 I don't know how it is, but she said very right : there is something in Spenser that pleases one as strongly in one's old age, as it did in one's youth. I read the Faerie Queene, when I was about twelve, with infinite delight; and I think it gave me as...  A History of Modern English Romanticism - Page 94by Harko Gerrit de Maar - 1924 - 246 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1797 - 440 pages
...I tranfcribe literally this paffage : " There is fomething in Spencer that pleafes one as ftrongly in one's old age as it did in one's youth. I read the Fairy Queen when I was about twelve with a vail deal of delight ; and I think it gave me as much when I read it over about a year or two ago."... | |
 | 1820 - 590 pages
...that / had been showing her a gallery of pictures. I don't know how it is, but she said very right. There is something in Spenser that pleases one as...one's old age, as it did in one's youth. I read the Faerie Queene, when I was about twelve, with infinite delight ; and I think it gave me as much, when... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1805 - 440 pages
...age as it did in one's youth. I read the Faerie Queene when I was about twelve with a vaft deal of delight; and I think it gave me as much, when I read it over about a year or two ago." Nor may | omit a few more remarks in regard to the language of the FaeneQueene, which is f aflerted... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1805 - 440 pages
...from his early to his later years: ^'^There is fomethirig in Spenfer that pleafefc one as ftrongly in one's old age as it did in one's youth. I read the Faerie Qtteene when I was about twelve with a vaft deal of delight ; and I think it gave me as much,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 446 pages
...I tranfcribe literally this paffage : " There is fomething in Spencer that pleafes one as ftrongly in one's old age as it did in one's, youth. I read the Fairy Queen when I was about twelve with a vaft deal of delight ; and I think it gave me as much when I read it over about a year or two ago."... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 444 pages
...I tranfcribe literally this palfage : " There is fomething in Spencer that pleafes one as flrongly in one's old age as it did in one's youth. I read the Fairy Queen when I was about twelve with a vaft deal of delight ; and I think it gave me as much when I read it over about a year or two ago."... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 442 pages
...I tranfcribe literally this paffage : " There is fomething in Spencer that pleafes one as ftrongly in one's old age as it did in one's youth. I read the Fairy Queen •when I was about twelve with a vaft deal of delight ; and I think it gave me as much when I read it over about a year or two ago."... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 464 pages
...favourite, will appear from what he said to Mr. Spence; from whose anecdotes this passage is transcribed : " There is something in Spenser that pleases one as strongly in one's old-age, as it did in one's youth : I read the Faery Queen when I was about twelve with a vast deal... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 600 pages
...illustration of which demands the skill and industry of the antiquary. 1 " There is something," said Pope, " in Spenser, that pleases one as strongly in one's old age as' it did in one's youth . I read the Faerie Queene, when I was about twel ve, with a vast deal of delight : md I think it gave me as much... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 562 pages
...one's youth. I read the Faerie Queene, when I was about twelve, with a vast deal of delight : ™ 1 think it gave me as much when I read it over about a year or two ago." Spence's Anecdotes, by Dr. Warton, who very justly censures Pope's Imitation of Spenser. See Pope's... | |
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