 | Louise Carew - 1926 - 252 페이지
...Spanish ronsnce of 'Felixmerte of Hircanis, in folio, which he read quite through. I hjiVe henrd hii attribute to these extravagant fictions that unsettled...which prevented his ever fixing in any profession."^ By 1760 heroic romances were in distinct disfavor. Chesterfield regarded them as a waste of time and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1928 - 670 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...After having resided for some time at the house of his uncle,1 Cornelius Ford, Johnson was, at the age of fifteen, removed to the school of Stourbridge, in... | |
 | Jennifer Robin Goodman - 1998 - 258 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.' " In 1776 Johnson was reading H Palmerino de Inghilterra. Burke admitted his fondness for Palmerin... | |
 | James Boswell - 1998 - 1540 페이지
...that unsettled turn of mind which prevented his ever fixing in any profession.' 1725: .STAT. 16. — AFTER having resided for some time at the house of...of fifteen, removed to the school of Stourbridge, hi Worcestershire, of which Mr. Wentworth was then master. This step was taken by the advice of his... | |
 | Lawrence Lipking - 2009 - 396 페이지
...chivalric romances had cast a spell over him in his boyhood, a charm he never wholly escaped. Thomas Percy "heard him attribute to these extravagant fictions...turn of mind which prevented his ever fixing in any profession."12 As a creator as well as a critic of fiction, Johnson could not forget that he had first... | |
 | Robert L. Mack - 2000 - 768 페이지
...'immoderately fond of reading romances of chivalry', and that he retrospectively attributed to such 'extravagant' fictions 'that unsettled turn of mind which prevented his ever fixing on any profession'.36 Gray's childhood reading similarly cultivated a life-long fondness for such chivalric... | |
 | Sarah Fielding - 2002 - 524 페이지
...that reading romances was harmful: James Boswell wrote of Samuel Johnson's reading of romances that 'I have heard him attribute to these extravagant fictions...which prevented his ever fixing in any profession' (Boswell, Life of Johnson, ed. R. W Chapman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1905; reprinted 1985),... | |
 | Helen Deutsch - 2005 - 337 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.' 6 This counter-anecdote of immoderate literary appetite reveals a random and romantic undertone to... | |
 | Helen Deutsch - 2005 - 337 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...turn of mind which prevented his ever fixing in any profession.'6 This counter-anecdote of immoderate literary appetite reveals a random and romantic undertone... | |
 | James Boswell - 2008 - 1024 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...school of Stourbridge, in Worcestershire, of which Mr Wentworth was then master. This step was taken by the advice of his cousin, the Reverend Mr Ford, a... | |
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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... 
