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" I have also said that formerly pictures gave me considerable, and music very great delight. But now for many years I cannot endure to read a line of poetry. "
Agnosticism - Page 440
by Robert Flint - 1903 - 664 pages
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Proceedings and Reports of the Medical and Chirurgical ..., Volumes 89-91

Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland - Medicine - 1887 - 1134 pages
...calling into action other intellectual qualities, but may be almost obliterated thereby. He says : " In one respect my mind has changed during the last twenty or thirty years. Up to the age of 30 or beyond it, poetry of many kinds, such as the works of Milton, Gray, Byron, Wordsworth, Coleridge...
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Education

Education - 1919 - 714 pages
...that any faculty or member of the body that is" not used will atrophy, or waste away. Darwin says : "Up to the age of thirty, or beyond it, poetry of many kinds gave me great pleasure; and even as a schoolbpy I took intense delight in Shakespeare, especially in...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 143

1888 - 926 pages
...upon this conclusion, to quote another change that had come over Darwin's capacities and thoughts. " I have said that in one respect my mind has changed...of Milton, Gray, Byron, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Shelly — gave me great pleasure ; and even as a schoolboy I took intense delight in Shakespeare,...
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The Scientific Spirit of the Age: And Other Pleas and Discussions

Frances Power Cobbe - English essays - 1888 - 264 pages
...he is ordained her Priest ? Does he find his loftiest faculties atrophied when he has become a * " Up to the age of thirty, or beyond it, poetry of many kinds, such as the works of Milton, Byron, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Shelley, gave me great delight, and even as a school-boy I took intense...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 143

England - 1888 - 962 pages
...upon this conclusion, to quote another change that had come over Darwin's capacities and thoughts. " I have said that in one respect my mind has changed during the last twenty or thirty years. L'p to the age of thirty or beyond it, poetry of many kinds — such as the works of Milton, Gray,...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 48; Volume 111

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1888 - 916 pages
...has proved startling to a generation which, even when it is ready to abandon Religion, would be * " Up to the age of thirty, or beyond it, poetry of many kinds, such as the works of Milcon, Byron, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Shelley, gave me great delight, and even as a schoolboy I...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 42; Volume 48

Religion - 1888 - 504 pages
...Paradise Lost he read twice through, and carried the book with him on the Beagle. Later on he remarks, " up to the age of thirty, or beyond it, poetry of many kinds gave me pleasure," and he took especial delight in Shakespeare, especially in the historical plays....
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The Contemporary Review, Volume 54

Literature - 1888 - 950 pages
...mathematical or metaphysical. The former (especially the Biological group) have of late years come * " Up to the age of thirty, or beyond it, poetry of many kinds, snch as the works of Milton, Byron, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Shelley, gave me great delight, and...
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The Academy: A Journal of Secondary Education, Volume 7

Education - 1892 - 360 pages
...deliberately. Sentences thus scribbled down are often better ones than I could have written deliberately. I have said that in one respect my mind has changed...of Milton, Gray, Byron, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Shelly, gave me great pleasure — but now for many years I cannot endure to read a line of poetry....
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The Academy, Volume 7

Education - 1892 - 348 pages
...deliberately. Sentences thus scribbled down are often better ones than I could have written deliberately. I have said that in one respect my mind has changed...twenty or thirty years. Up to the age of thirty or bevond it, poetry of many kinds, such as the works of Milton, Gray, Byron, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and...
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