 | James Boswell - 1831 - 600 페이지
...in the country, he chose for his regular reading the old Spanish romance of FKLIXMARTE OF HIRCANIA, in folio, which he read quite through. Yet I have...which prevented his ever fixing in any profession." Hawk. rjn £|]e autumn of the year 1725, he received an po L * invitation from his uncle2, Cornelius... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 604 페이지
...in the country, he chose for his regular reading the old Spanish romance of FELIXMARTE OF HIRCANIA, in folio, which he read quite through. Yet I have...which prevented his ever fixing in any profession." Hawk. |- jn j.ne autumn of the year 1 725, he received an invitation from his uncle2, Cornelius Ford,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 페이지
...in the country, he chose for his regular reading the old Spanish romance of FELIXMAHTE OF HIRCANIA, G [In the autumn of the year 1725, he received an invitation from his Hawk. uncle4, Cornelius Ford, to... | |
 | James Boswell - 1846 - 602 페이지
...HIK CANIA, in folio, which he read quite througn Yet I have heard him attribute to these ex travagant fictions that unsettled turn of mind which prevented his ever fixing in any profession." [In the autumn of the year 1725, he received an invitation from his "*"*" uncle 4, Cornelius Ford,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 페이지
...the country, he chose for his regular reading the old Spanish romance of Felixmarte of Uircania ', in folio, which he read quite through. Yet I have...school of Stourbridge, in Worcestershire, of which Mr. Wentworth5 was then master. This step was taken by the advice of his cousin the Rev. Mr. Ford, a man... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1850 - 918 페이지
...fondof romancesof chivalry. He read Felixmarte of Hircania, then at Dr. Percy's. " Yet," says Percy, " I have heard him attribute to these extravagant fictions...which prevented his ever fixing in any profession." Surely Percy must have misunderstood him. 29. A schoolfellow undertook to snpport him at Oxford, in... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 페이지
...the country, he chose for his regular reading the old Spanish romance of Felixmarte of Hircania 3 , e srlmul of Stourbridge, in AVorcestershire, of which Mr. Wentworth 5 was then master. This step was... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 496 페이지
...in the country, he chose for his regular reading the old Spanish romance of Fdixmarte of Hircania, in folio, which he read quite through. Yet I have...in any profession." After having resided for some tftne at the house of his uncle, Cornelius Ford, 1 Johnson was, at the age of fifteen, removed to the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1872 - 524 페이지
...partiality for this species of fiction in advanced years, and sometimes attributed to its influence that unsettled turn of mind which prevented his ever fixing in any profession. He passed two years at home in this excursive kind of desultory reading, and made translations in verse... | |
 | James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 페이지
...in the country, he chose for his regular reading the old Spanish romance of Felixmartc of Hircania, ter, .... I am, dear sir, most affectionately yours,...David.' ' ЫВ. BOSWELL TO DR. JOHNSON. ' EDINBURGH, Stourbriclge, in Worcestershire, of which Mr. Wentworth was then master. This step was taken by the... | |
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... when a boy he was immoderately fond of reading romances of chivalry, and he retained his fondness for them through life; so that [adds his Lordship] spending part of a summer at my parsonage-house in the country, he chose for his regular reading the... 
