! O, I should have written thousands of pamphlets by this time, if it wasn't that--that the first sentence is so damn'd hard to get over; but, unluckily, I have such a profusion of ideas, that, when I sit down to write, there is so much crowding and jostling among them, that, curse me, your Majesty, if I know which to take first."
Metaphor in Context
TREA.
Writing! O, I should have written thousands of pamphlets by this time, if it wasn't that--that the first sentence is so damn'd hard to get over; but, unluckily, I have such a profusion of ideas, that, when I sit down to write, there is so much crowding and jostling among them, that, curse me, your Majesty, if I know which to take first.
Writing! O, I should have written thousands of pamphlets by this time, if it wasn't that--that the first sentence is so damn'd hard to get over; but, unluckily, I have such a profusion of ideas, that, when I sit down to write, there is so much crowding and jostling among them, that, curse me, your Majesty, if I know which to take first.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "idea" and "crowd" in HDIS (Drama)
Date of Entry
03/13/2006
