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| John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1837 - 610 pages
...saw pieces of the same kind which had amused my childhood, and still continued in secret the Delilahs of my imagination, considered as the subject of sober...best qualities of what his pious labour preserved. \l remember well the spot where I read these volumes for the first time. It was beneath a huge platanus-tree,... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, English - 1837 - 318 pages
...saw pieces of the same kind which had amused my childhood, and still continued in secret the Delilahs of my imagination, considered as the subject of sober...of emulating the best qualities of what his pious labor preserved. I remember well the spot where I read these volumes for the first time. It was beneath... | |
| 1837 - 828 pages
...deemed a subject worthy of grave research and expanded illustration, by one whose "genius showed that he was capable of emulating the best qualities of what his pious labour had preserved." He retained iu after life a distinct remembrance of the very spot in which these volumes... | |
| Early English newspapers - 1838 - 1080 pages
...saw pieces of the same kind which had amused my childhood, and still continued in secret the Delilahs of my imagination, considered as the subject of sober...of emulating the best qualities of what his pious labours preserved. I remember well the spot where I read these volumes for the first time. It was beneath... | |
| English essays - 1838 - 782 pages
...had amused my childhood, and still continued in secret the Delilahs of my imagination, considered u the subject of sober research, grave commentary, and...of emulating the best qualities of what his pious labours preserved. I remember well the spot where I read these volumes for the first time. It was beneath... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1839 - 422 pages
...saw pieces of the same kind which had amused my childhood, and still continued in secret the Delilahs of my imagination, considered as the subject of sober...volumes for the first time. It was beneath a huge platan us-tree, in the ruins of what had been intended for an old-fashioned arbour in the garden I... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 426 pages
...saw pieces of the same kind which had amused my childhood, and still continued in secret the Delilahs of my imagination, considered as the subject of sober...volumes for the first time. It was beneath a huge platanus-tree, in the ruins of what had been intended for an old-fashioned arbour in the garden I have... | |
| Theology - 1839 - 418 pages
...saw pieces of the same kind which had amused my childhood, and still continued in secret the Delilahs of my imagination, considered as the subject of sober...of emulating the best qualities of what his pious labor preserved." His love of natural beauty was awakened among those scenes which he did so much afterwards... | |
| August Wilhelm von Schlegel - 1840 - 434 pages
...saw pieces of the same kind which had amused my childhood, and still continued in secret the Delilahs of my imagination, considered as the subject of sober...best qualities of what his pious labour preserved. — Sir H'. Scott't Autobiography, PARTS I, II, III, IV, V, VI, & VII. THE PLAYS OF PHILIP MASSINCER,... | |
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