 | 1820 - 590 pages
...as my fancy led me; and was like a boy gathering flowers in the fields and woods, just as they fall in his way. — These five or six years I still look upon as the happiest part of my life. " In these rambles of mine through the poets, when I met with a passage or story, that pleased me more... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1820 - 628 pages
...the stories in the poets I read, rather than read the book to get the language. I followed anywhere as my fancy led me, and was like a boy gathering flowers...twelve, and when he was about fifteen, he resolved that he would go to London and learn French and Italian. We in the family looked upon it as a wildish sort... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1820 - 616 pages
...the stories in the poets I read, rather than read the book to get the language. I followed anywhere as my fancy led me, and was like a boy gathering flowers...twelve, and when he was about fifteen, he resolved that he would go to London and learn French and Italian. We in the family looked upon it as a wildish sort... | |
 | Joseph Spence - Authors, English - 1820 - 324 pages
...me, and was like a boy gathering flowers in the woods and fields, just as they fall in his way ; and these five or six years I still look upon as the happiest part of my life. — The same. In these rambles of mine through the poets, when I met with a passage or story that pleased... | |
 | Joseph Spence - Authors, English - 1820 - 318 pages
...and was like a '.boy gathering flowers in the woods and fields, just as they fall in his way ; and these five or six years I still look upon as the happiest part of my life. — The same. In these rambles of mine through the poets, when I met with a passage or story that pleased... | |
 | Joseph Spence - Authors, English - 1820 - 322 pages
...me, and was like a boy gathering flowers in the woods and fields, just as they fall in his way; and these five or six years I still look upon as the happiest part of my life.—The same. In these rambles of mine through the poets, when I met with a passage or story that... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 694 pages
...led me, and was like a boy gathering flowers in the woods and fields just as they fell in my way, and these five or six years I still look upon as the happiest part of my life.* The writings of Dryden soon, however, attracted his notice, and became the more particular object of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 692 pages
...led me, and was like a boy gathering flowers in the woods and fields just as they fell in my way, and these five or six years I still look upon as the happiest part of my life.* The writings of Dryden soon, however, attracted his notice, and became the more particular object of... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - English letters - 1830 - 488 pages
...for which I had a very great eagerness and enthusiasm ; I followed evory where, as my fancy led roe, and was like a boy gathering flowers in the fields...still look upon as the happiest part of my life." It appears, too, that be was himself aware of the advantages which this free course of study brought... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Authors, English - 1830 - 532 pages
...great eagerness and enthusiasm; ..... I followed every where, as my fancy led me, and was like a bey gathering flowers in the fields and woods, just as...still look upon as the happiest part of my life." It appears, too, that he was himself aware of the advantages which this free course of stn:1y brought... | |
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... but that of pleasing myself: and got the languages, by hunting after the stories in the several poets I read; rather than read the books to get the languages. I followed... 
