...disjointed spe3'4 cimens of history, ancient and modern ; scraps of poetry picked up from Shakespeare, Cowper, Wordsworth, and Milton ; newspaper topics...— all arrested and petrified and smothered by the fast-thickening everyday accession of actual events, relative anxieties, and household cares and vexations."...

...disjointed specimens of history, ancient and modern ; scraps of poetry picked up from Shakespeare, Cowper, Wordsworth, and Milton ; newspaper topics,...metaphysics, all arrested and petrified and smothered by the fast-thickening everyday accession of actual events, relative anxieties, and household cares and vexations."...

...of disjointed specimens of history, ancient and modern, scraps of poetry picked up from Shakespeare, Cowper, Wordsworth and Milton; newspaper topics; morsels...entomology and chemistry ; reviews and metaphysics." Theophile Gautier is, perhaps, the most extreme instance that can be cited. He learned to read at the...

...poetry picked up from Shakespeare, Cowper, Wordsworth and Milton ; newspaper topics ; morsels of Addispn and Bacon, Latin verbs, geometry, entomology and chemistry;...— all arrested and petrified and smothered by the fast-thickening, everyday accession of actual events, relative anxieties, and household cares and vexations."...

...made life and learning one. When nineteen years of age she had gathered together "an assemblage of disjointed specimens of history, ancient and modern;...and petrified and smothered by the fast thickening everyday accession of actual events, relative anxieties, and household cares and vexations." It is...

...disjointed specimens of history, ancient and modern ; scraps of poetry picked up from Shakespeare, Cowper, Wordsworth, and Milton ; newspaper topics...— all arrested and petrified and smothered by the fastthickening everyday accession of actual events, relative anxieties, and household cares and vexations."...

...of disjointed specimens of history, ancient and modern, scraps of poetry picked up from Shakespeare, Cowper, Wordsworth and Milton ; newspaper topics ;...relative anxieties and household cares and vexations." What was wrong was that her life was full to overflowing but with impressions and sensations too keenly...

...of disjointed specimens of history, ancient and modern; scraps of poetry picked up from Shakespeare, Cowper, Wordsworth, and Milton; newspaper topics;...— all arrested and petrified and smothered by the fast-thickening everyday accession of actual events, relative anxieties, and household cares and vexations."...

...history ancient and modern; scraps of poetry picked up from Shakespeare, Cowper, Wordsworth, and Milton; morsels of Addison and Bacon, Latin verbs, geometry,...and petrified and smothered by the fast thickening everyday accession of actual events, relative anxieties, and household cares and vexations. How deplorably...

...of disjointed specimens of history, ancient and modern, scraps of poetry picked up from Shakspeare, Cowper, Wordsworth, and Milton ; newspaper topics...geometry, entomology, and chemistry ; Reviews and metaphysics—all arrested and petrified and smothered by the fast-thickening anxiety of actual events,...