I don't even remember who wrote it but it was one of those 15th or 16th century poets.

Though I had a great dread of the island and felt I would never leave it alive, I eagerly wrote down everything she told me about its women.

Time's editor, Thomas Griffith, in his book, The Waist-High Culture, wrote: `` most of what was different about it ( the Deep South ) I found myself unsympathetic to.

Later Helion wrote of this phase: `` For years I built for myself a subtle instrument of relationships -- colors and forms without a name.

She wrote in her journal, `` I have not heard the least profane language since I have been on board the vessel.

Consequently, on October 31, 1896, Mrs. King wrote to Thompson, quite against her daughter's wishes, asking him not to `` recommence a correspondence which I believe has been dropped for some weeks ''.

O my genius, young and ripening, you would swear, -- when I wrote them ; ;

In `` My Song's Young Virgin Date '', for example, Thompson wrote: `` Yea, she that had my song's young virgin date Not now, alas, that noble singular she, I nobler hold, though marred from her once state, Than others in their best integrity.

Sturley on November 4 answered a letter from Quiney written on October 25 which imported, wrote Sturley, `` that our countriman Mr. Wm. Shak. would procure us monei: which I will like of as I shall heare when, wheare & howe: and I prai let not go that occasion if it mai sort to ani indifferent condicions.

Baker wrote: `` I tooke order with Sr. E. Grevile for the payment of Ceartaine monei beefore his going towardes London.

He said he was a friend of Heywood Broun who had run a free employment bureau for several months during the depression, but the generous Broun to whom I wrote did not know his name and I somehow conceived the morbid notion that the man in question was prowling round the house.

Mr. Burlingham, -- `` C.C.B. '' -- wrote to me once about an old friend of mine, S. K. Ratcliffe, whom I had first met in London in 1914 and who also came out for a week-end in Weston.

It also happened with the Inauguration, which was not re-run at all during the evening hours, and I wrote to the TV editor of the Times.

I wrote her that I'd met up with Eileen and that old bonds had proved too strong and asked her to send my clothes down by express.

In December I wrote her with authority that we would meet on the steps of the Hotel Astor, a rendezvous spot that I had learned was the most sophisticated.

But in order to keep Letch in the public eye and out of trouble, I wrote in a part especially for him -- that of a dashing ruffian who `` sees the light '' and is saved by the inspiring example of Mother Cabrini.

`` I wrote Bill in my last letter to forget that I had told him that I didn't mean to reconsider my decision not to change my mind -- and he seems to have misunderstood me ''.

After Gagarin became the Greatest Man in the World, for a nation that does not believe in the cult of personality or in careerism, Moreland wrote me a letter in which he said: `` I am not interested in how long a bee can live in a vacuum, or how far it can fly.

One wrote: `` ( I am so hungry ) I could eat a rider off his horse & snap at the stirups ''.

A Yank, disturbed by his increasing corpulence, wrote: `` I am growing so fat I am a burden 2 myself ''.

A Michigan soldier wrote his brother: `` I am well at present with the exception I have got the Dyerear and I hope thease few lines find you the same ''.

Private George Gray Hunter of Pennsylvania wrote: `` I am well convinced in my own mind that had it not been for officers this war would have ended long ago ''.

Lincoln wrote, " I think I am a Whig, but others say there are no Whigs, and that I am an abolitionist, even though I do no more than oppose the extension of slavery.

In her own defence, Bardot wrote in a letter to a French gay magazine: " Apart from my husband — who maybe will cross over one day as well — I am entirely surrounded by homos.

" God knows I go with a heavy heart ," he wrote six days later to his friend and political ally in England, Lord Godolphin, " for I have no hope of doing anything considerable, unless the French do what I am very confident they will not … " – in other words, court battle.

In response, Pasternak wrote directly to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, " I am addressing you personally, the C. C.

" Before Diderot ," Anne Louise Germaine de Staël wrote, " I had never seen anything in pictures except dull and lifeless colours ; it was his imagination that gave them relief and life, and it is almost a new sense for which I am indebted to his genius.

In one he wrote, " I am prevented from returning to my atelier, which, alas, I should never have left.

General Schuyler, upon learning of Allen's capture, wrote, " I am very apprehensive of disagreeable consequences arising from Mr. Allen's imprudence.

