 I have also said that formerly pictures gave me a considerable and music very great delight. But now for many years I cannot endure to read a line of poetry : I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Seite 1041888Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland - 1887 - 1134 Seiten
...: " In one respect my mind has changed during the last twenty or thirty years. Up to the age of 30 or beyond it, poetry of many kinds, such as the works...and even as a schoolboy I took intense delight in Shakespear, especially in the historical plays. I have also said that formerly pictures gave me considerable,... | |
 | 1909 - 1106 Seiten
...famous and pathetic passage, Charles Darwin has said of himself the nineteenth century might say : "Up to the age of thirty or beyond it, poetry of many...and, even as a schoolboy, I took intense delight. But now, for many years, I cannot endure to read a line of poetry : I have tried lately to read Shakespeare,... | |
 | 1919 - 714 Seiten
...any faculty or member of the body that is" not used will atrophy, or waste away. Darwin says : "Up to the age of thirty, or beyond it, poetry of many kinds gave me great pleasure; and even as a schoolbpy I took intense delight in Shakespeare, especially in... | |
 | 1887 - 604 Seiten
...imagination : I have said that in one respect my mind has changed during the last twenty or thirty years. Up to the age of thirty, or beyond it, poetry of many...said that formerly pictures gave me considerable, nud music very great, delight. But now for many years I cannot endure to read a line of poetry. I have... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1888 - 916 Seiten
...proved startling to a generation which, even when it is ready to abandon Religion, would be * " Up to the age of thirty, or beyond it, poetry of many kinds, such as the works of Milcon, Byron, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Shelley, gave me great delight, and even as a schoolboy I... | |
 | 1888 - 950 Seiten
...mathematical or metaphysical. The former (especially the Biological group) have of late years come * " Up to the age of thirty, or beyond it, poetry of many kinds, snch as the works of Milton, Byron, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Shelley, gave me great delight, and... | |
 | 1888 - 480 Seiten
...Lost he read twice through, and carried the book with him on the Beagle. Later on he remarks, " up to the age of thirty, or beyond it, poetry of many kinds gave me pleasure," and he took especial delight in Shakespeare, especially in the historical plays.... | |
 | 1889 - 656 Seiten
...' ' I have said that in one respect my mind has changed during the last twenty or thirty years. Up to the age of thirty, or beyond it, poetry of many...and even as a school-boy I took intense delight in Shakspere, especially in the historical plays. I have also said that formerly pictures gave me considerable,... | |
 | 1892 - 360 Seiten
...deliberately. I have said that in one respect my mind has changed during the last twenty or thirty years. Up to the age of thirty or beyond it, poetry of many...of Milton, Gray, Byron, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Shelly, gave me great pleasure — but now for many years I cannot endure to read a line of poetry.... | |
 | 1892 - 348 Seiten
...respect my mind has changed during the last twenty or thirty years. Up to the age of thirty or bevond it, poetry of many kinds, such as the works of Milton, Gray, Byron, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Shelly, gave me great pleasure — but now for many years I cannot endure to read a line of poetry.... | |
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