 | 1880 - Страниц: 818
...attention stands single, and takes them out of themselves. Sir Walter Scott owns to this memory. " I had always a wonderful facility in retaining in my memory whatever verses pleased me : " quoting the old Borderer who had no command of his memory, and only retained what hit his fancy.... | |
 | 1880 - Страниц: 812
...attention stands single, and takes them out of themselves. Sir Walter Scott owns to this memory. " I had always a wonderful facility in retaining in my memory whatever verses pleased me : " quoting the old Borderer who had no command of his memory, and onlv retained what hit his fancy.... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1882 - Страниц: 424
...for ever. Too young to trouble myself about the allegory, I considered all the knights and ladies and dragons and giants in their outward and exoteric sense,...Spenser's stanzas which I could repeat was really marvel" lous. But this memory of mine was a very fickle ally, and has through my whole life acted merely... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1885 - Страниц: 296
...forever. Too young to trouble myself about the allegory, I considered all the knights and ladies and dragons and giants in their outward and exoteric sense,...mine was a very fickle ally, and has through my whole life acted merely upon its own capricious motion, and might have enabled me to adopt old Beattie of... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - Страниц: 728
...forever. Too young to trouble myself about the allegory, I considered all the knights and ladies and dragons and giants in their outward and exoteric sense,...stanzas which I could repeat was really marvellous. — SIR WALTER SCOTT. No allegorical poem, either succeeding or preceding, has approached " The Faerie... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - Страниц: 654
...forever. Too young to trouble myself about the allegory, I considered all the knights and ladies and dragons and giants in their outward and exoteric sense,...stanzas which I could repeat was really marvellous. — SIR WALTER SCOTT. No allegorical poem, either succeeding or preceding, has approached " The Faerie... | |
 | 1885 - Страниц: 580
...Sir Walter, giving an account of his own boyhood, says : " Spenser I could have read forever ; and, as I had always a wonderful facility in retaining...Spenser's stanzas which I could repeat was really marvelous." Wallis. Of this mathematician it is related that while in the dark, he could extract the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1887 - Страниц: 200
...forever. Too young to trouble myself about the allegory, I considered all the 32° knights and ladies and dragons and giants in their outward and exoteric '...whatever verses pleased me, the quantity of Spenser's 325 stanzas which I could repeat was really marvellous. But this memory of mine was a very fickle ally,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1887 - Страниц: 184
...forever. Too young to trouble myself about the allegory, I considered all the 320 knights and ladies and dragons and giants in their outward and exoteric '...whatever verses pleased me, the quantity of Spenser's 3=s stanzas which I could repeat was really marvellous. But this memory of mine was a very fickle ally,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1887 - Страниц: 182
...forever. Too young to trouble myself about the allegory, I considered all the 320 knights and ladies and dragons and giants in their outward and exoteric '...whatever verses pleased me, the quantity of Spenser's 335 stanzas which I could repeat was really marvellous. But this memory of mine was a very fickle ally,... | |
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Too young to trouble myself about the allegory, I considered all the knights and ladies and dragons and giants in their outward and exoteric sense, and God only knows how delighted I was to find myself in such society. 
