 | Boys - 1880 - 362 стор.
...first time, too, I could scrape a few shillings together, which were not common occurrences with me, I bought unto myself a copy of these beloved volumes...book half so frequently or with half the enthusiasm." Scott's example may be pressed upon the attention of the 274 GO AND DO LIKEWISE. reader ; for it is... | |
 | 1880 - 282 стор.
...together, which were not common occurrences with me, I bought unto myself a copy of these delightful volumes, nor do I believe I ever read a book half so frequently, or with half the enthusiasm." The charming imitations of the old ballads in the Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border owe their origin... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1880 - 442 стор.
...were not common occurrences with me— I bought unto myself a copy of these heloved volumes : nor do 1 believe I ever read a book half so frequently, or with half the enthusiasm." —Scott, in Lockhard Ufe. entered the profession of the law. It had little charm for him. English,... | |
 | English poetry - 1880 - 486 стор.
...shillings together, he bought himself a copy of these beloved volumes ; nor (he adds) do I believe that I ever read a book half so frequently or with half the enthusiasm." It was probably at a later period of life that he made himself acquainted with the three volumes of... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1882 - 424 стор.
...first time, too, I could scrape a few shillings together, which were not common occurrences with me, I bought unto myself a copy of these beloved volumes,...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 —... | |
 | John Dennis - 1883 - 426 стор.
...recitations from the ballads of Bishop Percy. The first time, too, I could scrape a few shillings together I bought unto myself a copy of these beloved volumes...book half so frequently or with half the enthusiasm." No editor can pretend to fix a date for what may be justly called the people's poetry. We can trace... | |
 | William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard - 1883 - 394 стор.
...first time, too, I could scrape a few shillings together, which were not common occurrences with me, I bought unto myself a copy of these beloved volumes...half so frequently, or with half the enthusiasm." Another English poet, whose family was settled in the reign of Edward the Third at Peniston, near Doncaster,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1883 - 144 стор.
...first time, too, I could scrape a few shillings together, which were not common occurrences with me, I bought unto myself a copy of these beloved volumes;...half so frequently, or with half the enthusiasm." In the compilation of his own Border Minstrelsy he followed the impulse thus derived ; and when, after... | |
 | John Dennis - 1883 - 430 стор.
...recitations from the ballads of Bishop Percy. The first time, too, I could scrape a few shillings together I bought unto myself a copy of these beloved volumes...book half so frequently or with half the enthusiasm." No editor can pretend to fix a date for what may be justly called the people's poetry. We can trace... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1883 - 144 стор.
...first time, too, I could scrape a few shillings together, which were not common occurrences with me, I bought unto myself a copy of these beloved volumes...half so frequently, or with half the enthusiasm." In the compilation of his own Border Minstrelsy he followed the impulse thus derived ; and when, after... | |
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The first time, too, I could scrape a few shillings 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. 
