My mind presents just such an assemblage of disjointed specimens of history, ancient and modern ; scraps of poetry picked up from Shakespeare, Cowper, Wordsworth, and Milton ; newspaper topics ; morsels of Addison and Bacon, Latin verbs, geometry, entomology,... The Writer - 99. lappuse1913Pilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
| Mathilde Blind - 1904 - 426 lapas
...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."... | |
| William Joseph Long - 1909 - 632 lapas
...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."... | |
| 1911 - 850 lapas
...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... | |
| Mary Hannah Deakin - 1913 - 244 lapas
...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."... | |
| Edwin Watts Chubb - 1914 - 488 lapas
...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... | |
| George Eliot - 1914 - 600 lapas
...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."... | |
| Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane - 1927 - 344 lapas
...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... | |
| John Cournos - 1928 - 494 lapas
...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."... | |
| Joan Bennett - 1962 - 230 lapas
...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... | |
| Oscar Browning - 1890 - 198 lapas
...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,... | |
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