 | 1820 - 856 pages
...poets. This I did without 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 the languages. I followed every where as my fancy led me, and was like a boy gathering... | |
 | 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 pages
...the stories in the poets I read, rather than read the book to get the language. I followed anywhere as my fancy led me, and was like a boy gathering flowers in the fields and woods, just as they fell in his way. These five or six years I still look upon as the happiest part of my life.' An intelligent... | |
 | 1820 - 632 pages
...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, and was like a boy gathering flowers in the fields and woods, just as they fell in his way. These five or six years I still look upon as the happiest part of my life.' An intelligent... | |
 | Joseph Spence - 1820 - 324 pages
...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 I read, rather...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... | |
 | 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 pages
...the stories in the poets I read, rather than read the book to get the language. I followed anywhere as my fancy led me, and was like a boy gathering flowers in the fields and woods, just as they fell in his way. These five or six years I still look upon as the happiest part of my life.' An intelligent... | |
 | Joseph Spence - 1820 - 318 pages
...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 I read, rather...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... | |
 | Joseph Spence - 1820 - 322 pages
...in the several poets I read, rather 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 as they fall in his way; and these five or six years I still look upon as the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 692 pages
...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 fancy led me, and was like a boy gathering flowers in the woods and fields... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 694 pages
...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 fancy led me, and was like a boy gathering flowers in the woods and fields... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1830 - 482 pages
...myself," say* Pope, " for which I had a very great eagerness and enthusiasm ; I followed ev -ty where, as my fancy led me, and was like a boy gathering flowers in the fields and woods, just ta they fell in his way. These five or ai.t years I ntill look upon us the happiest part of my life."... | |
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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 everywhere as my fancy led me, and was like a boy gathering flowers... 
