| Robert Shiells - 1753 - 366 Seiten
...giants, and monflers rilled his imagination; he read the whole over before he was 1 2 years old, and was made a poet, as immediately as a child is made an eunuch.' In the 1 6th year of his age, being dill at Weftminfter fchool, he publifhed a colleftion of poems,... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - 1772 - 300 Seiten
...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 upon letters, I went to ie' iini'verfhy ; but... | |
| Abraham Cowley - 1772 - 298 Seiten
...of the rhyme and dance :of •the numbers; fo that, I think, •I"' had 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 .fet upon letters, I went to • • the. univefflty... | |
| Abraham Cowley - 1772 - 228 Seiten
...tinkling of the rhyme and dance of the numbers; fo that, I think, I had 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 affeftions of mind, and my heart' •wholly fet upon letters,! went to the univerfity; but... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 520 Seiten
...tinkling of the rhyme and dance of the numbers; fo that, I think, I had read him all over before I was twelve years old, and was thus made a poet as immediately as a child ii made an eunuch. With thefe affeftions of mind, and my heart wholly fet upon letters, I went to the... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 514 Seiten
...tinkling of the rhyme and dance of the numbers ; fo that, I think, I had read him all over 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 upon letters, I went... | |
| Abraham Cowley - 1806 - 290 Seiten
...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 immediately as a child is made an eunuch. With these affections of mind, and my heart wholly set upon letters, I went to the university ; but... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 Seiten
...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 immediately as a child is made an eunuch. With these affections of mind, and my heart wholly set upon letters, I went to the university; but... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 556 Seiten
...the tinkling of the rhymet 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 immediately as a child is made an eunuch. With these affections of mind, and my heart wholly set upon letters, 1 went to the university; but... | |
| Abraham Cowley - 1809 - 286 Seiten
...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 immediately as a child is made an eunuch. With these affections of mind, and my heart wholly set upon letters, I went to the university ; but... | |
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