 | Child life - 1884 - 314 pagina’s
...together, which were not common occurrences with me, I bought unto myself a copy of these beloved volumes; nor do I believe I ever read a book half so frequently or with half the enthusiasm. To this period also I can trace distinctly the awaking of that delightful feeling for the beauties... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1884 - 616 pagina’s
...were not common occurrences with me, I bought unto myself a copy of these beloved volumes ; nor do 1 believe I ever read a book half so frequently, or with half the enthusiasm. " at first naturally suggested itself, was set aside as too hackneyed and wearisome for a composition... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, Truman Jay Backus - 1884 - 508 pagina’s
...common occurrences with me—T bought unto myself & copy of these beloved volumes: nor do I believe 1 ever read a book half so frequently, or with half the enthusiasm." —Scott, in LockharCs Life. first appearance as an author was in translations from Burger. Scott was... | |
 | 1884 - 334 pagina’s
...is an essay on the " Ancient English Minstrels," some copies of which were struck off separately. " But, above all, I then first became acquainted with Bishop Percy's ' Reliques.' The first time, too, I could scrape a few shillings together, I bought unto myself a copy of these... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, Truman Jay Backus - 1884 - 500 pagina’s
...common occurrences with me—T bought unto myself & copy of these beloved volumes: oar do J believe 1 ever read a book half so frequently, or with half the enthusiasm." a, in LockharPs Life. first appearance as an author was in translations from Burger. Scott was now... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1887 - 296 pagina’s
...together, which were not common occurrences with me, I bought unto myself a copy of these beloved volumes ; nor do I believe I ever read a book half so frequently, or with half the enthusiasm. About this period also I became acquainted with the works of Richardson, and those of Mackenzie, with... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1887 - 182 pagina’s
...had too frequently reason to repent that few ever read so much, and to so little purpose. ... 355 " I then first became acquainted with Bishop Percy's Reliques of Ancient Poetry. ... I remember well the spot where I read these volumes for the first time. It was beneath a huge platanus-tree,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1887 - 184 pagina’s
...had too frequently reason to repent that few ever read so much, and to so little purpose. ... 355 " I then first became acquainted with Bishop Percy's Reliques of Ancient Poetry. ... I remember well the spot where I read these volumes for the first time. It was beneath a huge platanus-tree,... | |
 | Albert Henry George Grey Grey (4th earl), William Henry Fremantle - 1888 - 402 pagina’s
...I then became acquainted with Bishop Percy's ' Reliquus of Ancient Poetry.' . . . The first time 1 could scrape a few shillings together, I bought unto myself a copy of these beloved volumes ; nor do I believe I ever rracl a book half so frequently, or with half the enthusiasm." —LocKH ART'S... | |
 | Jane Hume Clapperton - 1888 - 290 pagina’s
...printed on antique paper, and handsomely bound in cloth gilt, gilt tops, 36*. " But above all, I then became acquainted with Bishop Percy's ' Reliques of Ancient Poetry.' . . . The first time I could scrape a few shillings together, I bought unto myself a copy of these beloved volumes ; nor... | |
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But above all, I then first became acquainted with Bishop ' Percy's Reliques of Ancient Poetry.' The first time, too, I could scrape a few shillings together, I bought unto myself" a copy of these beloved volumes j nor do I believe I ever read a book... 
