 | Thomas Medwin - 1847 - 408 էջ
...reproduced in a form more pure and perfect than they had been originally presented to his external senses. " As his love of intellectual pursuits was vehement,...simple as that of a hermit, with a certain anticipation at this time of a vegetable diet, respecting which he afterwards became an enthusiast in theory, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 350 էջ
...College testify to his industry, extraordinary memory, and general intellectual powers. We read, that " as his love of intellectual pursuits was vehement,...simple as that of a hermit, with a certain anticipation at this time of a vegetable diet, respecting which he afterwards became an enthusiast in theory, and... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1858 - 516 էջ
...meats" for breakfast, he had to his sorrow " vile bread, vile butter, and * At Oxford " his food wne plain and simple as that of a hermit, with a certain anticipation, even nt this time, of a vegetable diet, respecting which he afterwards bec:imc «u enthusiast in thcorv,... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1870 - 714 էջ
...A vivid flame was seen which alarmed the villagers ; and his landlord gave Shelley notice to quit. "As his love of intellectual pursuits was vehement,...purity and sanctity of his life most conspicuous." This is the testimony of Mr. Hogg ; and, as he and Shelley became at once, and continued during their... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1878 - 438 էջ
...completely developed than in Shelley ; in no being was the perception of right and of wrong more acute." " As his love of intellectual pursuits was vehement, and the vigour of his genius almost celestial, so wero the purity and sanctity of his life most conspicuous." " I never knew any one so prone to admire... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1879 - 216 էջ
...completely developed than in Shdley ; in no being was the perception of right and of wrong more acute." "As his love of intellectual pursuits was vehement,...purity and sanctity of his life most conspicuous." " I never knew any one so prone to admire as he was, in whom the principle of veneration was so strong."... | |
 | George Henry Calvert - 1880 - 316 էջ
...right and of wrong more acute." " As his love of intellectual pursuits was vehement, and the vigor of his genius almost celestial, so were the purity and sanctity of his life most conspicuous." " I never knew any one so prone to admire as he was, in whom the principle of veneration was so strong."... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Michael Rossetti - 1881 - 482 էջ
...A vivid flame was seen which alarmed the villagers ; and his landlord gave Shelley notice to quit. "As his love of intellectual pursuits was vehement,...purity and sanctity of his life most conspicuous." This is the testimony of Mr. Hogg ; and, as he and Shelley became at once, and continued during their... | |
 | Shelley Society - 1886 - 184 էջ
...A vivid flame was seen which alarmed the villagers ; and his landlord gave Shelley notice to quit " As his love of intellectual pursuits was vehement,...purity and sanctity of his life most conspicuous. " This is the testimony of Mr. Hogg ; and, as he and Shelley became at once, and continued during their... | |
 | Edward Dowden - 1886 - 584 էջ
...singularity. Shelley, it must be confessed, was deficient in true British devotion to the roast and boiled. His food " was plain and simple as that of a hermit,...anticipation, even at this time, of a vegetable diet." He could have lived, says Hogg, thinking of a somewhat later time, " on bread alone without repining.... | |
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As his love of intellectual pursuits was vehement, and the vigour of his genius almost celestial, so were the purity and sanctity of his life most conspicuous. 
