 Up to the age of thirty, or beyond it, poetry of many kinds, such as the works of Milton, Gray, Byron, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Shelley, gave me great pleasure, and even as a schoolboy I took intense delight in Shakespeare, especially in the historical...  Thoughts and After-thoughts - Page 115by Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree - 1913 - 315 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland - Medicine - 1887 - 1134 pages
...: " 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 pages
...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,... | |
 | Education - 1919 - 714 pages
...that 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 pages
...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... | |
 | 1888 - 926 pages
...thoughts. " 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 ; and even as a schoolboy I took intense delight in Shakespeare,... | |
 | Frances Power Cobbe - English essays - 1888 - 264 pages
...he is ordained her Priest ? Does he find his loftiest faculties atrophied when he has become a * " Up to the age of thirty, or beyond it, poetry of many kinds, such as the works of Milton, Byron, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Shelley, gave me great delight, and even as a school-boy I took intense... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1888 - 916 pages
...has 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... | |
 | Religion - 1888 - 504 pages
...Paradise 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.... | |
 | Literature - 1888 - 950 pages
...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... | |
 | Presbyterianism - 1889 - 656 pages
...writes: ' ' 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,... | |
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