 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...  The British Poets: Including Translations ... - Стр. 184авторы: British poets - 1822Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Gerard Langbaine - 1691 - Страниц: 626
...'dance of the Numbers, that he had read him 'all over before he was Twelve years old, and 'was thus made a Poet as immediately as a ' Child is made an Eunuch. Thus he gradualy 'grew up to that maturity both of Fancy and ' Judgmentjthat (in the opinion of a great... | |
 | Robert Shiells - 1753 - Страниц: 366
...giants, and monflers rilled his imagination; he read the whole over before he was 1 2 years old, and was made a poet, as immediately as a child is made an eunuch.' In the 1 6th year of his age, being dill at Weftminfter fchool, he publifhed a colleftion of poems,... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1772 - Страниц: 298
...numbers; fo that, I think, •I"' had read him all over before I was twelve •years old, and was thus made a poet as immediately as a child is made an eunuch. With thefe affections of mind, and my heart wholly .fet upon letters, I went to • • the. univefflty... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1772 - Страниц: 300
...i59n«e'ibF'rfie numbers; fo that, I think, 'Ifhad read him all over before I was twelve years old, and was thus made a poet as immediately as a child is made an eunuch. With thefe affections of mind, and my heart wholly fee upon letters, I went to ie' iini'verfhy ; but was... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1772 - Страниц: 228
...the numbers; fo that, I think, I had read him all over before I was twelve years old, and was thus made a poet as immediately as a child is made an eunuch. With thefe affeftions of mind, and my heart' •wholly fet upon letters,! went to the univerfity; but was... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - Страниц: 424
...the numbers ; fo that, I think, I had read him all over before I was twelve years old, and was thus made a poet as immediately as a child is made an eunuch. With thefe alfeftions of mind, and my heart whelly fet upon letters, I went to the umverfity ; but was foon... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1806 - Страниц: 290
...the numbers ; so that, I think, I had read him all over before I was twelve years old, and was thus made a poet as immediately as a child is made an eunuch....university ; but was soon torn from thence by that violent publick storm, which would suffer nothing to stand where it did, but rooted up every plant, even frorn... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - Страниц: 1152
...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 as immediately as a child is made an eunuch....university; but was soon torn from thence by that public violent storm^ which would suffer nothing to stand where it did, but rooted up every plant,... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - Страниц: 548
...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 as immediately as a child is made an eunuch....affections of mind, and my heart wholly set upon letters, 1 went to the university ; but was soon torn from thence by that public violent storm, which would... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - Страниц: 556
...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 as immediately as a child is made an eunuch....affections of mind, and my heart wholly set upon letters, 1 went to the university; but \n» soon torn from thence by that public violent storm, whidh would... | |
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