 | Alexander Pope - 1797 - Liczba stron: 440
...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." VER. 13. Mifled by his ufual love of antithefis, he has formed a trifling epigram, inftead of giving... | |
 | 1820 - Liczba stron: 590
...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 I read it over about a year or two ago.— P.' The date of this memorandum is 1743-4, a year before Pope's death. What he says of Chaucer is equally... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1805 - Liczba stron: 440
...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...much, when I read it over about a year or two ago." Nor may I omit a few more remarks in regard to the language of the FaerieQueene, which js f afferted... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - Liczba stron: 446
...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...that " Pope has formed an Epigram, inftead of giving u» the manly plain fenfe of Horace." MEMOIRS OF TH E EXTRAORDINARY LIFK. WORKS, AND DISCOVERIES, OF... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - Liczba stron: 442
...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...ago." • WARTON. VER. 13. I fear we muft fubfcribe to Wavton's opinion, that " Pope has formed an Epigram, inftead of giving us the manly plain fenfe of... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - Liczba stron: 440
...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 of delight ; and I think it gave me as much when I read it over about a year or two ago." Out of the fourth and following stanza, misled by his love of antithesis, he has formed a trifling... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - Liczba stron: 600
...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 when I read it over about a year or two ago." Spence's Anecdotes, <p<'ted by Dr. Warton, who very justly censures Pope's Imitation of Spenser. See... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - Liczba stron: 562
...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... | |
 | Joseph Spence - 1820 - Liczba stron: 318
...strongly in one's old age as it did in one's youth. I read the Faery Queen when I was about 12, with avast deal of delight; and I think it gave me as much when I read it over about a year or two ago. — The same. SKELTON. Skelton's poems are all low and bad ; there is nothing in them that is worth... | |
 | Joseph Spence - 1820 - Liczba stron: 324
...strongly in one's old age as it did in one's youth. I read the Faery Queen when I was about 12, with avast deal of delight; and I think it gave me as much when I read it over about a year or two ago. — The same. SKELTON. Skelton's poems are all low and bad ; there is nothing in them that is worth... | |
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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... 
