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... Select Works - Stran 197avtor: Abraham Cowley - 1772Celotni ogled - O knjigi
| 1761 - 614 strani
...and giants, and monfters, and brave houfes, " which I found every where, though my underftan-Jing " had little to do with all this, and by degrees with...that I think I had read him all over, before I was Cowry's " twelve years old, and was thus made a poet as immedifpl. n. Svo. j n tne y ear 16^3, when... | |
| New and general biographical dictionary - 1761 - 600 strani
...and giants, and monfters, and brave houfes, " which I found every where, though my underftanJing " had little to do with all this, and by degrees with...that I think I had read him all over, before I was Cowley'i " twelve years old, and was thus made a poet as immediworks, " ately as a child is made an... | |
| Abraham Cowley - 1772 - 298 strani
...monfters, ••'actf "brave houfe's, which I found every 'where there (though my underftanding jfi.arJ little to do with all this) ; and, by degrees, with...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... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - 1772 - 300 strani
...by degr<-e$r;witn the tinkling of the rhyme and 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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 418 strani
...to fall upon, and was infmitely delighted with the ftories of the knights, and giants, and monfters, and brave houfes, which I found every where there...before I was twelve years old, and was thus made a poet as immediately as a child is made an eunuch. With thefe affcftions of mind, and my heart wholly fet... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 514 strani
...and giants, and monfters, and brave houfes, which I found every where there (though my imderftanding had little to do with all this); and, by degrees,...before I was twelve years old, and was thus made a poet as immediately as a chiJd is made an eunuch. With thefe affeftions of mind, and my heart wholly fet... | |
| 1798 - 604 strani
...knightf, and giants, and monitors, and brave houles, which I found every where, though my nndcrllanding had little to do with all this, and by degrees with the tinkling of the rhime, and dance of the numbers : fo that I think I had lead him all over before I was i 2 years old.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 842 strani
...do with all this] «nd, by degrees, with tinkling of the rhyme and dance of the numbers ; fo that, think, I had read him all over before I was twelve years old, and was thus made poet as immediately as a child is made an eunuch. With thefe affections of mind, and my heart wholly... | |
| Abraham Cowley - 1806 - 290 strani
...and giants, and monsters, and brave houses, which I found every-where there (though my understanding had little to do with all this) ; and, by degrees,...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... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 548 strani
...giants, and moustcrs, and brave houses, •which I found every where there : (though my un- " derstanding 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 as... | |
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