 But now for many years I cannot endure to read a line of poetry: I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.  The Literary World - Page 51888Full view - About this book
 | 1888 - 272 pages
...Shakespeare. 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. I have also lost my taste for pictures or music." In the light of this confession of Darwin respecting the... | |
 | Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland - 1887 - 1134 pages
...plays. 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. I have tried lately to read Shakespear and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. I have also almost lost my taste... | |
 | 1909 - 1106 pages
...Coleridge, and Shelley, gave me great pleasure, and, even as a schoolboy, I took intense delight. But now, for many years, I cannot endure to read a line...also almost lost my taste for pictures or music.'' * The remedy is not new arguments for immortality, new theories of the atonement, a new philosophy... | |
 | 1919 - 714 pages
...music very great delight. I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and have found it so inexpressibly dull that it nauseated me. I have also almost lost my taste for pictures and music. My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding out general laws out of a large... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1887 - 586 pages
...plays. 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...have also almost lost my taste for pictures or music. Music generally sets me thinking too energetically on what I have been at work on, instead of giving... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1887 - 588 pages
...plays. 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...have also almost lost my taste for pictures or music. Music generally sets me thinking too energetically on what I have been at work on, instead of giving... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1887 - 570 pages
...plays. 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...have also almost lost my taste for pictures or music. Music generally sets me thinking too energetically on what I have been at work on, instead of giving... | |
 | 1887 - 604 pages
...plays. I have also said that formerly pictures gave me considerable, nud music very great, delight. But now for many years I cannot endure to read a line...have also almost lost my taste for pictures or music. Music generally sets me thinking too energetically on what I have been at work on, instead of giving... | |
 | William Parker Cutler - 1888 - 1034 pages
...plays. 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...have also almost lost my taste for pictures or music. Music generally sets me thinking too energetically on what I have been at work on, instead of giving... | |
 | Robert Bruce (Congregational Minister.) - 1888 - 104 pages
...plays. 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...me. I have also almost lost my taste for pictures and music. . . . The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness and may possibly be injurious to the... | |
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