When I had done with my priests, I took to reading by myself, for which I had a very great eagerness and enthusiasm, especially for poetry: and in a few years I had dipped into a great number of the English, French, Italian, Latin, and Greek poets. This... Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies - Էջ 171846Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
| Joseph Spence - 1820 - 322 էջ
...little way."— Mr. Pope. When I had done with my priests, I took to reading by myself, for which I had a very great eagerness and enthusiasm, especially...any design but that of pleasing myself; and got the Ianguages by hunting after the stories in the several poets I read, rather than read the books to get... | |
| Joseph Spence - 1820 - 318 էջ
...little way."— Mr. Pope. When I had done with my priests, I took to reading by myself, for which I had a very great eagerness and enthusiasm, especially...any design but that of pleasing myself; and got the Ianguages by hunting after the stories in the several poets I read, rather than read the books to get... | |
| Joseph Spence - 1820 - 318 էջ
...little way."— Mr. Pope. When I had done with my priests, I took to reading by myself, for which I had a very great eagerness and enthusiasm, especially...any design but that of pleasing myself; and got the Ianguages by hunting after the stories in the several poets I read, rather than read the books to get... | |
| david william - 1820 - 564 էջ
...to reading by myself, for which I had a very great eagerness and enthusiasm, especially for poetry i and in a few years I had dipped into a great number...Italian, Latin, and Greek poets. This I did without any other design, but that of pleasing myself: and got the languages, by hunting after the stories in the... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1820 - 628 էջ
...' to reading by myself, for which I had very great eagerness and enthusiasm, especially for poetry. This I did without any design but that of pleasing...the languages by hunting after the stories in the poets I read, rather than read the book to get the language. I followed anywhere as my fancy led me,... | |
| Joseph Spence - 1820 - 324 էջ
...Latin, and Greek poets. This I did without any design but that of pleasing myself; and got the Ianguages by hunting after the Stories in the several poets...than read the books to get the languages. I followed every where as my fancy led me, and was like a boy gathering flowers in the woods and fields, just... | |
| 1820 - 632 էջ
...- to reading by myself, for which 1 had very great eagerness and enthusiasm, especially for poetry. This I did without any design but that of pleasing...the languages by hunting after the stories in the poeti I read, rather than read the book to get the language. I followed any where as my fancy led me,... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1820 - 616 էջ
...reading by my• self, for which I had very great eagerness and enthusiasm, especially for poetry. This I did without any design but that of pleasing...the languages by hunting after the stories in the poets I read, rather than read the book to get the language. I followed anywhere as my fancy led me,... | |
| Peter Armstrong Whittle - 1821 - 1042 էջ
...teaching he ever had. When he had done with this, he betook himself to reading privately, for which he had a very great eagerness and enthusiasm, especially for poetry: and in a few years he had dipped into a great number of the English, French, Italiau, Latin and Greek poets. This Pope... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 692 էջ
...discipline was, that it enabled him to devote more of his time to reading; for which, as he informs us, he had a very great eagerness and enthusiasm, especially for poetry; and in a few years he had dipped into a great number of English, French, Italian, Latin, and Greek authors. This he did... | |
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