 | Sir Walter Scott - 1890 - 612 стор.
...would hearken to me, with tragical recitations from the ballads of Bishop Percy. The first time, too, I could scrape a few shillings together, which were...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." In the compilation of... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1891 - 328 стор.
...would hearken to me, with tragical recitations from the ballads of Bishop Percy. The first time, too, I could scrape a few shillings together, which were...with the works of Richardson, and those of Mackenzie, with Fielding, Smollet, and some others of our best novelists. To this period also I can trace distinctly... | |
 | 1901 - 560 стор.
...Percy's collection of old ballads that, as Lockhart relates, he said concerning the book: "The first time I could scrape a few shillings together, which were...occurrences with me, I bought unto myself a copy of the beloved volumes; nor do I believe I ever read a book half so frequently, or with half the enthusiasm."... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1892 - 236 стор.
...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 do I believe I ever read a book hah" so frequently, or with half the enthusiasm."' — SIR WALTER SCOTT. The Glasse of Time. The Glasse... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1893 - 392 стор.
...would hearken to me with tragical recitations from the ballads of Bishop Percy. The first time too I could scrape a few shillings together, which were...book half so frequently or with half the enthusiasm.' XXI THE LAST DECADE OF THE LAST CENTURY (From The Contemporary Review for Sept. 1892) IT is just a... | |
 | Andrew Lang - 1896 - 278 стор.
...scrape a few shillings together I bought myself a copy of these beloved volumes ; nor do I believe that I ever read a book half so frequently, or with half the enthusiasm.' THE MINSTRELSY OF THE SCOTTISH BORDER. of which the first two volumes appea>ed in 1802 and the third... | |
 | Truman Jay Backus - 1897 - 510 стор.
...and not only gathered a vast treasure of unedited legends, but also made himself * " The first time I could scrape a few shillings together — which...half so frequently, or with half the enthusiasm." — Scott, in Lockhart's Life. Of this work there are many editions and volumes of selections. Nearly... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1898 - 496 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 ; nor do I believe I ever read a book so frequently, or with half the enthusiasm." The " Reliques " worked powerfully in Germany, too. It... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - 1900 - 652 стор.
...early ballads and songs known as Percy's ReKques of Ancient English Poetry. Of this he says : "I do not believe I ever read a book half so frequently, or with half the enthusiasm." His grandmother used to delight him with tales of adventure on the Scottish border. Later, Scott went... | |
 | 1898
...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.' In 1802-03, he printed his own collection of ballads, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, which did... | |
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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. 
