 Homer were reading of my own election, but my mother forced me, by steady daily toil, to learn long chapters of the Bible by heart, as well as to read it every syllable through, aloud, hard names and all, from Genesis to the Apocalypse, about once a year...  Lives of Great English Writers from Chaucer to Browning - Page 449by Walter Swain Hinchman, Francis Barton Gummere - 1908 - 569 pagesFull view - About this book
 | College student newspapers and periodicals - 1905 - 358 pages
...Scott and Pope's Homer were reading of my own selection, but my mother forced me, by steady daily toil, to learn long chapters of the Bible by heart ; as...pains, and the best part of my taste in literature. From Walter Scott's novels I might easily, as 1 grew older, have fallen to other people's novels ;... | |
 | John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1871 - 286 pages
...Scott and Pope's Homer were reading of my own election, but my mother forced me, by steady dailytoil, to learn long chapters of the Bible by heart; as well...pains, and the best part of my taste in literature. From Walter Scott's novels I might easily, as I grew older, have fallen to other people's novels ;... | |
 | John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1871 - 626 pages
...Scott and Pope's Homer were reading of my own election, but my mother forced me, by steady daily toil, to learn long chapters of the Bible by heart ; as...pains, and the best part of my taste in literature. From Walter Scott's novels I might easily, as I grew older, have fallen to other people's novels ;... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1871 - 784 pages
...his boyhood training : " My mother forced me, by steady, daily toil, to read every syllable through from Genesis to the Apocalypse about once a year ; and to that discipline I owe not only a knowledge of the bonk, which I find occasionally Berviceable, but much of my general... | |
 | John Ruskin - Conduct of life - 1878 - 362 pages
...Scott and Pope's Homer were reading of my own selection, but my mother forced me, by steady daily toil, to learn long chapters of the Bible by heart; as well...pains, and the best part of my taste in literature. From Walter Scott's novels I might easily, as I grew older, have fallen to other people's novels; and... | |
 | Literature - 1878 - 638 pages
...Scott and Pope's Homer were reading of my own election, but my mother forced me, bv steady daily toil, to learn long chapters of the Bible by heart; as well...pains, and the best part of my taste in literature. From Walter Scott's novels I might easily, as I grew older, have fallen to other people's novels ;... | |
 | Literature - 1879 - 360 pages
...my own election, but my mother forced me, by steady daily toil, to learn long chapters of the Hibíe by heart; as well as to read it every syllable through,...general power of taking pains, and the best part of my laste'in literature. From Walter Scott's novels I might easily, as I grew older, have fallen to other... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer.) - 1881 - 244 pages
...Scott and Pope's Homer were reading of my own election, but my mother forced me, by steady daily toil, to learn long chapters of the Bible by heart, as well...pains, and the best part of my taste in literature.' . . . ' For toys, I had a bunch of keys to play with as long as I was capable only of pleasure in what... | |
 | Horace Lorenzo Hastings - 1882 - 254 pages
...manifold advantages. Said the eminent John Ruskin : ' ' Jly mother forced me, by steady, dailv toil, to learn long chapters of the Bible by heart, as well as to read every syllable through from Genesis to the Apocalypse about once a year ; and to that discipline I... | |
 | William Smart - 1883 - 124 pages
...Homer FORS I., 10, a. were reading of my own election, but my mother forced me, by steady daily toil, to learn long chapters of the Bible by heart ; as...that discipline — patient, accurate, and resolute — / owe, not only a knowledge of the book, which I find occasionally serviceable, but much of my... | |
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