 | Whitwell Elwin - 1902 - 574 страници
...morning. The timorous hare and sportive squirrel gambol around me like Adam in Paradise before he had an Eve ; but I think he did not use to read Virgil, as I commonly do there." l The scene is repeated in the Elegy — There at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes its... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1902 - 724 страници
...morning. The timorous hare and sportive squirrel gambol around me like Adam in Paradise before he had an Eve ; but I think he did not use to read Virgil, as I commonly do. This is the first expression, as far as I am aware, of the modern feeling of the picturesque. We shall... | |
 | 1905 - 572 страници
.... The timorous hare and sportive squirrel gambol around me, like Adam in Paradise before he had an Eve ; but I think he did not use to read Virgil, as I commonly do there." The beauty-spot which the poet thus discovered to the world has many interesting associations. We read... | |
 | Edward Verrall Lucas - 1907 - 456 страници
...morning. The timorous hare and sporting squirrel gambol around me like Adam in Paradise, before he had an Eve ; but I think he did not use to read Virgil, as...ever heard you answer me. I beg pardon for taking all the conversation to myself, but it is entirely your own fault. We have-old Mr. Southern at a gentleman's... | |
 | 1907 - 990 страници
...morning. The timorous hare and sportive squirrel gambol around me like Adam in Paradise, before he had an Eve ; but I think he did not use to read Virgil, as I commonly do there." It is not difficult to recognise in one of those sentences the original inception of the thought which... | |
 | Andrew Lang, John Churton Collins - 1907 - 588 страници
...morning. The timorous hare and sportive squirrel gambol around me like Adam in Paradise, before he had his Eve ; but I think he did not use to read Virgil, as I commonly do here. After his mother settled at West End House, Gray spent all his vacations with her, regularly... | |
 | William James Dawson, Coningsby Dawson - 1908 - 308 страници
...morning. The timorous hare and sporting squirrel gambol around me like Adam in Paradise, before he had an Eve ; but I think he did not use to read Virgil, as...ever heard you answer me. I beg pardon for taking all the conversation to myself> but it is entirely your own fault. We have old Mr. Southern at a gentleman's... | |
 | 1909 - 550 страници
...morning. The timorous hare and sportive squirrel gambol around me like Adam in Paradise before he had an Eve ; but I think he did not use to read Virgil as I commonly do there. ' ' The Burnham Beeches were, also, within easy reach from West-End House, which was situated in the... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1909 - 478 страници
...morning. The timorous hare and sportive squirrel gambol around me lile Adam in Paradise, before he had an Eve ; but I think he did not use to read Virgil, as I commonly do there. Jn this situation I often converse with my Horace, aloud tco, that is talk to you, but I do not remember... | |
 | Charles Swain Thomas - 1913 - 104 страници
...morning. The timorous hare and sportive squirrel gambol around me like Adam in Paradise before he had an Eve; but I think he did not use to read 'Virgil' as I commonly do here." To a student of Gray this letter reveals four significant traits,—love of nature, a melancholy... | |
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At the foot of one of these squats me I, (il penseroso) and there grow to the trunk for a whole morning. The timorous hare and sportive squirrel gambol around me like Adam in Paradise, before he had an Eve ; but I think he did not use to read Virgil,... 
