 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
 | Joseph Henry Wade, Emma Sylvester - 1908 - 360 страница
...of ballads of the border compiled by Bishop Percy. Speaking of this collection, Walter Scott says: " I remember well the spot where I read these volumes...ruins of what had been intended for an old-fashioned arbor in the garden. hour of dinner, was sought for with anxiety, and was still found entranced in... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 страница
...BRYDGES, SIR SAMUEL EGERTON, 1800, ed. Phillips'* Theatrum Poetarum Anglicanorum, Preface, p. Ixx. th bitches, he drank with blackguards; he was miserable. We can see horribly clear, in the works arbor in the garden I have mentioned. The summer-day sped onward so fast, that notwithstanding the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1910 - 222 страница
...at Kelso, made the acquaintance of Percy's Reliques of Ancient Poetry. Of these books he writes : " 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. .... | |
 | Arthur Eustace Morgan - 1912 - 198 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...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... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - 1913 - 410 страница
...above all," he says, " 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 arbour in the garden I have... | |
 | Edwin Watts Chubb - 1914 - 488 страница
...was Percy's Reliques of Ancient Poetry. " I remember well the spot [he writes in his autobiography] where I read these volumes for the first time. It was beneath a high plantanustree, in the ruins of what had been intended for an old-fashioned arbor in the garden... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1922 - 518 страница
...with a gladness that made him forget everything else in the world. "I remember well," he has written, "the spot where I read these volumes for the first...ruins of what had been intended for an old-fashioned arbor in the garden I have mentioned. The summer day sped onward so fast that, notwithstanding the... | |
 | Reed Smith - 1928 - 196 страница
...delight over discovering it called forth one of the most interesting passages in his autobiography: r I remember well the spot where I read these volumes for the first time. . . . The summer day sped onward so fast that notwithstanding the sharp appetite of thirteen, I forgot... | |
 | Jane Millgate - 1987 - 242 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...grave commentary and apt illustration by an editor who shewed his poetical genius was capable of emulating the best qualities of what his pious labour preserved.... | |
 | R. R. Agrawal - 1990 - 316 страница
...read these ancient fragments of poetry in his school-days can be guessed from the following passage: "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 in the garden I have... | |
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