 There is something in Spenser that pleases one as strongly in old age as it did in one's youth. I read the Faerie Queene, when I was about twelve, with infinite delight; and I think it gave me as much, when I read it over about a year or two ago."—...  The Works of Edmund Spenser - Page clxiiiby Edmund Spenser - 1805Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Warton - 1782 - 514 pages
...Spencer that pleafes one as ftrongly in one's old-age, as it did in one's youth ; I read the Fairy Queen when I was about twelve, with a vaft deal of delight;...much, when I read it over about a year or two ago." VOL. II. 3 N OUT OUT of the fourth and following ftanza, miflcd by his .love of antithefis, he has... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1797 - 440 pages
...one's old age as it did in one's youth. I read the Fairy Queen when I was about twelve with a vail deal of delight ; and I think it gave me as much when I read it over about a year or two ago." VER. 13. Mifled by his ufual love of antithefis, he has formed a trifling epigram, inftead of giving... | |
 | 1820 - 590 pages
...old age, as it did in one's youth. I read the Faerie Queene, when I was about twelve, with infinite delight ; and I think it gave me as much, when I read it over about a year or two ago.— P.' The date of this memorandum is 1743-4, a year before Pope's death. What he says of Chaucer is equally... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 444 pages
...Spencer that pleafes one as flrongly in one's old age as it did in one's youth. I read the Fairy Queen when I was about twelve with a vaft deal of delight...much when I read it over about a year or two ago." WARTON. VER. 13. I fear we muft fubfcribe to Warton's opinion, that " Pope has formed an Epigram, inftead... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 446 pages
...Spencer that pleafes one as ftrongly in one's old age as it did in one's, youth. I read the Fairy Queen when I was about twelve with a vaft deal of delight...much when I read it over about a year or two ago." WARTON. VER. 13. I fear we muft fubfcribe to Warton's opinion, that " Pope has formed an Epigram, inftead... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 442 pages
...Spencer that pleafes one as ftrongly in one's old age as it did in one's youth. I read the Fairy Queen •when I was about twelve with a vaft deal of delight...much when I read it over about a year or two ago." • WARTON. VER. 13. I fear we muft fubfcribe to Wavton's opinion, that " Pope has formed an Epigram,... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...one's old-age, as it did in one's youth : I read the Faery Queen when I was about twelve with a vast deal of delight ; and I think it gave me as much when I read it over about a year or two ago." Out of the fourth and following stanza, misled by his love of antithesis, he has formed a trifling... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 600 pages
...one's youth . I read the Faerie Queene, when I was about twel ve, with a vast deal of delight : md I think it gave me as much when I read it over about a year or two ago." Spence's Anecdotes, <p<'ted by Dr. Warton, who very justly censures Pope's Imitation of Spenser. See... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 562 pages
...one's youth. I read the Faerie Queene, when I was about twelve, with a vast deal of delight : ™ 1 think it gave me as much when I read it over about a year or two ago." Spence's Anecdotes, by Dr. Warton, who very justly censures Pope's Imitation of Spenser. See Pope's... | |
 | Joseph Spence - Authors, English - 1820 - 318 pages
...strongly in one's old age as it did in one's youth. I read the Faery Queen when I was about 12, with avast deal of delight; and I think it gave me as much when I read it over about a year or two ago. — The same. SKELTON. Skelton's poems are all low and bad ; there is nothing in them that is worth... | |
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