...your reputation for accuracy'.103 In his autobiographical recollections, Darwin famously claimed that 'for many years I cannot endure to read a line of poetry', and he admitted that his capacity for aesthetic appreciation extended only to 'moderately good' romantic...

...and Shelley, gave me great delight, and even as a schoolboy I took intense delight in Shakespeare. I have also said that formerly pictures gave me considerable,...years, I cannot endure to read a line of poetry. I have also lost my taste for pictures and music " ("Life," vol. ip 101). So the process was, at all events,...

...autobiography he writes ; "Up to the age of thirty or beyond it, poetry of many kinds gave me great pleasure ; formerly pictures gave me considerable, and music...years I cannot endure to read a line of poetry. I have also almost lost my taste for pictures or music. My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for...

...science and the domestic affections he thought were enough."* In his autobiography Mr. Darwin says: "For many years I cannot endure to read a line of poetry; I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, tmd have found it so intolerably dull that it nanseated me. I have almost lost my taste for pictures...

...delight in Shakespeare, especially in the historical plays. I have also said that pictures formerly gave me considerable, and music very great delight. But now for many years, I cannot endure t" read a line of poetry. I have tried lately to read Shakespeare and found r so intolerably dull that...

...me great pleasure, and even as a school-boy I took intense delight in Shakespeare. 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 Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably...