 Borrow's experience ; but the first walk, commonplace enough, remains distinct in my memory. I kept no journal, but I could still give the narrative day by day — the sights which I dutifully admired and the very state of my bootlaces. Walking tours...  Studies of a Biographer - Page 153by Leslie Stephen - 1902Full view - About this book
 | 1901 - 886 pages
...worthy to encounter many of such quaint incidents and characters as seem to have been normal in Sorrow's experience; but the first walk, commonplace enough,...who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. All great men of letters have, therefore, been enthusiastic... | |
 | Sir Henry John Newbolt, Charles Hanbury-Williams - 1901 - 638 pages
...worthy to encounter many of such quaint incidents and characters as seem to have been normal in Sorrow's experience ; but the first walk, commonplace enough,...who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. All great men of letters have, therefore, been enthusiastic... | |
 | Edward Fuller Bigelow - 1907 - 190 pages
...mind, it is favourable to the equable and abundant flow of tranquil and half-conscious meditation . . . The walks are the unobtrusive connecting thread of...definite plot with episodes and catastrophes, according I25 m ' !<**.( I/" to the requirements of Aristotle ; and it is naturally interwoven with all the thoughts,... | |
 | Rebecca Solnit - 2001 - 340 pages
...Stephen, who in his "In Praise of Walking" takes up Hazlitt's theme of the musings of the mind, writes, "The walks are the unobtrusive connecting thread of...other memories, and yet each walk is a little drama itself, with a definite plot with episodes and catastrophes, according to the requirements of Aristotle,... | |
 | Sir Henry John Newbolt, Charles Hanbury-Williams - 1901 - 632 pages
...to London to offer it to a British capitalist. He looked wistfully at me as possibly a capitalist in disguise, and I thought it wise to evade a full explanation....who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. All great men of letters have, therefore, been enthusiastic... | |
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