 | James Russell Lowell - 1904 - 356 sider
...adds that " no man was ever born with a greater genius or more knowledge to support it." Pope says, " There is something in Spenser that pleases one as strongly in 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... | |
 | 1910 - 832 sider
...from Pope: "After reading a canto of Spenser's Fairy Queen to an old lady between seventy and eighty years of age she said that I had been showing her a gallery of pictures." Great poet as he was, it is true that but comparatively few of his lines have been incorporated into... | |
 | Traugott Böhme - 1911 - 370 sider
...malerischen Reiz der PQ, die ihm geradezu wie „a gallery of pictures" erscheine, und fügt hinzu: „There is something in Spenser that pleases one...one's old age as it did in one's youth. I read the FQ when I was about twelve with infinite delight; and I think it gave me as much when I read it over... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1913 - 524 sider
...who used to ask. Pope is also quoted in Spence's " Anecdotes " (Section viii, 1743-4) as saying that "there is something in Spenser that pleases one as strongly in one's old age, as it did in one'- outb. I rrad the Faerie 'Juicnt' when [ was about rweive. with nnmrc .ieiiKht. and [ think it... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1915 - 342 sider
...reading," says 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 a gallery of pictures. I do not know how it is, but she said very right. There is something in Spenser that pleases one as strongly... | |
 | Friedrich W. D. Brie - 1923 - 328 sider
...of Spenser two or three day ago to an old lady, between seventy and eighty years of age, she sau so that I had been showing her a gallery of pictures. I don't know how i is, but she said very right. There is something in Spenser that pleases one as strongly in old age... | |
 | Harko Gerrit de Maar - 1924 - 266 sider
...entitle us to conclude that Pope had no genuine admiration for Spenser. Indeed, Pope assured Spence: "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... | |
 | 1820 - 620 sider
...between seventy and eighty years of age, she said that I had been shewing her a gallery of pictures. She said very right; there is something in Spenser...strongly in one's old age as it did in one's youth. [ road the Faerie Queene when I was about twelve, with infinite delight; and I think it gave me as... | |
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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. 