Allan Greenberg had scorned the design when it was first unveiled, but wrote later to J. Carter Brown: " I am forced to admit that you are right and I was wrong!

One opponent wrote: " I am surprised that one would go looking for a Chinese architect in America to deal with the historic heart of the capital of France.

To the contrary, both J. M. W. Turner and James Northcote were fervent acolytes: Turner requested he be laid to rest at Reynolds ' side, and Northcote ( who lived for four years as Reynolds ' pupil ) wrote to his family " I know him thoroughly, and all his faults, I am sure, and yet almost worship him.

Reynolds wrote to Jonathan Shipley, Bishop of St Asaph, a few weeks later: " Your Lordship congratulation on my succeeding Mr. Ramsay I take very kindly but it is a most miserable office, it is reduced from two hundred to thirty-eight pounds per annum, the Kings Rat catcher I believe is a better place, and I am to be paid only a fourth part of what I have from other people, so that the Portraits of their Majesties are not likely to be better done now, than they used to be, I should be ruined if I was to paint them myself ".

The presence of family compensated Reynolds for the absence of a wife ; he wrote on one occasion to his friend Bennet Langton, that both his sister and niece were away from home " so that I am quite a bachelor.

At that time, he kept his distance from his brother Pierre-Antoine Cousteau, a " pen anti-semite " who wrote the collaborationist newspaper Je suis partout ( I am everywhere ) and who received the death sentence in 1946.

Not all of the negative comments were public, as Charles Lamb, friend of Coleridge, expressed his fears of a negative response as he wrote: " Coleridge repeats so enchantingly that it irradiates and brings heaven and elysian bowers into my parlour while he sings or says it ; but there is an observation: ' never tell thy dreams ,' and I am almost afraid that Kubla Khan is an owl that won't bear daylight.

In a letter, he wrote: " I am not satisfied with the explanation I have given of the principles which regulate value.

In her excitement she wrote, " O how wild I am to get to work, my fingers farely itch & my eyes water to see a fine picture again ".

In her diary Maria wrote, " I am utterly heartbroken and despondent, but when I saw the blissful smile and the peace in his face that came after, it gave me strength.

Uruguayan band El Cuarteto de Nos wrote the song " Me Amo " ( I Love Myself ) in which the chorus sings " como Narciso soy " ( I am like Narcissus ).

As if to make certain that Wright would be unable to pay any settlement at all, Miriam wrote to prospective clients denouncing him ; ;

In the 1780s while Mozart lived and worked in Vienna, he and his father Leopold wrote in their letters that several " cabals " of Italians led by Salieri were actively putting roadblocks in the way of Mozart's obtaining certain posts or staging his operas.

After Christians in Ephesus first wrote to their counterparts recommending Apollos to them, he went to Achaia where Paul names him as an apostle ( 1 Cor 4: 6, 9-13 ) Given that Paul only saw himself as an apostle ' untimely born ' ( 1 Cor 15: 8 ) it is certain that Apollos became an apostle in the regular way ( as a witness to the risen Lord and commissioned by Jesus-1 Cor 15: 5-9 ; 1 Cor 9: 1 ).< ref > So the Alexandrian recension ; the text in < sup > 38 </ sup > and Codex Bezae indicate that Apollos went to Corinth.

The Count of Mérode-Westerloo, commander of the Flemish troops in Tallard's army wrote – " One thing is certain: we delayed our march from Alsace for far too long and quite inexplicably.

Charles de Gaulle described the role he envisaged for the French president when he wrote the modern French constitution, stating the head of state should embody " the spirit of the nation " for the nation itself and the world: une certaine idée de la France ( a certain idea about France ).

Robert Harley of The Absolute Sound wrote, in a 2008 editorial ( on Issue 183 ), that " blind listening tests fundamentally distort the listening process and are worthless in determining the audibility of a certain phenomenon.

