...such chimes of verses, as have never left ringing there. I remember when I began to read, and to take pleasure in it, there was wont to lie in my mother's...read him all over before I was twelve years old." Thus early enamoured of poetry, Cowley may almost be said to have " lisped in numbers." At the age...

...delighted with the stories of the knights, and giants, and monsters, which I found everywhere there (though my understanding had little to do with all...read him all over before I was twelve years old." At Westminster School, " he lisped in numbers for the numbers came," and, while a schoolboy, published...

...stories of the knights and giants, and monsters, and brave houses, which I found every where there, (though my understanding had little to do with all...read him all over before I was twelve years old." — Vide Johnson's ENGLISH POETS, vol. ix. p. 122 ; 12mo. edition of his poems ; and having undertaken...

...stories of the knights, and giants, and monsters, and brave houses, which I found everywhere there other cause than his own «ill, ли«! seeth not...are the lashings that cause ¡hat will I [Oncoming 1 think I had read him nil over before I was twelve years old. With these affections of mind, and my...

...stories of the knights, and giants, and monsters, and brave houses, which I found everywhere there (though my understanding had little to do with all...and by degrees, with the tinkling of the rhyme, and the dance of the numbers : so that I think that I had read him all over before I was twelve years old,...

...upon Southey that Spenser's works had upon the mind of Cowley ; "Iliad read him all over," he says, " before I was twelve years old, and was thus made a...poet as immediately as a child is made an eunuch." On the 4th of April, 1774, died Oliver Goldsmith, leaving unfortunately unfinished one of the best...

...on Southey that Spenser's works had upon the mind of Cowley : " I had read him all over," he says, " before I was twelve years old, and was thus made a...poet as immediately as a child is made an eunuch." On the 4th of April, 1774, died Oliver Goldsmith, leaving unfortunately unfinished one of the best...

...on Southey that Spenser's works had upon the mind of Cowley : " I had read him all over," he says, " before I was twelve years old, and was thus made a...poet as immediately as a child is made an eunuch." On the 4th of April, 1774, died Oliver Goldsmith, leaving unfortunately unfinished one of the best...

...on Southey that Spenser's works had upon the mind of Cowley : " I had read him all over," he says, " before I was twelve years old, and was thus made a poet as immediately as a child is made an ennuch." On the 4th of April, 1774, died Oliver Goldsmith, leaving unfortunately unfinished one of...

...stories of the knights, and giants, and monsters, and brave houses, which I found everywhere there (though my understanding had little to do with all...I was twelve years old, and was thus made a poet. With these affections of my mind, and my, heart wholly set upon letters, I went to the university ;...