I possessed, it may be imagined, but cannot be described, with what delight I saw pieces of the same kind which had amused my childhood, and still continued in secret the Delilahs of my imagination, considered as the subject of sober research, grave commentary,... American Quarterly Review - Страница 214аутор(и): - 1837Пуни преглед - О овој књизи
| John Dennis - 1883 - 426 страница
...hands. The influence it exercised was magical, and it was permanent. " I remember well," he wrote, " the spot where I read these volumes for the first time. It was beneath a large platanus tree, the ruins of which had been intended for an oldfashioned arbour. The summer day... | |
| John Dennis - 1883 - 430 страница
...hands. The influence it exercised was magical, and it was permanent. " I remember well," he wrote, " the spot where I read these volumes for the first time. It was beneath a large platanus tree, the ruins of which had been intended for an oldfashioned arbour. The summer day... | |
| Child life - 1884 - 314 страница
...Shakespeare, nor can I forget the rapture with which I sat up in my shirt reading them by the firelight. lahs of my imagination, considered as the subject of sober...of emulating the best qualities of what his pious labor preserved. I remember well the spot where I read these volumes for the first time. It was beneath... | |
| Walter Scott - 1885 - 296 страница
...Delivered. But, above all, I then first became acquainted with Bishop Percy's Reliques of Ancient Poetry. I remember well the spot where I read these volumes for the first time. It was beneath a huge platanus-tree, in the ruins of what had been intended for an old-fashioned arbor in the garden I have... | |
| Henry James Nicoll - 1886 - 478 страница
...with his aunt at Kelso, became acquainted with Percy's " Reliques." " I remember well," he says, " the spot where I read these volumes for the first time. It was beneath a huge plantanus tree, in the ruins of what had been intended for an old-fashioned arbour in the garden I... | |
| Walter Scott - 1887 - 200 страница
...purpose. ... 355 " I then first became acquainted with Bishop Percy's Reliques of Ancient Poetry. ... I remember well the spot where I read these volumes for the first time. It was beneath a huge platanus-tree,1 in the ruins of what had been intended for an old-fashioned arbor in the 36° garden... | |
| Walter Scott - 1887 - 182 страница
...purpose. ... 355 " I then first became acquainted with Bishop Percy's Reliques of Ancient Poetry. ... I remember well the spot where I read these volumes for the first time. It was beneath a huge platanus-tree,1 in the ruins of what had been intended for an old-fashioned arbor in the 36° garden... | |
| Walter Scott - 1887 - 184 страница
...purpose. ... 355 " I then first became acquainted with Bishop Percy's Reliques of Ancient Poetry. ... I remember well the spot where I read these volumes for the first time. It was beneath a huge platanus-tree,1 in the ruins of what had been intended for an old-fashioned arbor in the 360 garden... | |
| Walter Scott - 1890 - 290 страница
...Delivered. But, above all, I then first became acquainted with Bishop Percy's Reliques of Ancient Poetry. I remember well the spot where I read these volumes for the first time. It was beneath a huge platanus-tree, in the ruins of what had been intended for an old-fashioned arbor in the garden I have... | |
| Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1890 - 488 страница
...Percy's " Reliques of Ancient Poetry " were a constant delight. " I remember well the spot," he writes, " where I read these volumes for the first time. It was beneath a huge platanus-tree, in the ruins of what had been intended for an old-fashioned arbor. . . . The summer... | |
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