In this mood I first read Dickens, whom I had known before in the reading I had listened to.
This is vague enough and slight enough, I must confess, but I must confess also that I had not even a conception of so much when I first read the "Inferno.
When I first read Pope's Homer, I ambitiously attempted to compose something of the same kind, and achieved as much as one book of a continuation of the Iliad.
I am not sure whether it was in this winter or the next that I first read a history of the French Revolution.
From the winter of 1821, when I first read Bentham, and especially from the commencement of the Westminster Review, I had what might truly be called an object in life; to be a reformer of the world.
Footnote 175: The effect the poem had upon the Earl of Southampton when he first readit will be remembered.
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