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
| Sir Walter Scott - 1891 - 300 страница
...But above all, 1 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 arbour. The summer-day sped... | |
| John Wesley Hales - 1893 - 392 страница
...subject of sober research, grave commentary, and apt illustration by an editor who showed his practical genius was capable of emulating the best qualities...volumes for the first time. It was beneath a huge plantaine tree, in the ruins of what had been intended for an old-fashioned arbour in the garden I... | |
| John Wesley Hales - 1893 - 408 страница
...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...commentary, and apt illustration by an editor who showed his practical genius was capable of emulating the best qualities of what his pious labour preserved. I... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1894 - 158 страница
...cannot be described, with what delight I saw pieces of the same kind which had amused my childhood, and considered as the subject of sober research, grave...volumes for the first time. It was beneath a huge platanus-tree, in the ruins of what had been intended for an old-fashioned arbour in the garden I have... | |
| Walter Scott - 1897 - 328 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 hugh platanus-tree, in the ruins of what had been intended for an old-fashioned arbor in the garden... | |
| Henry Augustin Beers - 1898 - 480 страница
...recorded in an oft-quoted passage the impression that Percy's volumes made upon him in his school-days: "I remember well the spot where I read these volumes for the first time. It was beneath a huge plantain tree in the ruins of what had been intended for an old-fashioned arbor in the garden I have... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1901 - 518 страница
...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...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 - 1902 - 432 страница
...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, and apt illustration bv an editor who showed his poetical genius was capable of emulating the best qualities of what his... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1902 - 554 страница
...pieces of the same kind which 1 had amused my childhood, and still continued in secret the Delilahs of my imagination, considered as the subject ' of sober research, grave commentary, and apt illustra', tion, by an editor who showed his poetical genius was j capable of emulating the best qualities... | |
| 1902 - 1136 страница
...printed and annotated with all the solemnity of scholarship. But the story must be told in his own words. "I remember well the spot where I read these volumes for the first time," so he writes in his 'Autobiography.' "It was beneath a huge platanus-tree, in the ruins of what had... | |
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