 | 1820 - 590 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 1820 - 856 pages
...for which I had a very great eagerness and enthwia«m, especially for poetry ; and, in a few years, 1 had dipped into a great number of the English, French,...any design but that of pleasing myself; and got the language* bv hunting after the stories in the several poets I read, rather than read the hooka to get... | |
 | Joseph Spence - Authors, English - 1820 - 324 pages
...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...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 - Authors, English - 1820 - 318 pages
...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...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 pages
...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... | |
 | 1820 - 632 pages
...- 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) - English literature - 1820 - 628 pages
...' 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,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1820 - 616 pages
...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 pages
...Italiau, Latin and Greek poets. This Pope did with a simple design, and that was of pleasing himself, and got the languages by hunting after the stories in the several parts he read, rathpr than read the boo'\s to get the languages. Pope followedPevery wheie us his fancy... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 692 pages
...French, Italian, Latin, and Greek authors. This he did without any design but that of pleasing himself, and got the languages by hunting after the stories in the several poets he read, rather than read the books to get the languages. "I followed," says he, "every where, as my... | |
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without any design except to amuse myself ; and got the languages by hunting after the stories in the several poets I read, rather than read the books to get the languages. I followed... 
