 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
 | David Riddle Breed - 1911 - 470 pages
...pictures formerly gave me considerable and music very great delight, but now for many years I can not endure to read a line of poetry. I have tried lately to read Skakespeare, and have found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. I have also lost my taste... | |
 | Ira Woods Howerth - 1912 - 272 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...also almost lost my taste for pictures or music." l The neglect on the part of the teacher to keep alive a wide range of interests will not only result... | |
 | Cyrus Townsend Brady - 1912 - 280 pages
...from his life will perhaps explain the cause of his rejection of Christianity. The words are his own. I cannot endure to read a line of poetry : I have tried lately to read Shakespeare and have found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. I have also almost lost my taste for pictures... | |
 | 1904 - 1036 pages
...state, showing a complete metamorphosis as the result of the exclusive study of science. He says: "But now for many years I cannot endure to read a line of poetry ; I have tried recently to read Shakespeare and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. I have almost lost... | |
 | John Theodore Merz - 1912 - 658 pages
...me great pleasure. . . . 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 almost lost my taste for pictures or music. ... I retain some taste for fine scenery, but it does... | |
 | Frank Chapman Sharp - 1913 - 318 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... | |
 | Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree - 1913 - 336 pages
...very great, delight. But now for many years I cannot endure to read a line of poetry : I have tried to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. I have also lost my taste for pictures and music. Music generally set me thinking too energetically on what I have... | |
 | Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree - 1913 - 346 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 to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. I have also lost my taste... | |
 | Charles Harris - 1914 - 668 pages
...Darwin says, " It is an accursed evil to a man to become so absorbed in any subject as I am in mine. ... I cannot endure to read a line of poetry : I have...taste for pictures or music. . . . My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts ; but why... | |
 | Lisle March Phillipps - 1915 - 318 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." Neither, he goes on to say, does fine scenery yield him " the exquisite delight which it... | |
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