He appointed a commission that set aside 3, 000, 000 acres ( 12, 000 km² ) of national parks and 2, 300, 000 acres of national forests ; advocated tax reduction for low-income Americans ( not enacted ); closed certain tax loopholes for the wealthy ; doubled the number of veterans ' hospital facilities ; negotiated a treaty on St. Lawrence Seaway ( which failed in the U. S. Senate ); wrote a Children's Charter that advocated protection of every child regardless of race or gender ; created an antitrust division in the Justice Department ; required air mail carriers to adopt stricter safety measures and improve service ; proposed federal loans for urban slum clearances ( not enacted ); organized the Federal Bureau of Prisons ; reorganized the Bureau of Indian Affairs ; instituted prison reform ; proposed a federal Department of Education ( not enacted ); advocated $ 50-per-month pensions for Americans over 65 ( not enacted ); chaired White House conferences on child health, protection, homebuilding and home-ownership ; began construction of the Boulder Dam ( later renamed Hoover Dam ); and signed the Norris – La Guardia Act that limited judicial intervention in labor disputes.

However this did not make Reynolds happy, as he wrote to Boswell: " If I had known what a shabby miserable place it is, I would not have asked for it ; besides as things have turned out I think a certain person is not worth speaking to, nor speaking of ", presumably meaning the King.

Cocteau's films, most of which he both wrote and directed, were particularly important in introducing the avant-garde into French cinema and influenced to a certain degree the upcoming French New Wave genre.

Jordanes wrote his Romana at the behest of a certain Vigilius.

Radcliffe, however, not only wrote little but also took a certain iconoclastic pride in having read little, remarking once of some vials of herbs and a skeleton in his study: “ This is Radcliffe ’ s library .” However, he bequeathed a substantial sum of money to Oxford for the founding of the Radcliffe Library, an endowment which, Samuel Garth quipped, was “ about as logical as if a eunuch should found a seraglio .”

At this period a certain Pallas devoted a monograph to Mithras, and a little later Euboulus wrote a History of Mithras, although both works are now lost.

Justin wrote that nearly all the Samaritans in his time were adherents of a certain Simon of Gitta, a village not far from Flavia Neapolis.

" He accepted a version of the inheritance of acquired characteristics ( which after Darwin's death came to be called Lamarckism ), and Chapter V discusses what he called the effects of use and disuse ; he wrote that he thought " there can be little doubt that use in our domestic animals strengthens and enlarges certain parts, and disuse diminishes them ; and that such modifications are inherited ", and that this also applied in nature.

As the Nazi party became the largest party in the Reichstag Horkheimer's 1932 observation proved chillingly prophetic: " Only one thing is certain ," he wrote, " the irrationality of society has reached a point where only the gloomiest predications have any plausibility.

He wrote to his Michigan friend Gwenda Strider, " I have certain other ' militant ' talents that are in short supply and greatly demanded.

Mark Thompson wrote that, apart from determining the succession, the English Bill of Rights did " little more than set forth certain points of existing laws and simply secured to Englishmen the rights of which they were already posessed.

Justice Sandra Day O ' Connor wrote that the federal government can encourage the states to adopt certain regulations through the spending power ( e. g. by attaching conditions to the receipt of federal funds, see South Dakota v. Dole ), or through the commerce power ( by directly pre-empting state law ).

In a late essay on Shelley, Yeats wrote, " I have re-read Prometheus Unbound ... and it seems to me to have an even more certain place than I had thought among the sacred books of the world.

He wrote to his wife on 14 January 1860: " I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life.

Tolkien wrote in his essay " On Fairy Stories " that the terms " fantasy " and " enchantment " are connected to not only "... the satisfaction of certain primordial human desires ..." but also "... the origin of language and of the mind.

In a letter of about 446 to a successor bishop of Thessalonica, Anastasius, Leo reproached him for the way he had treated one of the metropolitan bishops subject to him ; after giving various instructions about the functions entrusted to Anastasius and stressing that certain powers were reserved to the pope himself, Leo wrote: " The care of the universal Church should converge towards Peter's one seat, and nothing anywhere should be separated from its Head.

As she wrote, " Would it be wise of me to have scenes with his ( Louis XVI's ) ministers over matters on which it is practically certain the King would not support me?

Ingres's pupil Amaury-Duval wrote of him: " With this facility of execution, one has trouble explaining why Ingres ' oeuvre is not still larger, but he scraped out work frequently, never being satisfied ... and perhaps this facility itself made him rework whatever dissatisfied him, certain that he had the power to repair the fault, and quickly, too.

In 1930 economist William Howard Steiner wrote that the term was used " at one time to signify that a certain amount of bullion was stored in the Treasury while the equivalent paper in circulation " represented the bullion.