 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 sider
...reading," said Pope, " a canto of Spenser two or three days ago to an old lady, between seventy and eighty years of age, she said that I had been showing her...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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 sider
...reading," said Pope, " a canto of Spenser two or three days ago to an old lady, between seventy and eighty years of age, she said that I had been showing her...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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 sider
...reading," said Pope, " a canto of Spenser two or three days ago to an old lady, between seventy and eighty years of age, she said that I had been showing her...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... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 sider
...had] been showing her a collection of pictures. She said very right; and I know not how it is, but there is something in Spenser that pleases one as...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 566 sider
...appear from what he said to Mr. Spence, from whose Anecdotes I transcribe literally this passage : " There is something in Spenser that pleases one as...one's old age, as it did in one's youth. I read the Fairy Queen, when I was about twelve, with a vast deal of delight ; and I think, it gave me as much... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1849 - 602 sider
...Nos. 70 and 74. j Tl,is was ,he expression of Pope. (Spence, p. 171 ) He said, on another occasion: "There is something in Spenser that pleases one as...one's old age as it did in one's youth. I read the Fairy Queen when I was about twelve, with infinite delight, and I think it gave me as much when I read... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1850 - 770 sider
...I had been showing her a collection of pictures. She said very right. And I know not how it is, but there is something in Spenser that pleases one as...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... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1851 - 768 sider
...I had been showing her a collection of pictures. She said very right. And I know not how it is, but there is something in Spenser that pleases one as...one's old age as it did in one's youth. I read the Faery Queen when 1 was about twelve, with a vast deal of delight ; and I think it gave me as much when... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1853 - 428 sider
...70. and 74. ** This was the expression of Pope. (Spence, p. 171.) He said, on another occasion: — "There is something in Spenser that pleases one as...one's old age as it did in one's youth. I read the Fairy Queen '"when I was about twelve, with infinite delight, and I think it gave me " m much when... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 766 sider
...After reading a canto of Spenser, two or three days ago, to an old lady between seventy and eighty years of age, she said that I had been showing her...one as strongly in one's old age as it did in one's yonth. I re;id the Faerie Queene when I was about twelve, with infinite delight; and I think it gave... | |
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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. 
