 | 1833 - 814 pagina’s
...such chimes of verses, as have never left ringing there. I remember when I began to read, and to take pleasure in it, there was wont to lie in my mother's...read him all over before I was twelve years old." Thus early enamoured of poetry, Cowley may almost be said to have " lisped in numbers." At the age... | |
 | John Fisher Murray - 1842 - 322 pagina’s
...delighted with the stories of the knights, and giants, and monsters, which I found everywhere there (though my understanding had little to do with all...read him all over before I was twelve years old." At Westminster School, " he lisped in numbers for the numbers came," and, while a schoolboy, published... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley, John Britton, Edward William Brayley - 1842 - 296 pagina’s
...stories of the knights and giants, and monsters, and brave houses, which I found every where there, (though my understanding had little to do with all...read him all over before I was twelve years old." — Vide Johnson's ENGLISH POETS, vol. ix. p. 122 ; 12mo. edition of his poems ; and having undertaken... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pagina’s
...stories of the knights, and giants, and monsters, and brave houses, which I found everywhere there other cause than his own «ill, ли«! seeth not...are the lashings that cause ¡hat will I [Oncoming 1 think I had read him nil over before I was twelve years old. With these affections of mind, and my... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1844 - 790 pagina’s
...stories of the knights, and giants, and monsters, and brave houses, which I found everywhere there (though my understanding had little to do with all...and by degrees, with the tinkling of the rhyme, and the dance of the numbers : so that I think that I had read him all over before I was twelve years old,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1846 - 620 pagina’s
...upon Southey that Spenser's works had upon the mind of Cowley ; "Iliad read him all over," he says, " before I was twelve years old, and was thus made a...poet as immediately as a child is made an eunuch." On the 4th of April, 1774, died Oliver Goldsmith, leaving unfortunately unfinished one of the best... | |
 | 1846 - 784 pagina’s
...on Southey that Spenser's works had upon the mind of Cowley : " I had read him all over," he says, " before I was twelve years old, and was thus made a...poet as immediately as a child is made an eunuch." On the 4th of April, 1774, died Oliver Goldsmith, leaving unfortunately unfinished one of the best... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1846 - 828 pagina’s
...on Southey that Spenser's works had upon the mind of Cowley : " I had read him all over," he says, " before I was twelve years old, and was thus made a...poet as immediately as a child is made an eunuch." On the 4th of April, 1774, died Oliver Goldsmith, leaving unfortunately unfinished one of the best... | |
 | 1846 - 782 pagina’s
...on Southey that Spenser's works had upon the mind of Cowley : " I had read him all over," he says, " before I was twelve years old, and was thus made a poet as immediately as a child is made an ennuch." On the 4th of April, 1774, died Oliver Goldsmith, leaving unfortunately unfinished one of... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 616 pagina’s
...stories of the knights, and giants, and monsters, and brave houses, which I found everywhere there (though my understanding had little to do with all...I was twelve years old, and was thus made a poet. With these affections of my mind, and my, heart wholly set upon letters, I went to the university ;... | |
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I found everywhere there (though my understanding had little to do with all this); and by degrees with the tinkling of the rhyme and dance of the numbers, so that I think I had read him all over before I was twelve years old, and was thus made a poet... 
