 ... to soften obstinacy; and whose very powers of intellect have been confounded by hearing the same dull lesson repeated a hundred times by rote, and only varied by the various blunders of the reciters. Even the flowers of classic genius, with which...  Waverley novels. Parker's ed., revised - Pagina 166di sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1839Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | John Young - 1810 - 432 pagine
...the same dull ' lesson repeated a hundred times by rote, and only varied ' by the various blunders of the reciters. Even the flowers ' of classic genius,...most ' gratified, have been rendered degraded, in his imagina' tion, by their connexion with tears, with errors, and with ' punishment ; so that the Eclogues... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1816 - 354 pagine
...hearing the same dull lesson repeated a hundred times by rote, and only varied by the various blunders of the reciters. Even the flowers of classic genius,...been rendered degraded, in his imagination, by their coniiection with tears, with errors, and with punishment ; so that the Eclogues of Virgil and Odes... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1820 - 370 pagine
...hearing the same dull lesson repeated a hundred times by rote, and only varied by the various blunders of the reciters. Even the flowers of classic genius,...fancy is most gratified, have been rendered degraded, iu his imagination, by their connexion with tears, with errors, and with punishment; so that the Eclogues... | |
 | John Leycester Adolphus - 1822 - 228 pagine
...solitary fancy is most gratified, have been rendered degraded, in his imagination, by their connexion with tears, with errors, and with punishment ; so...figure and monotonous recitation of some blubbering school boy. If to these mental distresses are added a delicate frame of body, and a mind ambitious... | |
 | John Leycester Adolphus - 1822 - 228 pagine
...hearing the same dull lesson repealed a hundred times by rote, and only varied by the various blunders of the reciters. Even the flowers of classic genius,...been rendered degraded, in his imagination, by their connexion with tears, with errors, and with punishment ; so that the Eclogues of Virgil and Odes of... | |
 | John Leycester Adolphus - 1822 - 340 pagine
...lesson repeated a hundred times by rote, and ' only varied by the various blunders of the re' citers. Even the flowers of classic genius, with ' which his...rendered degraded, in his imagination, by ' their connexion with tears, with errors, and with ' punishment ; so that the Eclogues of Virgil and ' Odes... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1823 - 396 pagine
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 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pagine
...times bj rote, and only varied by the various blunders of the reciters. > Even the flowers of classick genius, with which his solitary fancy is most gratified,...been rendered degraded, in his imagination, by their connexion with tears, with errours, and with punishment : so that the Eclogues of Virgil, and Odes... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1829 - 422 pagine
...hearing the same dull lesson repeated a hundred times by rote, and only varied by the various blunders of the reciters. Even the flowers of classic genius,...been rendered degraded, in his imagination, by their connexion with tears, with errors, and with punishment ; so that the Eclogues of Virgil and Odes of... | |
 | 1830 - 294 pagine
...been degraded in his imagination by their connection with tears, with cries, and with punishments; so that the Eclogues of Virgil, and Odes of Horace,...monotonous recitation of some blubbering schoolboy." If the scene be calculated to excite a smile, the story itself, from the pen of the late celebrated Mrs.... | |
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